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2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 52 - Public Halls and Stairs.

§ 52. Public halls and stairs. The walls and ceiling of every entrance
  hall,  stair hall or other public hall, every hall or passage not within
  an apartment or suite of rooms, every dumbwaiter, elevator,  and,  every
  other  shaft,  including  stairs,  connecting  more  than two successive
  stories, shall be sealed off from every other portion  of  the  dwelling
  with fire-retarded materials, or, in lieu thereof, except in the case of
  elevator  shafts,  shall be equipped with an automatic sprinkler system.
  Except as provided in subdivision five of  section  fifty-five,  nothing
  contained in this article shall be deemed to exempt an interior required
  means  of  egress  from  the  enclosure  requirements  or  the equipment
  provided for in this section.  A  fire-detecting  system  shall  not  be
  acceptable for any of the requirements of this section.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 53 - Storage Compartments.

§  53.  Storage  compartments.  There  shall be one or more completely
  enclosed compartments for the storage of mattresses, furniture,  paints,
  floor   wax,   linens,  brooms,  mops  and  other  such  inflammable  or
  combustible paraphernalia incidental to the occupancy and maintenance of
  the dwelling, and such paraphernalia shall be stored in no other portion
  of such dwelling. Such compartments shall be completely protected by  an
  automatic  sprinkler system or a fire-detecting system. Closets which do
  not exceed one hundred square feet in floor area may  be  used  for  the
  temporary  storage  of such paraphernalia, except mattresses, furniture,
  paints  and  insecticides  containing  inflammable  materials  and   are
  excluded  from  the  requirements  of  this  section. Where such storage
  compartments  are  located  at  least  thirty  feet  distant  from  such
  dwelling, no sprinklers or fire-detecting system shall be required.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 54 - Kitchens and Pantries.

§  54.  Kitchens  and  pantries.  All  kitchens  and  pantries serving
  restaurants or dining rooms in a non-fireproof transient dwelling  shall
  be  equipped  with  an  automatic  sprinkler  system or a fire-detecting
  system. Where such kitchens and pantries are  located  at  least  thirty
  feet  distant  from such dwelling, no sprinkler or fire-detecting system
  shall be required.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 56 - Exit and Directional Signs.

§  56.  Exit  and  directional  signs.  Every means of egress shall be
  indicated by a sign reading "EXIT" in red letters at least eight  inches
  high  on  a  white  background,  or vice versa, illuminated at all times
  during the day and night by a red light of at least twenty-five watts or
  equivalent illumination.  Such light shall be maintained  in  a  keyless
  socket.  On  all  stories  where  doors,  openings or passageways giving
  access to any means of egress are not visible from all portions of  such
  stories, directional signs shall be maintained in conspicuous locations,
  indicating in red on a white background, or vice versa, the direction of
  travel  to  the  nearest  means  of  egress.  At least one sign shall be
  visible from the doorway of each room or suite of rooms. Existing  signs
  and  illumination  may be accepted if, in the opinion of the department,
  such existing signs and illumination serve the  intent  and  purpose  of
  this  section.   Supplementary stairs, fire-stairs or fire-escapes which
  do not lead to the entrance story or to a street or to a yard or  court,
  leading  to  a  street,  shall  be clearly marked "NOT AN EXIT" in black
  letters at least four inches high on a yellow  background,  and  at  the
  termination  of  each such stair, fire-stair or fire-escape, there shall
  be a directional sign indicating the nearest means of egress leading  to
  a  street.  All signs shall be constructed, located and illuminated in a
  manner satisfactory to the department.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 56-A - Posting of Means of Egress in Hotels and Motels.

§ 56-a. Posting of means of egress in hotels and motels. On each floor
  of  every  hotel  or motel having two or more stories where the rooms or
  suites are connected by an interior hallway there  shall  be  posted  by
  each  stairway,  elevator or other means of egress a printed scale floor
  plan of the particular story, which shall  show  all  means  of  egress,
  clearly  labeling  those to be used in case of fire. Such signs shall be
  posted in other conspicuous areas throughout the  building.  Said  floor
  plan  shall  be  no smaller than eight inches by ten inches and shall be
  posted in such a manner that it cannot be readily removed.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 57 - Vertical and Horizontal Openings.

