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Hello everyone!

Hoping someone can point to a regulation or something to clarify when sprinklers are required.

My wife and I are looking at a 4 story (garden plus 3 stories) Brownstone. In the house we looked at, it has a sprinkler system handing down about 6 inches from the ceiling through all of the common hallways and into the top two floors’ living areas.

The unit is/was apparently classified as an SRO. We’d be using it as a 3 family (garden plus parlor, then rentals on 2nd and 3rd floor) or potentially a 4 family with each floor a seperate unit.

I’ve never seen sprinklers, at least not that out in the open, on any of the other properties that we’ve looked at.

So, my question is, is there some requirement for these that I should know about? They are really ugly. It might be possible to build some type of covering on them to make them less so, but I’d rather just remove them if it is legal. This is the only place we have seen that is/was an SRO, so I’m wondering if that had something to do with it.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.