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2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 2 - Miscellaneous Application Provisions › 15 - Multiple Dwelling Emergency Information.

§  15.  Multiple  dwelling emergency information. 1. In the case of an
  emergency affecting a multiple dwelling, the  owner  or  agent  of  such
  multiple  dwelling  shall  provide emergency service personnel, upon the
  request of such emergency service personnel, including but  not  limited
  to  local  police  and  fire  departments,  with  the  names and contact
  information of all affected residents or  occupants  as  listed  in  the
  lease  of  such multiple dwelling as is required to ascertain the safety
  of such residents or occupants. For the purposes  of  this  section,  an
  emergency shall include but not be limited to fires, gas leaks, building
  collapses,  natural  disasters, acts of terrorism and other events where
  the physical safety of residents must be accounted for  by  ascertaining
  their whereabouts.
2.  The owner or agent of such multiple dwelling shall update the list
  of names and contact information of all affected residents or  occupants
  of  such  multiple  dwelling  upon  the  execution of a new lease, lease
  renewal or lease amendment, or where such owner is an authority as  such
  term  is  defined  in section three of the public housing law, including
  all such  authorities  established  after  the  first  day  of  January,
  nineteen  hundred thirty-nine, upon annual recertification. Specific and
  informed written consent shall be obtained by the owner or agent of  the
  multiple  dwelling  from each occupant or resident each time the list is
  updated and no occupant's or  resident's  name  or  contact  information
  shall  be  included  in  such  list  without their specific and informed
  written consent.  Written notice shall be provided to  the  occupant  or
  resident  about the contact list and shall include but not be limited to
  that such list is maintained by the owner and the  potential  impact  of
  opting-out.
3. Such list of names and contact information shall only be maintained
  for   the   purpose   of  an  emergency  evacuation  and  shall  not  be
  disseminated, used  or  accessed  by  emergency  services  personnel  or
  disseminated,  used  or  accessed by the owner or agent of such multiple
  dwelling for any other purposes.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 28 - Two or More Buildings on Same Lot.

§  28.  Two or more buildings on same lot. 1. If any separate multiple
  dwelling  is  erected   after   April   eighteenth,   nineteen   hundred
  twenty-nine,  upon the rear of a lot which has another multiple dwelling
  on the front or upon the front of  a  lot  which  has  another  multiple
  dwelling on the rear, access shall be provided to the rear dwelling from
  a  street  by  means  of  an  unobstructed court at least twenty feet in
  width.
2. Except as otherwise provided for motor  vehicle  storage  space  in
  section  sixty and for dwellings erected, enlarged, converted or altered
  pursuant to plans filed prior to December  fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-one  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  subdivision one of
  section twenty-six, if any building or dwelling is placed on the rear of
  the same lot with a multiple dwelling or a multiple dwelling  is  placed
  anywhere  on  the  same  lot  with another building, there shall be left
  between the two buildings an open space unoccupied from  the  ground  up
  and  at  least  forty  feet in depth, measured in the direction from one
  building to the other for the first one hundred twenty-five  feet  above
  the curb level, and eighty feet above that point. The provisions of this
  subdivision  requiring  an  open  space  eighty  feet  in  depth between
  portions of buildings in excess of one hundred  twenty-five  feet  above
  the curb level shall not be applied when both such portions are towers.
3. If on the rear of a lot any such building or any portion thereof is
  used  for  business  purposes, a separate passageway at least three feet
  six inches wide and seven feet high shall be provided leading from every
  such open  space  adjacent  to  such  building  to  a  street.  No  such
  passageway shall connect with, go through or form a part of any entrance
  hall  or  other public hall of a multiple dwelling upon the front of the
  lot.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 29 - Painting of Courts and Shafts.

§ 29. Painting of courts and shafts. The exterior surface of all walls
  of  all  courts and shafts of multiple dwellings, except of outer courts
  opening on a street, and courts having  dimensions  of  at  least  fifty
  percent  in excess of the minimum set forth in section twenty-six, shall
  be of a lightcolored brick or stone, or  be  thoroughly  whitewashed  or
  painted  a light color by the owner and be so maintained. Such whitewash
  or paint shall be renewed whenever necessary, as may be  determined  and
  required by the department.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 32 - Alcoves.

§ 32. Alcoves. 1. Every alcove, except a lawful cooking space, opening
  from  any  room in any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth,
  nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be separately lighted and ventilated
  as provided for other rooms in section thirty. It  shall  have  a  floor
  area of at least seventy square feet, a least horizontal dimension of at
  least  seven feet and an opening at least sixty square feet in area into
  the room which it adjoins.
2. Except for cubicles permitted in lodging houses,  no  part  of  any
  room  in  any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen
  hundred twenty-nine, shall be enclosed or subdivided at any time, wholly
  or in part, by a curtain, portiere, fixed or movable partition or  other
  contrivance  or  device, unless each such enclosure or subdivision shall
  contain a separate window as required for a room by section thirty and a
  floor space of at least seventy square feet.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 35 - Entrance Doors and Lights.

