Title MDW, Multiple Dwelling

§ 186. Extension roofs. The under-surface of the roof of any extension shall be fire-retarded or sprinklered unless such ceiling has already been plastered in a manner satisfactory to the department.

§ 187. Egress. 1. Except as provided in paragraph g of subdivision three of section one hundred seventy-one, egress from every apartment on each story shall be provided as follows: a. If a dwelling is two stories or less in height, or if it is three stories including a basement …

§ 188. Bulkheads and scuttles. Except as provided in paragraph g of subdivision three of section one hundred seventy-one, bulkheads and scuttles shall conform to the following provisions: 1. Every required bulkhead to and through the roof shall be fireproof or constructed of woo…

§ 189. Stair and public hall construction. Except as provided in paragraph g of subdivision three of section one hundred seventy-one, stairs and public halls shall conform to the following provisions: 1. In a dwelling more than a basement and three other stories in height or occ…

§ 190. Cellar stairs. 1. Except as provided in paragraph g of subdivision three of section one hundred seventy-one, and except as otherwise provided in subdivision two hereof, every stair leading from a cellar to the floor above shall be constructed of incombustible materials, s…

§ 191. Wainscoting. Wainscoting in any stair or public hall shall be removed unless such wainscoting is backed against a fire-retarded wall or the stair or hall is equipped with a sprinkler system conforming to the provisions of section one hundred eighty-seven. Where wainscotin…

§ 192. Cellar entrance. a. If there is a cellar, there shall be an independent entrance thereto from outside the dwelling by means of a metal fire ladder or fireproof stair leading to an opening in the outside cellar wall at least two feet six inches in width and six feet in hei…

§ 193. Frame buildings. No frame building shall be erected or maintained upon the same lot with a dwelling converted after April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred thirty, nor shall any frame building not occupied on April thirteenth, nineteen hundred forty, as a multiple dwelling …

§ 194. Sprinkler heads in rooms. 1. On and after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, in every room used for class B occupancy whether in a class A or class B non-fireproof converted dwelling, there shall be one or more sprinkler heads. Such sprinkler heads shall be install…

§ 2. Legislative finding. It is hereby declared that intensive occupation of multiple dwelling sites, overcrowding of multiple dwelling rooms, inadequate provision for light and air, and insufficient protection against the defective provision for escape from fire, and improper s…

§ 200. Water-closets. Water-closet compartments or bathrooms containing water-closets in converted multiple dwellings shall comply with the applicable provisions of section seventy-six.

§ 210. Application of article seven and other provisions to tenements. Except as provided in section two hundred forty-eight, the provisions of this article shall apply only to tenements, as defined in subdivision eleven of section four, occupied as such before April eighteenth,…

§ 211. Height and bulk. 1. No tenement shall be increased in height so that its height shall exceed by more than one-half the width of the widest street upon which it stands. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision four of this section, no non-fireproof tenement shall be inc…

§ 212. Yards and courts. 1. No tenement shall be enlarged or its lot diminished in any way which would leave any yard or court less in any dimension than the minimum dimensions prescribed for yards or courts in section twenty-six. The restrictions of this subdivision shall not a…

§ 213. Lighting and ventilation of rooms. 1. No tenement, its lot or any room, public hall or stairs therein shall be so altered as to have its light or ventilation diminished in any way not approved by the department. 2. In every tenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen h…

§ 214. Size of rooms. 1. In every tenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, the sizes of living rooms shall meet the following requirements: a. In each apartment there shall be at least one living room containing at least one hundred twenty square feet of clear…

§ 215. Alcoves. No part of any room shall be enclosed or subdivided, 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 conforming to the provisions of sec…

§ 216. Rooms in basements and cellars. No room in the basement or cellar of any tenement shall be occupied for living purposes unless there is a written permit therefor as provided in subdivision five of section three hundred and it either is part of an apartment which complies …

§ 217. Lighting and ventilation of public halls and stairs. 1. In every tenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, which exceeds four stories in height or is occupied by three families or more on any story, every public hall shall have at least one window openin…

§ 218. Alterations. 1. Any non-fireproof tenement erected after May fifteenth, nineteen hundred two, having apartments extending from street to yard and having one or more outer courts on a side lot line four feet or more in width or inner courts which alone or together with adj…

§ 230. Chimneys and fireplaces. In every existing tenement which is not heated from a central heating plant there shall be adequate flues or chimneys through every floor with a fireplace or place for a stove properly connected with one of such flues or chimneys for every apartme…

§ 231. Egress. 1. Every non-fireproof tenement exceeding two stories in height and every fireproof tenement erected after May sixteenth, nineteen hundred thirteen, shall have at least two independent means of egress, which shall extend from the ground story to the roof, be locat…

§ 232. Fire-escapes. 1. All fire-escapes erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be arranged and constructed in conformity with the provisions of section fifty-three. 2. As specifically indicated in subdivision nine of section fifty-three, a wire, cha…

§ 233. Bulkheads and scuttles. 1. Every tenement, except as in this section otherwise provided, shall have in the roof a fireproof bulkhead with a fireproof door and after January first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, the door shall be self-closing. Bulkheads existing on April ei…

