Department of Buildings of the City of New York.

BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.

Plan No..

189.

Filed.

189.

NOTICE.-In making application for the approval of plans for light and ventilation of new tenement and lodging houses, or for alterations of existing tenement or lodging houses, the following drawings must be furnished : Plans of all floors, including cellar and basement, and, if necessary, transverse and longitudinal sections. All plans must be drawn to a uniform scale, not less than one-quarter inch to the foot, and be on tracing cloth or cloth prints, and each shaft or court properly designated and dimensions of same plainly marked thereat.

NOTICE.-This permit expires by its own limitation six months from date of approval of the plan by the Commissioner of Buildings, unless the building is then begun. THOMAS J. BRADY,

Commissioner of Buildings.

APPLICATION

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COMMISSIONER OF BUILDINGS

TO APPROVE PLANS FOR LIGHT AND VENTILATION OF PROPOSED TENEMENT OR LODGING HOUSE.

Pursuant to law, application is hereby made to the Commissioner of Buildings to approve plans herewith submitted for light and ventilation of the buildings described in the following specifications, which are made part of said plans. The plans and specifications are to be construed together, but in case of any difference between them these specifications, subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the Commissioner of Buildings, are to govern.

Location.

Owner

Number of Buildings.

Address.

If it is proposed to alter an existing tenement or lodging house, or to convert a dwelling house or other building into a tenement or lodging house, state in what particulars :

FORM XVIII.

Dimensions of fanlights over doors of living rooms where marked on plans.

Cellar-How lighted and ventilated?.

Basement-How lighted and ventilated?.

Distance from extreme rear of main building to rear line of lot.

Distance from extreme rear of extension to rear line of lot.

Number and location of water-closets..

How will water-closet apartments be ventilated?_

FORM XIX.

How will the floor and sides of water-closet apartments be made water-tight?_

Cellar.

Basement.

1st floor.

2d floor.

DIMENSIONS OF LOT, SHAFTS, COURTS, YARDS, ETC.

NOTE. If several buildings and lots are of same dimensions throughout, one statement is sufficient. ALI. COMPUTATIONS MUST BE MADE ON LEVEL OF FIRST STORY. SHAFTS LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE SQUARE FEET IN AREA WILL NOT BE COMPUTED AS UNCOVERED SPACE.

NOTE.-Section 661, Laws 1887, as amended 1895, restricts the occupancy of any tenement or lodging house on any ordinary city lot to sixty-five per centum of the area of said lot, when such lot is not a corner lot, and empowers the Commissioner of Buildings to extend such occupancy to seventy-five per centum of the area of the aforesaid lot, provided "the light and ventilation of such tenement or lodging house are, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Buildings, materially improced." The same section also provides that no tenement or lodging house shall occupy more than ninety-two per centum of the area of a corner lot above the first story.

The limiting percentages that will be allowed under this provision of law is as follows:

For corner buildings upon lots less than 50 feet frontage, the maximum area that may be covered will be determined as follows.

For buildings greater than 30 feet frontage, the former tables of percentages will apply to that part which is In excess of 50 feet, and the latter scale for that which is under 50 feet.

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While the uncovered area cannot be less than the above it must be greater where required by the further regulations for shafts and fixing distance required at rear.

And it is further understood by the owner and architect that these plans for light and ventilation of the above-described buildings are approved, and this permit is issued and accepted upon the following conditions in addition to the foregoing, and are hereby incorporated therewith, according as the same is a tenement or lodging house.

That strict adherence to the plans and specifications on which this permit is granted will be required by the Commissioner of Buildings unless permission in writing has been previously given by him allowing their modification.

That no part of the cellar or basement will be constructed during the erection or after the completion of these buildings, to be occupied wholly or in part as a dwelling, unless the same be approved herein, or a special permit in writing has been previously obtained from the Commissioner of Buildings, nor unless the same comply with the

Conditions neces following conditions: 1st. That it be at least seven feet in height in every part. 2d. That sary to obtain permit. the ceiling thereof be at least two feet above the street or curb. 3d. That the space beneath the floor is cemented; and, 4th. That the area extend along the full frontage thereof and be at least two feet six inches wide, six inches below the floor level of the part occupied, and properly graded and drained, and that the steps leading thereto will have open risers and be so arranged as not to obstruct the light and ventilation thereof.

Air space required.

Windows.

Transoms

Alcove rooms.

Area of shafts aud courts.

Increased areas of shafts and courts.

That no habitable room will have a smaller air space than six hundred cubic feet. That every habitable room and water-closet apartment will have a window opening directly upon the street, yard, shaft or court, and such windows will be at least twelve square feet in area for living rooms, and three square feet in area for water-closet apartments, measured between the stop-beads. Said window will be hung with weights and made to slide vertically; and, in addition, each room, except those opening upon the public halls, will have a ventilating or transom window so arranged as to produce a cross-current of air.

Alcove rooms will conform to all the requirements of ordinary rooms.