§  35.  Entrance doors and lights.  In every multiple dwelling erected
  after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, every door  giving
  access  to  an  entrance hall from outside the dwelling shall contain at
  least five square feet of glazed surface. The width of every  such  door
  shall be at least seventy-five per centum of the required clear width of
  such  entrance  hall  as  provided  in section fifty, except that when a
  series of such entrance doors is provided their  aggregate  clear  width
  shall  not be less than seventy-five per centum of the required width of
  the entrance hall and the clear width of each of  the  doors  separately
  shall  be  at  least  two  feet six inches.   Such a door opening upon a
  street or a court extending to a street may be  of  wood.  Such  a  door
  opening  upon  a yard or upon a court not extending to a street shall be
  fireproof.
The owner of every multiple dwelling  shall  install  and  maintain  a
  light  or lights at or near the outside of the front entrance-way of the
  building which shall in the aggregate provide not less than fifty  watts
  incandescent   illumination  for  a  building  with  a  frontage  up  to
  twenty-two feet and one hundred watts incandescent  illumination  for  a
  building  with  a  frontage  in excess of twenty-two feet, or equivalent
  illumination and shall be kept burning from sunset every day to  sunrise
  on the day following. In the case of a multiple dwelling with a frontage
  in  excess  of twenty-two feet, the front entrance doors of which have a
  combined width in excess of five feet,  there  shall  be  at  least  two
  lights,  one  at  each  side  of  the  entrance  way,  with an aggregate
  illumination of one hundred fifty watts or equivalent  illumination.  In
  enforcing this provision the department shall permit owners to determine
  for   themselves   the   actual  location,  design  and  nature  of  the
  installation of such light or lights to meet  practical,  aesthetic  and
  other  considerations,  so  long as the minimum level of illumination is
  maintained.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 36 - Windows and Skylights for Public Halls and Stairs.

§  36.  Windows and skylights for public halls and stairs. 1. In every
  multiple dwelling  erected  after  April  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred
  twenty-nine, one at least of the required windows provided to light each
  public  hall  or part thereof shall be at least two feet six inches wide
  and five feet high. Every required window in such a hall shall open upon
  a street, court, yard or space above a setback. On the top story of such
  a dwelling a ventilating  skylight  of  the  same  dimensions  shall  be
  accepted in lieu of a window for that story.
2. In every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen
  hundred  twenty-nine,  there  shall  be  in the roof, directly over each
  required  stair,  fire-stair  and  fire-tower,  a  ventilating  skylight
  provided  with  ventilators  having  a  minimum  opening of forty square
  inches or with fixed or movable louvres. The roof of every such skylight
  shall be glazed with plain glass and equipped with suitable wire screens
  above and below. The glazed area of every  such  skylight  shall  be  at
  least  twenty  square feet, except that in a class A dwelling or section
  thereof two stories or less in height and occupied by not more than  two
  families  on each story and in dwellings three stories in height erected
  pursuant to plans filed with the  department  on  or  after  May  first,
  nineteen  hundred fifty-nine and occupied by not more than one family on
  each story, the glazed area of such a skylight need be only nine  square
  feet.  In  lieu of a skylight a window of the same area as prescribed in
  subdivision one may be provided. If such a window is used in lieu  of  a
  skylight,  fixed louvres having a minimum opening of forty square inches
  shall also be installed in or directly adjacent to such window.
3. When any  stair,  fire-stair  or  fire-tower  in  such  a  dwelling
  terminates  at  the level of a setback of an outer wall and such setback
  consists of a terrace at least four feet in width, measured between  the
  inside  of  the  parapet wall and the wall of the building, and at least
  ten feet in length, measured parallel to the wall of the building, there
  may be provided in lieu of such a skylight a fireproof door and assembly
  with the door self-closing giving access from such stair, fire-stair  or
  fire-tower  to  such terrace. Such door shall have a panel at least five
  square feet in area glazed with wire glass and shall  be  equipped  with
  fixed  or  movable  louvres  with  an  opening  of at least forty square
  inches.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 37 - Artificial Hall Lighting.

