Fire Doors in Landmark Brownstones
We own a brownstone in a landmarked brooklyn neighborhood. The previous owner was processing the C of O to change it from a 1 family to a 3 family. In that process he had to take out doors leading into our apartment and put in self closing fire doors. The doors he took out were…
We own a brownstone in a landmarked brooklyn neighborhood. The previous owner was processing the C of O to change it from a 1 family to a 3 family.
In that process he had to take out doors leading into our apartment and put in self closing fire doors. The doors he took out were those big beautiful 9 foot hallway doors.
I read a NY Times article a few years after regarding a renovation in Brooklyn. An architect found a provision that allowed them to keep those big beautiful doors.
Any suggestions? I’ve got them in the basement, in a dry place.
HI Quest
Thanks for the background. I’ll ask my architect about it also, but I wanted to find out about others’ experience.
We had a 3 family brownstone coop and it had all original doors- the c/o had some note on it that said “old code” or something. At any rate, we had regular inspections by the city, and no one ever asked us to change the doors.