§ 234. Stairs and public halls. 1. In every tenement erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twelve, all stairs shall extend from the entrance story to the roof, except as otherwise provided in section two hundred thirty-three, and the stairs and public halls shall each…

§ 235. Stairs in non-fireproof tenements. 1. Every non-fireproof tenement erected after May fifteenth, nineteen hundred two, containing more than twenty-six apartments or suites of rooms above the entrance story shall have an additional stair for every additional twenty-six apar…

§ 236. Stairs in fireproof tenements. 1. Except as in this section otherwise provided, every fireproof tenement erected after May fifteenth, nineteen hundred two, containing more than thirty-six apartments or suites of rooms above the entrance story shall have an additional stai…

§ 237. Stair construction. 1. Every stair in a tenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, shall be accessible on the entrance story from a street or street court, or from an inner court which connects directly with a street. 2. All such stairs shall have risers …

§ 238. Stair and entrance halls. All stair and entrance halls in tenements shall be constructed as provided in this section. 1. In tenements erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one: a. On every story there shall be fireproof doors and assemblies with the doors self-clo…

§ 239. Tower fire-escapes and supplemental stairs. In fireproof tenements tower fire-escapes or stairs which are supplemental to the stairs required by law may be installed providing such tower fire-escapes or stairs shall be shut off from all other parts of the dwelling by bric…

§ 240. First tier of beams. 1. In all tenements erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, which are five stories or more in height, the first floor above the lowest cellar, or, if there be no cellar, above the basement or other lowest story, shall be fireproof; and all …

§ 241. Partitions; fire-stopping. 1. In tenements erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twelve, wood stud apartment partitions which are directly over each other shall run through the wood floor beams and rest upon the plate of the partition below. In fireproof teneme…

§ 242. Cellar and basement stairs in non-fireproof tenements. 1. Cellar stairs in non-fireproof tenements erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, which are occupied by three families or more on any story or which are five stories or more in height, shall be governed b…

§ 243. Cellar and basement stairs in fireproof tenements. In fireproof tenements erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twelve, the cellar and basement stairs shall be located, arranged and constructed as provided in section one hundred six for fireproof dwellings erec…

§ 244. Spaces under stairs. In non-fireproof tenements erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, no closet of any kind shall be constructed or maintained under any stair leading from the entrance story to the upper stories, and such space shall be kept entirely open and…

§ 245. Cellar entrance. In tenements erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, there shall be an entrance to the cellar, or to the basement or other lowest story if there be no cellar, from the outside of the tenement.

§ 248. Single room occupancy. 1. It shall be unlawful to occupy any frame multiple dwelling for single room occupancy. It shall be unlawful to occupy any other existing class A dwelling or part thereof as a rooming house or furnished room house or for single room occupancy unles…

§ 25. Application of article three. Except as otherwise expressly provided, all the provisions of this article shall apply to every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine. Except as otherwise expressly provided, only the following enumerat…

§ 250. Water-closets. Water-closet compartments in tenements shall comply with the applicable provisions of section seventy-six.

§ 251. Vent flues. Supplementary water-closet compartments and bathrooms in fireproof tenements shall be ventilated and lighted in accordance with the applicable provisions of section seventy-six.

§ 252. Privacy. In every apartment of three or more rooms in any tenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, there shall be access to every living room and bedroom and to at least one compartment or bathroom containing a water-closet without passing through any b…

§ 26. Height, bulk, open spaces. 1. Dwellings affected. a. This section, except as may specifically be provided otherwise in articles six and seven, shall apply to all dwellings erected, enlarged, converted or altered pursuant to plans filed on or after December fifteenth, ninet…

* § 260. Recovery of rent for certain non-complying premises restricted during emergency period. 1. Legislative finding. It is hereby declared that in cities of this state with a population of over one million there exists an acute shortage of dwelling accommodations available t…

* § 261. Recovery of possession of certain non-complying premises restricted during emergency period. 1. Legislative finding. The public emergency which existed at the time of the enactment of and which was declared in chapter six hundred seventy-five of the laws of nineteen hun…

§ 262. Alteration of uncompleted buildings. The provisions of this chapter relating to multiple dwellings erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall not apply to any fireproof building structurally enclosed but uncompleted on April first, nineteen hundre…

* § 264. Conversion of certain dwellings. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or of any other law, it shall be lawful until July first, nineteen hundred forty-nine, for any owner to convert a non-fireproof dwelling which is not of frame construction, no…

§ 275. Legislative findings. It is hereby declared and found that in cities with a population in excess of one million, large numbers of loft, manufacturing, commercial, institutional, public and community facility buildings have lost, and continue to lose, their tenants to more…

§ 276. Definition of an artist. As used in this article, the word "artist" means a person who is regularly engaged in the fine arts, such as painting and sculpture or in the performing or creative arts, including choreography and filmmaking, or in the composition of music on a p…

§ 277. Occupancy permitted. Any building in any city of more than one million persons which at any time prior to January first, nineteen hundred seventy-seven was occupied for loft, commercial, institutional, public, community facility or manufacturing purposes, may, notwithstan…

§ 278. Application of other provisions. 1. The provisions of this article apply to buildings with residential, mixed or joint living-work quarters or artists' occupancy as herein provided and to such buildings only. In addition to the provisions of this article, the following en…