§  37.  Artificial  hall  lighting.  1. In every multiple dwelling the
  owner shall provide a light or lights, each  of  at  least  sixty  watts
  incandescent  or  twenty  watts  cool  white  fluorescent  or equivalent
  illumination, for every vestibule and  entrance  hall  in  every  public
  hall,  stair,  fire-stair  and  fire-tower on every floor. Said light or
  lights shall be located as prescribed by the department, but,  in  every
  stair,  fire-stair  or  fire-tower,  shall be so located that every part
  thereof shall be lighted.
2. Except as provided in subdivision three, every such light shall  be
  turned  on  by the owner at sunset every day and shall not be turned off
  by the owner until the following sunrise. Every such light shall be kept
  burning daily from sunset until sunrise, but if it becomes  extinguished
  and  remains  so  without the knowledge or consent of the owner he shall
  not be liable. The burden shall be upon the owner to show that the light
  became and remained extinguished without his knowledge or consent.
3. Every light in every fire-stair and fire-tower at every story,  and
  in  every  stair and public hall at every story where there is no window
  opening to the outer air, shall be kept burning continuously except that
  this provision shall not apply to public halls lighted  as  provided  in
  subdivision eleven of section two hundred seventeen.
4. When the natural light in any public hall in a multiple dwelling is
  not  sufficient  to  permit  a person to read the names on a mail box or
  other receptacle for mail, the owner shall install  a  lighting  fixture
  directly over such mail box or receptacle and maintain it in serviceable
  condition,  so  that  a  light  may  be  turned  on  at any time for the
  convenience of tenants or the mail carrier.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 50 - Entrance Halls.

§  50.  Entrance halls. Every entrance hall in every multiple dwelling
  erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine,  shall  be
  at  least four feet in clear width from the entrance to the first stair,
  and beyond that shall be at least  three  feet  eight  inches  in  clear
  width.  If  such  an entrance hall is the only entrance to more than one
  flight of stairs, the required width of such hall shall be increased  in
  every  part,  for each such additional flight of stairs, by one-half the
  width required for one flight of stairs.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 50-C - Rights of Tenants to Operate and Maintain a Lobby Attendant Service.

§  50-c.  Rights  of tenants to operate and maintain a lobby attendant
  service. 1. Tenants of every class A multiple dwelling containing  eight
  or  more  apartments  shall  be entitled to maintain and operate a lobby
  attendant service for such multiple dwelling at any time or  times  when
  an  attendant  hired  or  furnished by the owner thereof shall not be on
  duty.  Such lobby attendants so maintained  by  such  tenants  shall  be
  engaged solely for security purposes and shall perform no acts or duties
  other  than  those  which  shall  be  directly related to the safety and
  security of occupants and visitors to such building while in  and  about
  the  public  portions  thereof  and  no owner shall unreasonably hinder,
  interfere with, obstruct or prohibit the maintenance  and  operation  of
  such  service,  provided that each attendant so engaged by tenants shall
  at all times when on duty be stationed at and  remain  in  the  entrance
  halls  or  public  lobbies of the building adjacent to the main entrance
  thereto, and provided further that no owner of such building shall be in
  any manner liable or responsible for any injury to any such attendant or
  for any damage or injury arising out of or resulting  from  any  act  or
  omission  of any such attendant or for the payment of any wages or other
  compensation  to  such  attendants.  The  lobby  attendants   furnished,
  operated  or  maintained by tenants pursuant to this section may consist
  of or include tenants or other occupants of the  multiple  dwelling  and
  may include either volunteer or paid personnel or a combination thereof.
2.  Any agent, owner or other person who shall unreasonably interfere,
  hinder, obstruct or prohibit the installation, maintenance and operation
  of any such lobby attendant or shall unreasonably  hinder  or  interfere
  with  the  performance  of  the  duties  of such lobby attendant engaged
  pursuant to this section, shall be guilty of a violation with a  maximum
  fine not to exceed fifty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 51 - Shafts, Elevators and Dumbwaiters.

