Cityside Locksmith

Cityside Locksmith is a one-person, mobile operation built around Brian — his name shows up in review after review, whether he's rekeying a new-to-them Somerville condo or wiring up a keyless deadbolt on a 100-plus-year-old home. The company says it's been running as a mobile locksmith since 2011, serving towns stretching from Arlington and Cambridge out to Lawrence. On Google the shop holds a 4.8-star average across 46 ratings, and the pattern across nearly twenty reviews going back to 2021 is punctuality and straight talk on price. In a 2021 review, one customer described Brian calling ahead when he was running half an hour late, then finishing the job quickly once he arrived with everything already in the truck; more recent reviews describe the same pattern — arriving exactly when he said he would. A 2026 Reddit thread backs this up, describing the business as owner-operated and citing work on both a 1910-era home's original locks and a set of storage-shed locks. The jobs lean urgent. In a 2024 review, a customer described a car lock damaged amid a string of Somerville auto break-ins, and a 2022 review described a 25-minute response after a partner locked keys in a trunk late at night; a 2025 review was quoted $135 for a studio lockout, less than the customer said other locksmiths had charged. Brian has also handled planned work — keypad deadbolts, rekeying a whole condo building, restructuring a confusing set of front-door locks. One thing worth asking about directly: a 2024 review described calling the number on the website five times over an hour during a lockout and getting no answer, despite the company advertising round-the-clock availability. Cityside is a solid call for a straightforward lock job — a rekey, a lockout, a car key replacement — especially on a property with older hardware Brian will know how to work with. Given the single-operator setup, it's worth confirming current response times up front if timing is critical.