§  57.  Vertical  and  horizontal  openings.  In  order to prevent the
  vertical and horizontal spread of fire, smoke and gases,  it  shall,  in
  addition to other applicable provisions of this article, be necessary to
  comply with the requirements of this section.
1.  All  doors opening from shafts, stair halls or stairs and the door
  assemblies shall  be  fire-retarded  with  the  doors  self-closing  and
  without  transoms  or  any other opening. Except in the case of elevator
  shafts, such shafts, stair halls  or  stairs  may  be  protected  by  an
  automatic sprinkler system in lieu of fire retarding.
2.  All  other doors opening upon entrance halls or other public halls
  or corridors in every part of the dwelling shall be self-closing, except
  where such  dwelling  is  equipped  throughout  with  an  approved  type
  automatic  sprinkler  or  fire-detecting system. It shall be unlawful to
  attach to or maintain on or about any door required to  be  self-closing
  any device which prevents the self-closing of such door.
3.  Every existing interior glazed sash, window or opening, other than
  a door, or a fireproof sash, window or opening glazed with  wire  glass,
  in  any  partition  forming  required enclosures around stairs or shafts
  shall be removed and the openings closed up and fire-retarded.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 58 - Cellar Ceiling.

§ 58. Cellar ceiling. The ceiling of the cellar shall be fire-retarded
  or  be  equipped  with a sprinkler system, or the entire cellar shall be
  equipped with a fire-detecting system. Any room within the  dwelling  in
  which  a  boiler  or furnace is used for generating heat or hot water to
  service the dwelling shall be enclosed with fire-retarded partitions and
  every door opening therefrom and its assembly shall  be  fireproof  with
  the   door  self-closing.  The  ceiling  of  such  room  shall  also  be
  fire-retarded or be equipped with a sprinkler system, or the room  shall
  be equipped with a fire-detecting system.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 59 - Ventilation for Shafts.

§  59.  Ventilation for shafts. 1. There shall be provided in the roof
  directly over each stair, fire-stair, dumbwaiter,  elevator  or  similar
  shaft  which  extends  to  or  within one story of a roof, a ventilating
  metal skylight of the cross-sectional area of such shaft. Such  skylight
  need  not, however, exceed twenty square feet in area. Where an existing
  skylight is smaller than the  dimensions  or  area  prescribed  in  this
  subdivision,  no  structural change shall be required, but a ventilating
  metal skylight fitting  the  existing  opening  in  the  roof  shall  be
  sufficient.  Every skylight shall be glazed with plain glass in the roof
  of such skylight and shall be equipped with metal screens over and under
  the skylight. In lieu of a skylight a window of the same area at the top
  story shall be accepted.
2.  Whenever  there  is a flooring of solid construction at the top of
  any enclosed stair, fire-stair,  elevator  or  similar  shaft,  openings
  shall  be left near the top of such shaft for ventilation. Such openings
  shall provide  at  least  two  hundred  eighty-eight  square  inches  of
  unobstructed  ventilation  and shall communicate directly with the outer
  air, or be otherwise ventilated in accordance with the provisions of the
  local building code.
3. It  shall  be  unlawful  to  discharge  into  any  such  shaft  any
  inflammable  or  volatile  gases, liquids or other thing or matter which
  would endanger life.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 60 - Bulkheads and Scuttles.

§  60.  Bulkheads  and  scuttles.  1.  There shall be a fire-resistive
  bulkhead in the roof over, or connecting directly by means of  a  public
  hall  with  the  highest portion of every stair extending to the highest
  story below the main roof.  Stairs leading to such  bulkheads  shall  be
  fire-retarded  as required for other public stairs and shall have at the
  top fireproof doors and assemblies  with  the  doors  self-closing.  All
  stairs to required bulkheads shall be provided with a guide or handrail.
  A  scuttle so constructed as to be readily opened may be substituted for
  a bulkhead in dwellings not exceeding three stories and  a  basement  in
  height.  Such  scuttle  shall be at least twenty-one inches in width and
  twenty-eight inches in length, covered on the  outside  with  metal  and
  provided with a stationary iron or steel ladder leading thereto.
2. When a dwelling has a pitched or sloping roof with a pitch or slope
  of more than fifteen degrees, no bulkhead or scuttle, or stair or ladder
  leading thereto shall be required.
3.  A  bulkhead  door or scuttle shall never be locked with a key, but
  may be fastened on the inside with movable  rustproof  bolts  or  hooks.
  All key locks shall be removed.
4.  Bulkheads  and  stairs  leading  thereto  existing  on July first,
  nineteen hundred fifty-two, shall be permitted provided the stairs  have
  such angle of ascent and treads of such dimensions as may be approved by
  the department.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 61 - Fire Alarm System; Watchman.

