'I'd never held a screwdriver in my life,' Sahar Yona says of the day she fell into locksmithing. She was unemployed and interviewing to answer phones at a locksmith's office when the person across the desk suggested she try the trade instead.
Five years and about $7,000 (£5,250) in tools later, the 27-year-old runs her own around-the-clock locksmith business in New York City and says she now fields as many as 60 jobs a week. She founded Locksmith Girl of NYC, a residential and commercial operation she launched under its current name in July 2025, and orders her days around being reachable. To catch overnight calls, Yona keeps two phones and a laptop turned up loud beside her bed because every job counts.
