Help removing original mirror

MDR, it’s an original two-family with an apartment over a duplex. One of the giveaways is the two identical original bathrooms behind the stair, including one on the parlor floor. They are circa 1890s and had indoor plumbing and no privy. They do typically have a “servants” toilet off the mudroom on the ground floor that in a way is like the privy has come almost into the house but not quite.

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Guest User | 5 years and 2 months ago

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No permits… the situation is typical in the boiler being in the front on one side of a party wall and in the rear of the opposite wall

yudashasom | 5 years and 2 months ago

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My point is, the entry mirror in MOST buildings does not line up with the neighbors chimney – the mirror is too far forward. This is a fact not an opinion.

Guest User | 5 years and 2 months ago

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no-permitz, my house may be different than most then, because the mirror aligns with the flue.
See attached a floor-plan of my house. The neighbor’s house is identical. You can see the mirror (in red) aligns with the flue in the parlor and basement (I drew blue lines to show that). It’s not perfectly aligned, but enough that there is a sizeable part of the neighbor’s flue that is behind my mirror.
I hope this helps clarify. [Mirror alignment](//muut.com/u/brownstoner/s3/:brownstoner:p0wd:mirroralignment.jpg.jpg)

MDR | 5 years and 2 months ago

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We had our chimney lined to accommodate a new gas boiler and it was $3,000 in 2014. Could be little higher now.

Interesting floor plan – just like a friends house in Bushwick. I think the little hallway to the back yard is a vestige from when there were no indoor toilets and everyone in the house needed access to the backyard privy. Also, clothes were dried on lines across the back yard and if anything dropped it helped to have access to the yard for retrieval.