§   61.  Fire  alarm  system;  watchman.  1.  Except  as  provided  in
  subdivision three, in every transient dwelling containing thirty or more
  sleeping rooms for transient occupancy, there shall be an interior  fire
  alarm system.
2.  Except  as  provided  in  subdivision  three,  in  every fireproof
  transient dwelling containing fifty or more sleeping rooms for transient
  occupants, and in  every  non-fireproof  transient  dwelling  containing
  thirty  or  more such rooms, when thirty-five per centum or more of such
  rooms are occupied, there shall be, in addition  to  the  interior  fire
  alarm  system,  one  or  more watchmen or clerks, employed by the owner,
  whose duty it shall be  to  visit  every  portion  of  the  dwelling  at
  frequent  regular  intervals  between the hours of eleven p.m. and seven
  a.m. for the purpose of detecting fire or other sources  of  danger  and
  giving  immediate and timely warning thereof to all the occupants. There
  shall be provided a watchman's clock system or other  device  to  record
  the movement of such watchman.
3.  Where  throughout  such  dwelling  a  fire-detecting system, or an
  approved type automatic sprinkler system is provided  which  actuates  a
  fire  alarm  by  the  flow  of  water  through such system so as to give
  warning to all the occupants of the dwelling,  and  is  installed  in  a
  manner  satisfactory  to  the  department  in  conformity with rules and
  regulations adopted by the commission, the  provisions  of  subdivisions
  one and two shall not be applicable.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions.

§ 62. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. An existing sprinkler installation,
  fire  alarm,  watchman's  clock  or fire-detecting system which has been
  approved or accepted by the department having jurisdiction and installed
  before July first, nineteen hundred fifty-two, in conformity with  rules
  and  regulations  adopted  by the commission, shall, after inspection by
  the said department, be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements
  of this chapter.
2. Where a sprinkler system is required by this article,  such  system
  shall  be  constructed  to  fuse  at  a  temperature not higher than one
  hundred sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit, spaced so as to protect the  area
  which is required to be sprinklered.
3.  In  furnace, boiler, laundry rooms and other parts of the dwelling
  where high temperature usually prevails, sprinkler heads may fuse  at  a
  higher  temperature.  Where  such rooms are located at least thirty feet
  distant from such dwelling, no sprinklers shall be required.
4. Except as otherwise provided in sections fifty-two and  fifty-five,
  an  approved  fire-detecting  system  shall  be  accepted as meeting any
  requirement for a sprinkler system under this article.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 63 - Two Story Transient Dwellings.

§  63.  Two story transient dwellings. 1. All nursing and convalescent
  homes, homes for the aged, and boarding and nursery schools, two stories
  in height, shall conform with all of the provisions of article four.
2. Except as provided in subdivision one of  this  section,  the  only
  provisions  of  article  four  which  shall apply to two story transient
  dwellings in existence on July first, nineteen hundred fifty-two,  shall
  be sections sixty, sixty-one, sixty-five, title two and the following:
a.  Every  such  transient  dwelling  shall have at least two means of
  egress. The first means of egress shall be by an interior  stair  closed
  off  at  the  top  or  bottom. The second means of egress shall be by an
  additional interior stair closed off at the top  or  bottom  or  a  fire
  stair  or fire escape. A second means of egress shall not be required in
  a dwelling containing less than thirty sleeping rooms if the sill of the
  second story window does not exceed fourteen  feet  in  vertical  height
  above  the  ground  or  other  safe landing place immediately below such
  window sill.
b. Where it is impractical in such transient dwellings  to  provide  a
  second  required  means  of  egress,  the  department may order, in lieu
  thereof, additional alterations to the first  means  of  egress  and  to
  shafts, stairs and other vertical openings to safeguard the occupants of
  the dwelling, may require the public halls providing access to the first
  means  of  egress  to  be  equipped  on  both  stories with an automatic
  sprinkler system, and may also require automatic sprinkler heads in  the
  stair which serves as the only means of egress.
c.  Where  two means of egress are required by this section and one is
  an ornamental stair, the provision for closing off the stair at  top  or
  bottom shall not be applicable to the ornamental stair.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 64 - One Story Transient Dwellings.

§  64.  One  story transient dwellings. The only provisions of article
  four which shall apply to one story transient dwellings in existence  on
  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-two,  shall  be  sections  sixty,
  sixty-one, sixty-five and title two.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 4 - Hotels and Similar Dwellings › Title 2 - Sanitation › 71 - Water Closet and Bath Accommodations.

§  71.  Water  closet  and  bath accommodations. Every water closet or
  bathroom installed in  transient  dwellings  on  or  after  July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  fifty-two, and in transient dwellings converted on or
  after such date shall be constructed in conformity with  the  provisions
  of section one hundred seventy-one.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 101 - Height and Bulk.

