Secondary entrance door to apartment doesn't open 180 degrees, is that an issue (with DOB/fire code)?

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My wife and I are looking at a co-op apartment that is a combination of what used to be two apartments; the units have already been combined.  There are still two separate doors to enter the apartment from the common hallway.  However, one door, because of renovations that were done, only opens about 85 degrees before hitting a bathroom wall.  The other entry point to the apartment has no issues.  Is this door a violation of any DOB or fire code regs?  If so, what could be done to remedy?  Is it feasible to “narrow” the doorway of the problematic door and replace the existing door with one of 2″ less width (this would enable the door to open fully)?   In the attached photo the problematic door in question is the one marked ‘D7’ to the left of the photo.  Despite what’s shown in the sketch, the door actually does not clear the wall directly in front of it by about 1″. Thanks all for your input.

jstern14

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jcarch | 13 years and 5 months ago

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The door was left in place to avoid having to file the alteration as an Alt 1 because they’d have been changing the ocuppancy of the building (be deleting one dwelling unit).  An Alt 1 is much more expensive to file/inspect/etc., so if you leave both doors, DOB let’s you file an Alt2, I assume the logic is that you could return the layout to the original 2 units some day, so no harm, no foul. Of course this is exactly the sort of common sense policy that DOB’s been turning their back on the past few years.   Jim Hill’s right, as long as it’s 40′ or less from the doorway of the furthest habitable room to the apartment entry, then the other door is not needed for egress.

dazednconfused2 | 13 years and 5 months ago

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From the looks of it, you’ve got one apartment with two entry doors.  As long as one of those doors meets code, the other one isn’t necessary at all, so depending upon the layout, you could probably just close it up entirely.  If the problematic door is the primary entry, it needs to be 36″ wide.