§  51.  Shafts, elevators and dumbwaiters.  1. Every shaft constructed
  after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine,  in  any  multiple
  dwelling  shall  be enclosed on all sides with fireproof walls and shall
  have fireproof doors and assemblies at  all  openings,  with  the  doors
  self-closing.  Dumbwaiter  shafts,  except those adjoining public halls,
  may be constructed with walls of gypsum plaster blocks approved  by  the
  department, at least two inches thick if solid and at least three inches
  thick if hollow.
2.  All dumbwaiter doors constructed after such date shall be fastened
  by an interior lock in the shaft operated and controlled from a  central
  point in the cellar or lowest story if there be no cellar.
3. The doors of every elevator shaft constructed after such date shall
  be  provided  with  an  automatic  device  approved by the department to
  prevent the normal operation of the elevator unless the hoistway door at
  which the car is standing is closed and locked, or unless  all  hoistway
  doors  are  locked  in  a  closed position. Such doors may have a vision
  panel of wire glass not exceeding one square foot in area.
4. Every elevator installed after such date shall be equipped  with  a
  gate  with an automatic device approved by the department to prevent the
  normal operation of such elevator unless such gate is closed.
5. When any elevator or dumbwaiter constructed after such  date  opens
  into more than one stair, elevator vestibule or other public hall on any
  floor,  such elevator or dumbwaiter shall be placed in a separate shaft.
  Not more than three elevators or two dumbwaiters shall ever be placed in
  the same shaft.
6. Every dwelling erected after such date which exceeds six stories or
  sixty feet in height shall  be  equipped  with  one  or  more  passenger
  elevators,  operative  at  all  times,  at  least  one of which shall be
  accessible to every apartment above the entrance story.
7.  In  every  multiple  dwelling,  elevator  shafts,  not  previously
  enclosed  to  the satisfaction of the department, shall be enclosed with
  fireproof walls and shall have fireproof doors and assemblies, with  the
  doors self-closing.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 51-A - Peepholes.

§ 51-a. Peepholes.  In every multiple dwelling the owner shall provide
  and  maintain a peephole in the entrance door of each housing unit. Such
  peephole shall be located, as prescribed by the department, but shall be
  so located as to enable a person in such housing unit to view  from  the
  inside  of  the  entrance  door  any  person  immediately outside of the
  entrance door to such housing unit. The provisions of this section shall
  not apply to  hotels  or  apartment  hotels  or  to  college  or  school
  dormitories.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 51-B - Mirrors in Connection With Self-Service Elevators.

§  51-b.  Mirrors  in  connection  with self-service elevators. In all
  multiple dwellings in which there are one or more self-service passenger
  elevators, there shall, pursuant to such regulations as  the  department
  shall  prescribe,  be  affixed  and  maintained  in each such elevator a
  mirror which will enable persons prior to entering into such elevator to
  view the inside thereof to determine  whether  any  person  is  in  such
  elevator.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 51-C - Rights of Tenants to Install and Maintain Locks in Certain Entrance Doors.

§  51-c.  Rights  of  tenants to install and maintain locks in certain
  entrance doors. Every tenant of a multiple dwelling, except a tenant  of
  a  multiple  dwelling  under  the supervision and control of a municipal
  housing authority, occupied by him, except  as  a  hotel  or  motel,  or
  college  or  school  dormitory,  shall  have  the  right  to install and
  maintain or cause to be installed and maintained in the entrance door of
  his particular housing unit in such multiple dwelling, a lock,  separate
  and  apart  from  any lock installed and maintained by the owner of such
  multiple dwelling, not more than three inches in  circumference,  as  an
  ordinary  incident to his tenancy, provided that a duplicate key to such
  lock shall be supplied to the landlord or his agent  upon  his  request;
  and  every  provision  of any lease hereafter made or entered into which
  reserves or provides for the payment by such tenant  of  any  additional
  rent,  bonus,  fee  or  other charge or any other thing of value for the
  right or privilege of installing and/or maintaining any such lock, shall
  be deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 54 - Cellar Entrance.

§ 54. Cellar entrance. There shall be a direct entrance to the cellar,
  or  to the lowest story if there be no cellar, from the outside of every
  multiple dwelling  erected  after  April  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred
  twenty-nine,  except  that  in  non-fireproof multiple dwellings erected
  after such date which are three stories or less in height  and  occupied
  by  not  more  than two families on any story, any stair leading to such
  cellar or lowest story may be located inside the dwelling provided it is
  enclosed in fireproof walls and fireproof doors and assemblies with  the
  doors self-closing, at both the level of such cellar or lowest story and
  that  of  the  story  above.  No  such  outside entrance existing in any
  multiple dwelling on April  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  twenty-nine,
  shall be obstructed.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 55 - Wainscoting.

§  55.  Wainscoting.  1.  Whenever the surface of walls, partitions or
  ceilings in any  apartment  or  suite  of  rooms  of  any  non-fireproof
  multiple  dwelling  is covered, sheathed or wainscoted wholly or in part
  after April eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  twenty-nine,  such  covering
  shall  be  backed  solidly with plaster. In fireproof multiple dwellings
  such covering shall be backed solidly and continuously  or  filled  with
  incombustible  material.    In  the  case  of  walls  and  partitions in
  fireproof dwellings, such  backing  and  filling  shall  extend  to  the
  fireproof floor construction and in non-fireproof dwellings to the floor
  beams. All such backing and filling shall be fire-stopped.
2.  No wood wainscoting other than fireproofed wood complying with the
  provisions of section fifty-eight shall be erected in any  public  hall,
  stair or shaft of any multiple dwelling.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 57 - Bells; Mail Receptacles.