§  101.  Height  and  bulk.  The  height  and bulk of any new multiple
  dwelling shall be in accordance with the provisions  of  any  applicable
  local law, ordinance, resolution, code provision or regulation.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 102 - Yards and Courts.

§  102. Yards and courts. Yards and courts in connection with any such
  multiple dwelling shall be in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  any
  applicable   local   law,   ordinance,  resolution,  code  provision  or
  regulation.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 103 - Lighting and Ventilation of Rooms.

§ 103. Lighting and ventilation of rooms. 1. Except as in this section
  and  in  sections one hundred five, one hundred seventy-one and articles
  three and four otherwise expressly provided,  every  living  room  shall
  have  at  least one window opening directly upon a street, yard or court
  upon the same lot as that occupied by the dwelling in which such room is
  situated.
2. Nothing in this section  shall  be  construed  as  prohibiting  the
  windows  of  any  room  from  opening  on  a  partially-enclosed terrace
  provided such terrace opens directly to a street, yard or court and  the
  area  of  the  front of the terrace which is open to the outer air is at
  least equal to seventy-five per centum of the floor surface area of  the
  terrace.
3.  No  required window shall open upon any offset or recess less than
  six feet in  width  except  a  window  of  a  water-closet  compartment,
  bathroom, or stair or of a kitchenette.
4.  The  total  window  area  in  every  living room shall be at least
  one-tenth of the floor surface area of such room.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 104 - Size of Rooms.

§  104.  Size of rooms.   1. Every living room, except kitchens, shall
  contain at least eighty square feet of floor space and shall be not less
  than eight feet in its least horizontal  dimension.  However,  in  every
  permanently  occupied  dwelling,  one  living  room in each apartment or
  suite shall have at least one hundred thirty-two square  feet  of  floor
  space.
2. Every living room shall be at least seven and a half feet high, the
  measurements  in  all  cases  to be taken from the finished floor to the
  finished underside of the ceiling. Beams crossing  the  ceiling  may  be
  disregarded  if  none  of  them  extends below the ceiling more than six
  inches.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 105 - Cooking Spaces.

§  105. Cooking spaces.  1. Every space which is intended, arranged or
  designed for cooking or warming of food shall be  either  a  kitchen  or
  kitchenette.
2.   A   kitchen  or  kitchenette  shall  be  unlawful  unless  it  is
  constructed, arranged and maintained in compliance  with  the  following
  applicable provisions:
a.  The  ceiling  and  walls,  exclusive of doors, of all kitchenettes
  shall be fire-retarded or in lieu thereof such space shall  be  equipped
  with  one  or  more  sprinkler heads to fuse at a temperature not higher
  than  two  hundred  twelve  degrees  Fahrenheit.  Such  heads  shall  be
  connected to the water supply through a pipe of adequate size.
b.   In  every  kitchen  and  kitchenette,  all  combustible  material
  immediately underneath or within one foot  of  any  apparatus  used  for
  cooking  or  warming  of  food  shall  be  fire-retarded or covered with
  fire-resistive material.
c. Every kitchenette shall be provided with a window  opening  upon  a
  street or upon a yard, court or shaft. Such window shall be at least one
  foot  wide,  have  a  total area of at least three square feet and be at
  least ten per centum of the superficial floor area of such  kitchenette.
  In  lieu  of  such  window,  in  such  kitchenette it shall be lawful to
  install a system of mechanical or  gravity  ventilation  to  provide  at
  least six changes per hour of the air volume of such kitchenette.
d.  Every  kitchenette  may be equipped with a door or doors, provided
  the lower portion of each such door has a  metal  grille  containing  at
  least  forty-eight square inches of clear openings or, in lieu of such a
  grille, there are two clear open spaces, each of  at  least  twenty-four
  square  inches,  one between the floor and each such door, and the other
  between the top of each such door and the head jamb.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 106 - Rooms in Cellars.

§  106.  Rooms  in  cellars. It shall be unlawful to occupy all or any
  part of a cellar for sleeping purposes, but all or part of  such  cellar
  may  be  used for storage or other general utility purposes accessory to
  the occupancy, use or management of the dwelling.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 107 - Entrance Doors.

§  107.  Entrance doors.  Every door giving access to an entrance hall
  from outside the dwelling shall contain at least  five  square  feet  of
  glazed surface. Every such door shall open outwardly. The width of every
  such  door  shall  be  at  least forty-four inches. However, when double
  doors are provided each of the doors separately shall be  at  least  two
  feet six inches.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 1 - Light and Air › 108 - Windows and Skylights for Public Halls and Stairs.

