New York Laws
Title 2 - Fire Protection and Safety
50 - Entrance Halls.

§ 50. Entrance halls. Every entrance hall in every multiple dwelling
erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be
at least four feet in clear width from the entrance to the first stair,
and beyond that shall be at least three feet eight inches in clear
width. If such an entrance hall is the only entrance to more than one
flight of stairs, the required width of such hall shall be increased in
every part, for each such additional flight of stairs, by one-half the
width required for one flight of stairs.

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