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22′ wide brownstone. Four floor 4 family

Can we remove internal flight of stairs going down from parlor floor to garden apartment floor? There is separate entrance under stoop to garden apartment, and rear door from garden apartment to large back yard.

We want to reconfigure parlor floor apartment, including maybe relocating kitchen from rear to middle room, which would move bedroom to rear.

As parlor floor lacks little room, there could be room for closet space if the stairwell and small lannding at top of stairway going down were eliminated.

Have any of you done that and/or gotten it approved?