§  57. Bells; mail receptacles. 1. Whenever bells are installed at the
  entrance to any multiple dwelling  or  at  any  door  of  an  individual
  apartment  in  a  multiple  dwelling, they shall be kept in good working
  order.
2. Whenever the owner of a multiple dwelling has not arranged for mail
  to be delivered to occupants thereof by himself, his agent or employees,
  arrangements shall be made for the delivery of such mail  in  conformity
  with regulations of the post office department.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 58 - Incombustible Materials.

§ 58. Incombustible materials.  Except as may be specifically provided
  otherwise   in  this  chapter,  all  required  incombustible  materials,
  including  fireproofed  wood,   shall   be   capable   of   withstanding
  successfully  standard fire tests as prescribed by the building code. In
  the absence of any such prescribed requirements,  the  department  shall
  have  the  power  to make supplementary regulations relative to standard
  fire tests for incombustible materials.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 59 - Bakeries and Fat Boiling.

§  59.  Bakeries and fat boiling. 1. It shall be unlawful to construct
  or maintain a bakery or a place of business where fat is boiled  in  any
  non-fireproof  multiple  dwelling or upon the lot on which such dwelling
  is situated, unless the ceiling, side walls  and  all  exposed  iron  or
  wooden  beams,  girders  and  columns within the said bakery or business
  place where fat is boiled, are covered with fireproof materials.
2. There shall be no door, window, dumbwaiter shaft or  other  opening
  between  such  a  bakery  or  business place where fat is boiled and any
  other part of the dwelling, except that:
a. There may be access to the public parts of the  dwelling  from  any
  bakery  maintained  therein  if  the  product of such bakery is consumed
  exclusively within such dwelling.
b. In a fireproof hotel where a retail bakery is  maintained  therein,
  there  may be access to the public parts of the hotel, provided the door
  openings leading thereto from such bakery and the  door  assemblies  are
  fireproof  with the doors self-closing, and provided the public parts of
  such bakery premises are protected by one or more sprinkler heads.
c. In bakeries in which no fat is boiled and on the premises of  which
  there  is  no  apparatus  for  fat  boiling,  a dumbwaiter communicating
  between the place where the baking is done and a bakery store above  may
  be  maintained  if  entirely  enclosed in a brick shaft with walls eight
  inches or more in thickness, without any openings  whatever  except  one
  door opening into the bakeshop and one into the bakery store. Every such
  opening shall be provided with a fireproof door and assembly so arranged
  that when one door is open, the other is entirely closed.
3. Every part of a bakery, its plumbing, and the yards and open spaces
  adjoining  shall  be kept in good repair, in sanitary condition and free
  from rodents and vermin.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 61 - Business Uses.

§  61.  Business  uses.  1. Except as may be otherwise provided by any
  local law, ordinance, rule or regulation, business may be  conducted  in
  any multiple dwelling including:
a. Baking and fat-boiling as provided in section fifty-nine,
b.  Storage  of passenger motor vehicles as provided in section sixty,
  and
c. Any manufacturing business in  which  seven  or  more  persons  are
  employed,  or  any  employment  agency as defined in section one hundred
  seventy-one  of  the  general  business  law  other  than  a  non-profit
  employment  agency  in  a  fireproof class B multiple dwelling owned and
  occupied  by  a  non-profit  corporation  organized  for   and   engaged
  exclusively in promoting religious, education or philanthropic purposes,
  provided  that every means of egress from such a business space shall be
  separate and distinct from and without means of communication  with  any
  means of egress from the dwelling portion of the building.
2.  The  number  of  means  of egress from the portion of any multiple
  dwelling where business is conducted shall be in conformity  with  those
  provisions of the local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations covering
  means of egress from buildings in which a like business is conducted.
3. There shall be no manufacturing business conducted above the second
  floor of any non-fireproof multiple dwelling.
4. Where business is conducted in any multiple dwelling erected before
  April  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  twenty-nine,  such business space
  shall also comply with all the following requirements in a manner  which
  the department shall deem adequate to prevent the spread of fire:
a.  Within  or appurtenant to such space, all pipe chases and openings
  around flues shall be fire-stopped, and such flues shall be kept in good
  order and repair.
b. All other openings from such space  into  non-fireproof  shafts  or
  into  entrance  halls shall either be sealed with fire-retarded material
  or equipped with  a  self-closing  fire-retarded  door  or  window  with
  fire-retarded assemblies.
5.  Where business is conducted in any non-fireproof multiple dwelling
  erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, the  walls
  and  ceiling  of  such  business  space  shall  be  fire-retarded.   The
  department may also require the walls and ceilings of any business space
  in any multiple dwelling erected before such date  to  be  fire-retarded
  when  the  department  shall  deem  such  requirement  necessary for the
  protection of the occupants.
6. If the ground story  of  any  non-fireproof  multiple  dwelling  is
  extended  for  business  purposes,  the  underside  of  the roof of such
  extension shall be fire-retarded. If there are fire-escapes  above  such
  extension, its roof shall be fireproof.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 62 - Parapets, Guard Railings and Wires.

