Plans

Not really.

Columbia Archives might have a physical version of the plans for your building, you would need to go in person. Also you can check to see if anyone else has recently renovated and has plans available and/or filing with the DOB. The DOB would have their plans on file, an expeditor would need to pull them and make copies (which costs $).

NWT can find this, and you should pay him to do so.

Not me. It'd mean getting off my ass and going down to the DoB. That's the first place Oxymoronic's architect would've checked, anyway.

The Columbia site at http://nyre.cul.columbia.edu is just marketing brochures, so not much good for figuring where risers are. You can make pretty accurate assumptions about where risers would be, but there're probably always surprises.

In a typical 1960s building with setbacks up top, for instance, on the higher floors the exhaust stacks and other risers from floors below could be just about anywhere.

If there's an in-house broker (i.e., a broker who sells a lot in a particular building and actually lives there) they might have made it their business to acquire the plans to help clients with renos. I know my sponsoring broker has fairly extensive documentation of his postwar in Chelsea -- I assume other brokers who have lived long-term in 1960s buildings will have same.

I would check with the super too, especially if he has any kind of long-term tenure.

ali r.
DG Neary Realty

Oxymoronic,

This happens to us often. Sometimes the only thing to do is probes.