Wheelchair Access 4 Family?


Hope someone, preferably a professional, can offer some quick insite on this. I was speaking with a consultant about a property that I am looking at buying. It is currently an SRO, but would finish as a 4 family (and yes certificate of non-harrassment is in order). The consultant said that since this will be a four family house, we might be required to make the ground floor wheelchair accessable, but he didn’t think this would apply if it were a 3 family.

Well it’s a Brownstone. It has a stoop. I can’t see anyway of making it wheelchair accessable without removing the stoop (which there is no way I would do anyway). The building is lankmarked anyway, so I probably couldn’t do it anyway.

So, anyone know how the law applies here? Thanks.

Categories: Building Code
By ncarty97 | 03/02/2010 2:40 PM | Comment

Sprinklers in multi-family


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.

Categories: Fire
By ncarty97 | 02/15/2010 2:01 PM | Comment

Any thoughts on 522 Lefferts?


I did a search but didn’t see anything on the 522 Lefferts Ave Condominiums. My wife and I are looking to move to Brooklyn and just getting familiar with the various areas (mainly looking in the areas around Prospect Park).

We viewed a few units at 522 Lefferts and really liked it, but don’t know that much about the area or the builders.

Any thoughts?

Categories: Construction
By ncarty97 | 07/14/2009 11:09 AM | Comment