§  62.  Parapets,  guard  railings  and wires. 1. Every open area of a
  roof, terrace, areaway, outside stair, stair landing, retaining wall  or
  porch  and every stair window of a multiple dwelling erected after April
  eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be protected in a manner
  approved by the department by a parapet wall or a  guard  railing  three
  feet  six  inches or more in height above the level of such area, or, in
  the case of a stair window,  above  the  level  of  the  floor  adjacent
  thereto,  unless  the  department shall deem that such protection is not
  necessary for safety. In any multiple dwelling where a bulkhead door  or
  scuttle  cover opens within four feet of the edge of the roof, that part
  of the roof which is immediately adjacent to such door or cover shall be
  adequately protected. Such protection shall consist of  guard  rails  or
  parapet  walls  extending at least three feet six inches above the level
  of the roof, and shall be arranged and placed in a  manner  approved  by
  the  department,  but  shall  not  be required for such bulkhead door or
  scuttle  cover  when  the  bulkhead  or  scuttle  on  such  dwelling  is
  immediately  adjacent  to,  and  also on the same level as or on a lower
  level than, the roof of a contiguous building.  This  subdivision  shall
  not  apply  to  the  open  area  of  a  roof of a garden-type maisonette
  dwelling project.
2. All radio, antennae or other wires  over  any  roof  shall,  unless
  otherwise  permitted  by  the department, be kept ten feet or more above
  such roof, and no radio, television antennae or  other  wires  shall  be
  attached  to any fire escape or to any soil or vent line extending above
  the roof.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 63 - Sub-Curb Uses.

§ 63. Sub-curb uses. 1. When any living room is below the level of the
  highest  curb  in  front  of  any  multiple dwelling erected after April
  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  twenty-nine,  in  accordance  with   the
  provisions of paragraph f of subdivision one of section thirty-four, all
  portions of such dwelling below such level shall be fireproof throughout
  except  that  windows  therein  need  not  be  fireproof but shall be of
  incombustible material and may be glazed with plain glass.
2. Except in multiple dwellings which do not  exceed  eighty  feet  in
  height  measured  from the lowest point of any curb on which any part of
  the dwelling faces, at least one means of egress from any  apartment  or
  suite  of  rooms  below the level of the highest curb in front of such a
  dwelling shall lead directly to the street in front of said dwelling and
  at least one such means to the yard  or  street  in  the  rear  of  said
  dwelling.    Every  yard  in  the  rear of every such multiple dwelling,
  regardless of the height of such dwelling, shall at the lowest level  of
  such  yard  be  provided  with  a  fire  passage  in compliance with the
  requirements for such a passage in paragraph f of  subdivision  five  of
  section twenty-six.
3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section the department
  may  require  such  additional means of egress from the said dwelling or
  protection from fire as the department may deem necessary for the safety
  of the occupants.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 65 - Boiler Rooms.

§ 65. Boiler rooms. 1. Except as hereafter provided, in every multiple
  dwelling  erected  after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine,
  which is four stories or more in height the boiler shall be enclosed  in
  a  room  or  space  constructed  with fireproof walls extending from the
  floor  construction  to  the  ceiling  construction,  and  all  openings
  therefrom  to  other  portions  of  the  dwelling shall be equipped with
  fireproof doors and assemblies with the doors self-closing. However,  in
  all  multiple  dwellings,  on  and after January first, nineteen hundred
  sixty-six, a room or space provided with a central heating  plant  shall
  be  completely  enclosed  with incombustible materials having a standard
  fire-resistive rating of at least one hour.
2. In such a dwelling access to a cellar or lowest story  in  which  a
  boiler  is  located  shall not be through any boiler room, nor shall any
  cellar or basement stair or any shaft be installed within a boiler room.
3.  The  department  shall  have  the  power  to  make   supplementary
  regulations relating to boiler or furnace rooms.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 75 - Water Supply.

