N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law § 35: Entrance doors and lights

§ 35. Entrance doors and lights. In every multiple dwelling erected

after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, every door giving

access to an entrance hall from outside the dwelling shall contain at

least five square feet of glazed surface. The width of every such door

shall be at least seventy-five per centum of the required clear width of

such entrance hall as provided in section fifty, except that when a

series of such entrance doors is provided their aggregate clear width

shall not be less than seventy-five per centum of the required width of

the entrance hall and the clear width of each of the doors separately

shall be at least two feet six inches. Such a door opening upon a

street or a court extending to a street may be of wood. Such a door

opening upon a yard or upon a court not extending to a street shall be

fireproof.

The owner of every multiple dwelling shall install and maintain a

light or lights at or near the outside of the front entrance-way of the

building which shall in the aggregate provide not less than fifty watts

incandescent illumination for a building with a frontage up to

twenty-two feet and one hundred watts incandescent illumination for a

building with a frontage in excess of twenty-two feet, or equivalent

illumination and shall be kept burning from sunset every day to sunrise

on the day following. In the case of a multiple dwelling with a frontage

in excess of twenty-two feet, the front entrance doors of which have a

combined width in excess of five feet, there shall be at least two

lights, one at each side of the entrance way, with an aggregate

illumination of one hundred fifty watts or equivalent illumination. In

enforcing this provision the department shall permit owners to determine

for themselves the actual location, design and nature of the

installation of such light or lights to meet practical, aesthetic and

other considerations, so long as the minimum level of illumination is

maintained.