§  108. Windows and skylights for public halls and stairs. 1.  Where a
  window or windows are required to light a public hall or  part  thereof,
  at  least one of such windows shall be not less than two feet six inches
  wide and five feet high. Every required window in such a hall shall open
  upon a street, yard or court. 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.  There  shall be in the roof, directly over each required stair and
  fire-stair a ventilating skylight provided with louvres  or  ventilators
  having  a  minimum  open  area of forty square inches. The roof of every
  such skylight shall  be  glazed  with  plain  glass  and  equipped  with
  suitable  metal  screens  above and below. The glazed area of every such
  skylight shall be at least twenty square feet, except  that  in  such  a
  dwelling  or  section  thereof  two stories or less in height 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 dwelling and at least ten
  feet in length, measured parallel to the wall of the dwelling, there may
  be provided in lieu of such skylight a fireproof door and assembly  with
  the  door  self-closing  giving  access from such stair or fire-stair 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 louvres having a
  minimum open area of forty square inches.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 130 - Entrance Halls.

§  130.  Entrance  halls.  Every entrance hall shall be at least three
  feet eight inches in clear width from the entrance to the  first  stair.
  If  such an entrance hall is the only entrance to more than one required
  stairs, the 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 › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 131 - Shafts, Elevators and Dumbwaiters.

§  131.  Shafts,  elevators  and  dumbwaiters.  Every  shaft  shall be
  enclosed on all sides with fireproof  walls  and  shall  have  fireproof
  doors  and  assemblies at all openings, with the doors self-closing. Not
  more than three elevators or dumbwaiters shall ever  be  placed  in  the
  same  shaft.  All dumbwaiter doors shall be fastened by an interior lock
  in the shaft operated and controlled from a central point. The doors  of
  every  elevator  shaft  shall  be  provided  with an automatic device 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,  except  for
  power-operated sliding doors, shall have a vision panel  of  wire  glass
  not  exceeding one square foot in area. Every elevator shall be equipped
  with a gate or door with an  automatic  device  to  prevent  the  normal
  operation of such elevator unless such gate or door is closed.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 132 - Stairs.

§  132. Stairs. Every interior and exterior stair and fire-stair shall
  be provided with proper balustrades and handrails. Every such stair  and
  fire-stair  three  feet  eight inches or more in width shall be provided
  with a handrail on each side. Each tread, exclusive of nosing, shall  be
  not less than nine and one-half inches wide; each riser shall not exceed
  seven  and three-quarter inches in height; and the product of the number
  of inches in the width of the tread and the  number  of  inches  in  the
  height  of  the  riser  shall  be  at  least  seventy  and  at  the most
  seventy-five. Winding stairs shall be unlawful in any public part of the
  dwelling.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 133 - Fire-Escapes.

§  133. Fire-escapes. 1. Every fire-escape shall be located, arranged,
  constructed and maintained in accordance with the following provisions:
a. Each fire-escape shall be accessible to one or more exterior  doors
  or windows opening from the room, apartment or suite, and such window or
  door shall be two feet or more in clear width and two feet six inches or
  more  in clear height. The sill of any such window shall be within three
  feet of the floor.
b. Access to any fire-escape shall not be through any  public  toilet,
  or  be  obstructed by any bathroom fixture, kitchen fixture, sink, or in
  any other way. Bars, grilles, gates or other obstructing devices on  any
  window  or  door  giving access to any fire-escape shall be unlawful.  A
  required fire-escape shall never include a window of  a  stair  hall  or
  public stairs.
c.  Every  fire-escape  shall  be  constructed  of  open balconies and
  stairways of incombustible material and designed to support a  uniformly
  distributed live load of at least eighty pounds per square foot. The use
  of cast iron in the construction of fire-escapes shall be unlawful.
d.  No  fire-escape shall be removed from or erected upon any multiple
  dwelling without a permit from the department. No fire-escape  shall  be
  removed  or  replaced unless a secondary means of egress is available or
  provided in lieu thereof.
2. a. Every balcony for a fire-escape shall be three feet or  more  in
  clear width.
b.  Every  lowest  balcony  more  than  five feet above a safe landing
  beneath shall have  a  drop  ladder  fifteen  inches  in  width  and  of
  sufficient  length to reach such landing. Such ladder shall be held in a
  proper position at all  times,  and,  unless  properly  counterbalanced,
  shall  be  placed in guides so that it can be lowered easily. The lowest
  balcony shall not be more than fourteen feet above the  ground  or  safe
  landing place beneath.
c. Every stairway shall be placed at an angle of sixty degrees or less
  with  steps at least six inches in width and twenty inches in length and
  with a maximum rise of nine inches. The opening in any balcony for  such
  a stairway shall be at least twenty-one by twenty-eight inches.
d. A stairway shall be provided from every balcony on the top story to
  the  roof  of a multiple dwelling three or more stories in height except
  where the roof is sloped or pitched in excess of fifteen degrees.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 134 - Cellar Entrance.