§  75. Water supply. 1. In every multiple dwelling erected after April
  eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, where space  is  provided  for
  cooking  there  shall  be  in every apartment a proper sink with running
  water and with a two-inch waste and trap.
2.  The  owner  of  every  multiple  dwelling  shall  provide   proper
  appliances to receive and distribute an adequate supply of water, to and
  in  every  apartment  or suite of rooms at all times of the year, during
  all hours. Failure in the  general  supply  of  water  from  the  street
  service  main  shall  not  be  construed as a failure on the part of the
  owner, if suitable appliances to receive and distribute such water  have
  been provided in the dwelling.
3.  For  dwellings three or more stories in height erected on or after
  April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, and  for  all  dwellings
  erected  after  January  first,  nineteen hundred fifty-one, such supply
  shall include both hot and cold water at all times of the  year,  during
  all  hours,  except that hot water service shall not be required by this
  section in a dwelling erected before April eighteenth, nineteen  hundred
  twenty-nine,  if  the  owner  establishes  to  the  satisfaction  of the
  department that such service was not furnished or required  before  such
  date.
4. No multiple dwelling shall be erected unless it is connected with a
  street service water main.
5.   No   required  sink  shall  be  placed  within  any  water-closet
  compartment or within any bathroom containing a water-closet.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 77 - Plumbing and Drainage.

§  77. Plumbing and drainage. 1. In every multiple dwelling all liquid
  or water-borne waste from plumbing fixtures shall be conveyed by a house
  drain and house sewer  to  a  street  sewer  or  to  a  combined  street
  storm-water  main  and  sewer,  unless  no such sewers are available. It
  shall be unlawful to erect a multiple dwelling which is to  be  occupied
  by five families or more unless a connection is made with a street sewer
  or combined street storm-water main and sewer.
2.  For  every  multiple  dwelling  where  neither  kind  of  sewer is
  available, provision shall be made for disposing of such waste as may be
  required by local law.
3. All roofs, terraces, shafts,  courts,  areas  and  yards  in  every
  multiple dwelling shall be properly graded, drained and connected with a
  street storm-water main or combined sewer and street storm-water main so
  that  all  storm  water  may  pass  freely into it, except that where no
  street storm-water main or combined sewer and  street  storm-water  main
  exists,  the  department  may permit the storm water from such areas and
  spaces to drain into a street gutter which leads to a natural channel or
  water course, or into a dry well. When required by the  department,  the
  shafts,  courts, areas and yards shall be properly concreted. Every roof
  shall be so drained that all storm water shall be conveyed therefrom  in
  a  manner  that  will  prevent  dripping to the ground or the causing of
  dampness in walls, ceilings, yards, shafts or  areas.  Nothing  in  this
  section shall be deemed to prevent the turfing over of any yard or court
  space  or  the  planting of shrubs or trees therein when approved by the
  department.
4. The  owner  of  every  multiple  dwelling  or  part  thereof  shall
  thoroughly  cleanse and keep clean at all times, and in good repair, the
  entire plumbing and drainage system including every water-closet, toilet
  and sink and every other plumbing fixture therein.
5. Whenever  the  plumbing,  sewerage  or  drainage  of  any  multiple
  dwelling or part thereof or of the lot on which it is situated is in the
  opinion  of  the department in a condition or in its effect dangerous to
  life or health, the department may order or  cause  any  such  plumbing,
  sewerage  or  drainage  to  be purified, cleansed, disinfected, removed,
  altered, repaired or improved, or, as provided in section three  hundred
  nine,  take  such  other  action as it may deem necessary to remove such
  danger to life or health.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 78 - Repairs.

§  78.  Repairs.  1.  Every  multiple  dwelling, including its roof or
  roofs, and every part thereof and the lot upon  which  it  is  situated,
  shall  be  kept  in  good  repair.  The  owner  shall be responsible for
  compliance with the provisions of this  section;  but  the  tenant  also
  shall  be  liable  if  a  violation  is  caused  by  his own wilful act,
  assistance or negligence  or  that  of  any  member  of  his  family  or
  household  or  his guest. Any such persons who shall wilfully violate or
  assist in violating any provision of this section shall also jointly and
  severally be subject to the civil penalties provided  in  section  three
  hundred four.
2.  Whenever,  the  light,  ventilation,  or any matter or thing in or
  about a multiple dwelling or part thereof, or in or  about  the  lot  on
  which it is situated, is in the opinion of the department in a condition
  or  in  its effect dangerous to life or health, the department may order
  or cause any such light, ventilation, matter or thing to be repaired  or
  improved  or, as provided in section three hundred nine, take such other
  action as it may deem necessary to remove such danger to life or health.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 80 - Cleanliness.

