1664 3rd Ave LLC v. Murray

OPINION OF THE COURT

Phyllis K. Saxe, J.

1664 Third Avenue, an old law tenement building located in the East 90s in Manhattan, is a five-story walk-up, built before *3561902, containing eight railroad flat apartments each of which contain four rooms. A railroad flat or railroad-style apartment, common in buildings constructed before the turn of the twentieth century, features an entrance to the apartment from a common hallway with every room leading to the next.

Two rooms in each apartment face the street. The building also contains extremely narrow shaftways (measuring approximately nine square…