§  134.  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, except that 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.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 136 - Motor Vehicle Storage.

§  136.  Motor vehicle storage. A space or a structure may be provided
  and maintained in any multiple dwelling or upon the premises thereof for
  the storage of passenger motor vehicles but only with a  written  permit
  therefor  from  the  department  and in accordance with every applicable
  local law, ordinance, resolution, code provision or regulation  and  the
  rules and regulations of the commission.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 137 - Business Uses.

§  137.  Business  uses. When business is conducted in a non-fireproof
  multiple dwelling, the ceiling of the business space  shall  be  covered
  with fire-resistive materials or be equipped with a sprinkler system.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 138 - Parapets and Guard Railings.

§  138.  Parapets  and  guard railings. Except as hereinafter provided
  every open area of a roof, terrace, areaway,  outside  stair,  retaining
  wall  or porch shall be protected by a parapet wall, a guard railing, or
  both, extending three feet six inches or more in height above the  level
  of  such area or, in the case of a stair landing, stair window or window
  in a public hall, above the level of  the  floor  adjacent  thereto.  In
  dwellings  two  stories  in  height, it shall be sufficient if the guard
  railing is erected at least five feet  distant  from  and  encloses  any
  required bulkhead or scuttle opening to the roof. This section shall not
  apply to dwellings one story in height.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety › 139 - Boiler Rooms.

§  139.  Boiler  rooms.   In every dwelling the boiler or furnace of a
  central heating plant shall be enclosed in a fireproof room or space and
  all openings therefrom to  other  portions  of  the  dwelling  shall  be
  equipped   with   fireproof   doors   and   assemblies  with  the  doors
  self-closing, except that in any  dwelling  three  stories  or  less  in
  height, such room or space may in the alternative be enclosed with walls
  or  partitions  constructed  of fire-resistive materials and the ceiling
  fire retarded.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 170 - Water Supply.

§  170.  Water  supply.   The owner shall provide proper appliances to
  receive and distribute in such dwelling  an  adequate  supply  of  water
  obtained  from  the public water supply system or from a source approved
  by the public health officer having jurisdiction at all times  when  the
  building  is  occupied  and  during  all hours and hot water between six
  o'clock in the morning and midnight.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 171 - Water-Closet and Bath Accommodations.

§  171.  Water-closet  and  bath  accommodations.    1. Every dwelling
  arranged for permanent occupancy shall contain a water-closet  in  every
  apartment.
2.  The  floor  of  every compartment, bathroom or general toilet room
  shall be made waterproof and such waterproofing shall extend six  inches
  or  more  above the floor so that the floor can be washed or flushed out
  without leaking. No plumbing  or  plumbing  fixture  shall  be  enclosed
  wholly or in part with woodwork.
3.  Water-closets  may  be  placed  together  in a general toilet room
  provided  such  water-closets  are  supplementary  to  the  water-closet
  accommodations  required  for  the  exclusive  use  of  tenants  of  the
  dwelling, or are  solely  for  the  use  of  business  portions  of  the
  dwelling.
4.  Every  apartment  arranged for permanent occupancy shall contain a
  bath or shower accessible from every bedroom without passing through any
  other bedroom. In dwellings arranged for transient occupancy there shall
  be at least one shower or bath for every eight resident occupants.
5. Except as specifically provided otherwise in  this  chapter,  every
  water-closet  compartment  and  bath  or shower room shall have a window
  opening upon a street or upon a lawful court or yard.
6. In lieu of a required window or skylight, it  shall  be  lawful  to
  install  a  system of mechanical or gravity ventilation for water-closet
  compartments or bathrooms in any portion of a dwelling. Such  system  of
  ventilation  shall  be constructed, arranged and maintained continuously
  to provide at least four changes per hour of the air volume of each such
  water-closet compartment or bathroom.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 172 - Plumbing and Drainage.

§  172.  Plumbing  and  drainage. 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.   Where neither kind  of  sewer  is
  available, provision shall be made for disposing of such waste as may be
  permitted  pursuant  to  article  five  of  the public health law and as
  required by local law or ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 173 - Heating.

