Description

• Apartment entrance doors serve as the primary barrier between the interior living space and the external environment, providing security, privacy, and insulation for residents. They are generally made from hollow metal and include robust locking systems.

Baseline

• General Interior Doors
  • In all multiple dwelling buildings, building entrance doors, unit entrance doors, fire stair doors, fire tower doors, bulkhead doors, and rubbish chute closet doors are required to be self-closing. Local Law 62 of 2022 defines a self-closing door as a door equipped with a device that will ensure the door, when opened and released, returns to the closed position and self-latches shut.
  • All self-closing doors should comply with the NYC Housing Maintenance Code section 27-2041.1.
• Doors to apartments shall be equipped with a heavy-duty latch set and a heavy-duty deadbolt operable by a key from the outside and a thumb-turn from the inside. Those doors shall also be equipped with a chain guard so as to permit partial opening of the door. Apartment entrance doors shall also be equipped with a viewing device located so as to enable a person on the inside of the entrance door to view a person immediately outside.
• Door closers shall be adjusted so that from an open position of 90 degrees, the time required to move the door to an open position of 12 degrees shall be 5 seconds minimum. (Door closers at building entrances are LCN type, while door closers at apartment entrance doors are self closing by spring hinges)  

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Last Updated on May 8, 2025 at 10:43 am

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08 71 30 – Thresholds, Weatherstripping and Seals