§  80.  Cleanliness.  1.  The owner shall keep all and every part of a
  multiple dwelling, the lot on which  it  is  situated,  and  the  roofs,
  yards,  courts, passages, areas or alleys appurtenant thereto, clean and
  free from  vermin,  dirt,  filth,  garbage  or  other  thing  or  matter
  dangerous to life or health.
2.  The  owner  of  every  multiple  dwelling  or  part  thereof shall
  thoroughly cleanse and keep clean at all times, to the  satisfaction  of
  the  department,  every  public or service part thereof, including every
  room, passage, stair, floor, window, door, wall,  ceiling,  water-closet
  or  toilet  compartment, cesspool, drain, hall and cellar in such public
  or service part.
3. All carpets and rugs which are permitted in any public  part  of  a
  multiple  dwelling  shall  be taken up and cleaned by the owner at least
  once a year or as much oftener as the department shall deem necessary.
4. The interior surfaces of  walls  throughout  every  part  of  every
  multiple  dwelling, whether in public or in tenant-occupied parts, shall
  be painted or papered and the ceilings  kalsomined  or  painted  by  the
  owner.  The  walls  and  ceilings  shall  be  rekalsomined, repapered or
  repainted by the owner whenever necessary to keep the said surfaces in a
  sanitary condition. No wall paper shall be placed upon such  a  wall  or
  ceiling  surface  unless  all existing wall paper shall be first removed
  therefrom and such wall or ceiling thoroughly cleaned and repaired.
5. Any tenant shall be punishable as provided in section three hundred
  four for the existence of conditions in violation of the  provisions  of
  this chapter within his apartment to the extent that such conditions are
  caused  by him, by members of his family or by his guests, and are under
  his control; but this provision shall not be construed  to  relieve  the
  owner  of  any  liability  or  duty  under  this section, except where a
  violation is caused and continued solely by the tenant  or  those  under
  his control.
6.  Every  dwelling  erected  after  January  first,  nineteen hundred
  forty-seven, shall be so constructed as to be rat-proof. The agency of a
  city authorized by law to make rules  supplemental  to  laws  regulating
  construction,  maintenance,  use  and  area  of buildings shall have the
  power to make rules and regulations to supplement  the  requirements  of
  this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 81 - Receptacles for Waste Matter.

§  81.  Receptacles  for  waste matter. 1. The owner of every multiple
  dwelling shall provide proper and suitable conveniences  or  receptacles
  for  ashes,  rubbish,  garbage,  refuse and other waste matter and shall
  arrange for the removal of such waste matter daily.
2. No person shall place ashes,  garbage,  rubbish,  filth,  urine  or
  fecal  matter  in  any place in a multiple dwelling other than the place
  provided therefor, or keep any such matter in his apartment or upon  his
  premises  such  length  of  time  as  to create a nuisance as defined in
  section three hundred nine.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 82 - Privacy.

§  82.  Privacy.  In  every  apartment of three or more rooms in every
  class A multiple  dwelling  erected  after  April  eighteenth,  nineteen
  hundred  twenty-nine,  there  shall  be  access to every living room and
  bedroom without passing through any bedroom.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 83 - Janitor or Housekeeper.

§  83.  Janitor  or  housekeeper.  Whenever there are thirteen or more
  families occupying any multiple dwelling and the owner does  not  reside
  therein,  there  shall  be  a  janitor, housekeeper or some other person
  responsible on behalf of the owner who shall reside in said dwelling, or
  within a dwelling located within a distance of  two  hundred  feet  from
  said  dwelling,  and have charge of such dwelling, except that where two
  or three multiple dwellings are connected  or  adjoining,  one  resident
  janitor  shall  be  sufficient. In every garden-type maisonette dwelling
  project erected after April  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-four,
  adequate personnel shall be provided for the lawful care and maintenance
  of such project.
2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 3 - Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 84 - Construction Standards for the Control of Noise.

§  84.  Construction  standards for the control of noise. On or before
  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-nine,  the  department   shall
  formulate,  adopt,  promulgate  and  thereafter  from time to time amend
  standards of sound retardation for the walls, partitions and floors  and
  ceilings  between  apartments  and  between apartments and public spaces
  situated therein based on the direct measurement of  sound  transmission
  loss  determined  in  decibels  for various frequencies or in accordance
  with the ASTM sound transmission class system or in accordance with such
  other recognized method or  system  for  measuring  reduction  of  sound
  transmission  as  the  department  may  determine to be appropriate. Any
  construction of a  multiple  dwelling  commenced  after  January  first,
  nineteen  hundred  seventy  shall  comply with the standards promulgated
  pursuant to this section in effect at the time of commencement  of  such
  construction.