§  173. Heating. Every new dwelling shall be provided with heat in all
  living rooms sufficient to maintain the minimum temperatures required by
  local law, ordinances, rules or  regulation,  or  by  the  local  public
  health  officer, provided, however, that such minimum temperature shall,
  notwithstanding the provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  section  three
  hundred  twenty-nine  of this chapter, be sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit
  during the hours between six o'clock in the morning and ten  o'clock  in
  the   evening   during   the   months  between  October  first  and  May
  thirty-first, whenever the outdoor temperature  falls  below  fifty-five
  degrees Fahrenheit.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 5 - New Multiple Dwellings--General Provisions › Title 3 - Sanitation and Health › 174 - Repairs and Cleanliness.

§  174.  Repairs  and  cleanliness. The owner shall keep all and every
  part of a dwelling and the lot on which it is situated in  good  repair,
  clean and free from vermin, rodents, dirt, filth, garbage or other thing
  or  matter  dangerous  to  life  or health; but the tenant shall also 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
  guests.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 201 - Requirements for Fireproof Construction.

§  201. Requirements for fireproof construction. 1. Every new multiple
  dwelling exceeding six stories or seventy-five feet in height  shall  be
  fireproof.
2. The foregoing requirements shall not be construed as prohibiting:
a.  Elsewhere  than  within,  or in the openings to, the public halls,
  stairs and shafts, the  use  of  wood  for  sleepers,  grounds,  nailing
  blocks,  underflooring,  finish  flooring,  interior  doors  with  their
  assemblies and saddles, floor base not more than  one  foot  in  height,
  picture  and  wall  moulding,  shelving,  closet  and  kitchen fixtures,
  cupboards, cabinets and wardrobes.
b. The use of wood for window and for interior trim and finish  backed
  solidly  against,  or  filled with, incombustible material and elsewhere
  than within, or in the openings to, the public halls, stairs and shafts.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 202 - Egress From Dwellings.

§ 202. Egress from dwellings. 1. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes
  for  the  aged  and  boarding and nursery schools, two stories in height
  erected after July first, nineteen  hundred  fifty-seven,  child  caring
  institutions,  two  stories in height erected after July first, nineteen
  hundred sixty-two, and all dwellings three or  more  stories  in  height
  shall  have  at  least two fire-stairs. Except as otherwise specifically
  provided in subdivision four, such fire-stairs  shall  extend  from  the
  entrance  story  to the roof and be equipped with fireproof self-closing
  doors glazed with wire glass and without transoms. No windows  shall  be
  required  in such stairs, but any openings in exterior walls, except any
  window openings  facing  a  street  or  yard,  shall  be  equipped  with
  fireproof frame and sash and glazed with wire glass.
2.  Every such fire-stair shall have an entrance on the entrance story
  from a street or an entrance at the side or rear of the dwelling from  a
  yard,  court  or  passageway  having  continuous,  safe and unobstructed
  access to a street. Every required stair and stair-landing shall  be  at
  least three feet eight inches in clear width.
3.  There  shall be horizontal access from every apartment to at least
  two fire-stairs, at least one of which shall be within one hundred  feet
  horizontally  in the line of travel from a required means of egress from
  such apartment.
4. A dwelling as a rule transiently or temporarily occupied, in  which
  at  least  eighty  per centum of the living rooms above the second story
  open directly upon a  public  hall  without  any  intervening  foyer  or
  private  hall,  shall  have  at least two fire-stairs accessible at each
  story from each room through a public hall. Such fire-stairs shall be so
  located that at least one fire-stair shall be not more than one  hundred
  twenty-five  feet along the line of travel from the means of egress from
  any living room. Every such fire-stair shall have a clear  width  of  at
  least  three  feet  eight  inches.  Two such fire-stairs shall be deemed
  adequate for seventy living rooms on any story.
5. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes for the  aged,  and  boarding
  and  nursery  schools,  one  story  in height, erected after July first,
  nineteen hundred fifty-seven, and child caring institutions,  one  story
  in  height,  erected after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, shall
  have at least two means of egress from the dwelling accessible to  every
  apartment  providing  free  and unobstructed egress by a door opening to
  the outer air.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 203 - Egress From Apartments.

§ 203. Egress from apartments. 1. There shall be at least one means of
  egress  from  each  apartment  or  suite on each and every story of such
  apartment or suite, and a second means of egress if the first  means  is
  not within forty feet of every living room in such apartment or suite on
  such story.
2.  No means of egress from any apartment or suite shall open into any
  stair or fire-stair required under the provisions of this section except
  through a vestibule or public hall.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 204 - Bulkheads.