Except as hereinafter otherwise stated, every light and air shaft or court for habitable rooms will be at least twenty-five feet square in area up to and including five stories in height, and be increased five square feet in area for each additional story beyond the fifth, and not less than two feet four inches wide in the clear at every point up to and including five stories in height and be increased four inches in width for each additional story beyond the fifth. Shafts or courts between two houses, and common to both, will be double this area and not less than four feet eight inches wide up to and including five stories in height and be increased eight inches in width for each additional story beyond the fifth. Where there are five interior rooms in a line on a floor the area of each shaft or court will be fifty per cent. greater than above described, and where there are six interior rooms in a line on a floor the area of such shaft or court will be at least one hundred per cent. greater than the minimum above stated.

Where there are twelve rooms on a floor of a teuement-house erected on an ordinary city lot, except a corner lot, the shafts and courts to light and ventilate the interior rooms will have an area equal to two hundred and fifteen square feet, and where there are fourteen rooms on a floor of a similar tenement-house the area of such shafts and courts will not be less than two hundred and sixty-five square feet, and these shafts or courts will be Where shafts will enlarged at their central portion so as to provide windows at the ends of each set of be enlarged. rooms where there are front and rear sets of apartments on a floor.

Shafts in corner bouses.

Shafts to be free from obstructions

Ventilating sky. light.

Space at rear.

In every corner house on an ordinary city lot having four families on a floor, and six rooms on the inside portion thereof the shaft to light and ventilate interior rooms will have an area equal to one hundred and seven and one-half square feet; and where there are seven rooms the area of such shaft will be one hundred and thirty-two and one-half square feet, and these shafts will be enlarged at their central portions to provide end windows as above described.

All shafts over ten square feet in area will be free and clear from skylights or any other covering or obstruction at the top, and all shafts and courts will be of the same area throughout.

That the main hall will be lighted and ventilated by a sky-light provided with louvres or ridge ventilator.

At the rear of every tenement or lodging house on any lot other than a corner lot there will be and remain from the ground upward a clear space of not less than ten feet between it and the rear end of the lot. At the rear of every tenement or lodging house on any corner lot there shall be and remain above the first story a clear space of not less than five feet between it and the rear end of the lot, up to eighty feet in height and Over 80 feet, five feet four inches,

Over 120 feet, eight fect.

Where the width of a corner lot is greater than an ordinary city lot it will have a clear space of not less than ten feet in the rear of that portion in excess of an ordinary city lot, or, in lieu thereof, an open court not less than one of the same widths as above, and beginning at the street or avenue, which will extend the full width of the lot and continue to the first interior room. And such interior portion of a corner tenement or lodging house will conform to all the requirements of a tenement or lodging house situated on an inside lot.

FORM XXI.

Privy vault.

Water-closets

Floor and sides of water-closet apartment.

Water supply.

Isolation room.

Drains, etc.

Restrictions

No privy vault or cesspool will be maintained on the premises if a connection with any public sewer can be made.

The general water-closet accommodations will not be placed in the cellar and no water-closet will be placed in the yard. In tenement houses there will be one watercloset on each floor, and where there is more than one family on a floor there will be one additional water-closet on that floor for every two additional families.

In lodging houses there will be one water-closet on each floor, and where there is more than fifteen persons on any floor there will be an additional water-closet on that floor for every additional fifteen persons or fraction thereof.

That the floor and sides of each water-closet apartment in every tenement and lodg ing house will be made water-proof with some non-absorbent material.

In every tenement house connected with any public sewer, running water will bo provided over a sink in each set of apartments.

Each lodging house will be provided with an isolation room, arranged as follows: 1st. It will be located on the uppermost floor and its air space will not be less than one thousand cubic feet. 2d. It will have a window opening on the street or avenue and a louvred skylight on the roof. 3d. It will be provided with a water-closet apartment having its partitions extended to ceiling and a window opening on the outer air, also a sink with running water; and, 4th. The walls and floor will be rendered impermeable to liquids or gases.

Yards, areas, light-shafts and courts will be properly graded, flagged or concreted' and drained.

Where the premises are occupied as a tenement house no part thereof will be used for a lodging house or private school. Nor will they be used for the storage and handling of rags.

No stable or coal yard will be maintained on any lot whereon it is proposed to erect a tenement or lodging house or convert any building to the purposes of a tenement or 'lodging house.

And, finally, the undersigned hereby agrees to faithfully comply with all the laws relating to the erection of tenement or lodging houses, or to the conversion of other buildings to the purposes of a tenement or lodging house, or to the maintenance of such tenement or lodging house, and also the rules and regulations under which this permit is issued.

SIR-I have the honor to report that the above described premises were begun

To the Commissioner of Buildings:

on the.

day of

day of

189, and completed on the.

189, and that said premises conform in all respects to

the conditions of the above permit and also the laws and rules and regulations relating to the light and ventilation of tenement and lodging houses.