§  204. Bulkheads. Every stair and fire-stair required by this chapter
  to extend to the level of  the  roof  shall  extend  to  and  through  a
  fireproof  bulkhead  or  other  fireproof  enclosure  in such roof. Such
  bulkhead or enclosure shall give unobstructed access  at  all  times  to
  such  roof  by means of a fireproof door and door assembly with the door
  self-closing. Stairs to a bulkhead or enclosure shall have  a  handrail.
  Where  the  roof  of  a  dwelling is pitched or sloped more than fifteen
  degrees, no bulkhead or stairs leading thereto shall be required.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 205 - Separation and Ventilation of Stairs.

§  205.  Separation  and  ventilation  of  stairs.  1.  All stairs and
  fire-stairs shall be completely separated  from  one  another  and  from
  every  elevator  or  other  shaft  by  fireproof  walls.   They shall be
  constructed of fireproof material throughout and shall contain  no  wood
  or  other  inflammable  material  of  any kind, except that handrails of
  hardwood may be provided.
2. Access to stairs and fire-stairs from any public vestibule or other
  public hall shall be through fireproof doors and  assemblies,  with  the
  doors  self-closing  and  at  least three feet wide, or through pairs of
  such doors at least four feet wide, containing in either  case  a  fixed
  sash glazed with wire glass at least one-quarter inch thick and at least
  three hundred sixty square inches in area.
3.  At  the highest level of every stair and fire-stair there shall be
  provided a window or a skylight. At such termination, there  shall  also
  be  an  opening  of  at least one hundred forty-four square inches which
  shall communicate directly to the outer air, which opening may be a part
  of such window or skylight. Except as  herein  provided,  such  skylight
  shall  ccomply  with  the  provisions  of subdivision two of section one
  hundred eight.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 206 - Cellar and Basement Stairs.

§  206.  Cellar  and  basement  stairs.  All inside cellar or basement
  stairs shall be entirely enclosed with fireproof walls and  be  provided
  with fireproof doors and assemblies, with the doors self-closing, at all
  openings.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 207 - Public Halls.

§  207.  Public  halls. 1. Every public vestibule or other public hall
  shall comply either  with  the  applicable  provisions  of  section  two
  hundred  fifty-eight  for  non-fireproof  dwellings,  or with all of the
  following provisions:
a. Every such public vestibule or hall shall be  everywhere  at  least
  three  feet  eight inches in clear width and shall be separated from all
  other parts of the dwelling by fireproof floors and walls.
b. All openings from such  a  public  vestibule  or  hall  to  stairs,
  fire-stairs,   shafts,  apartments  or  suites  shall  be  protected  by
  fire-proof doors and assemblies, with  the  doors  self-closing,  except
  that  such doors and assemblies shall not be required in any transiently
  or temporarily occupied fireproof dwelling for any apartment  consisting
  of one room opening directly upon a public hall.
c.  Such  a  public  vestibule or hall shall not be required to have a
  window, but if it does not have a window opening to  the  outer  air  it
  shall be equipped for artificial lighting and ventilation.
d.  Any  part of a public hall that is shut off from any other part of
  such hall by a door or doors shall be deemed a separate hall.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 6 - Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 2 - Sanitation › 215 - Interior Water-Closets and Bathrooms.

§  215.  Interior  water-closets and bathrooms. 1. Except as otherwise
  provided in this section, water-closets, bath and shower  rooms  may  be
  ventilated  by  windows  or  mechanically  ventilated  as  prescribed in
  section one hundred seventy-one.
2. In transiently occupied dwellings there shall be on each  story  at
  least two water-closet compartments for the first twenty living rooms or
  fraction  thereof  and  at least one additional water-closet compartment
  for each additional fifteen living rooms or fraction thereof.
a. The water-closet compartments on each  story  shall  be  accessible
  from every such living room on the story. Such water-closet compartments
  may be placed in one or more general toilet rooms.
b.  Every  water-closet  compartment  of  a  general toilet containing
  water-closet compartments permitted under this subdivision shall have  a
  window  opening  to  the  outer air of the dimensions, kind and location
  required in a living room of the same area by section one hundred three,
  or be provided with a system of mechanical ventilation as prescribed  in
  subdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 252 - Sub-Curb Uses.

§  252.  Sub-curb  uses.  In  all portions of such dwellings below the
  level of the highest curb all structural members,  partitions,  furrings
  and ceilings shall be constructed of incombustible materials.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 253 - Construction of First Floor.

§  253. Construction of first floor.  The first floor above the lowest
  cellar, or, if there be no cellar, above  the  lowest  story,  shall  be
  fireproof  or,  if  the  dwelling  be  three  stories or less in height,
  fire-retarded.