File #: Int 1404-2025    Version: * Name: Allow the occupancy of cellars in certain one- and two-family dwellings.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 9/25/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, to allow the occupancy of cellars in certain one- and two-family dwellings
Sponsors: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Crystal Hudson, (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Attachments: 1. Memorandum in Support, 2. Int. No. 1404, 3. September 25, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-25.pdf, 5. Committee Report 9/29/25, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 8. Hearing Testimony 9/29/25
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Int. No. 1404

By Council Members Sanchez and Hudson (by request of the Mayor)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, to allow the occupancy of cellars in certain one- and two-family dwellings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:Section 1.  Subdivision a of section 27-2087 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

a. Cellar occupancy: 1. No room in the cellar of a one- or two-family dwelling shall be rented and no member of the family or families occupying the dwelling shall use such room for sleeping, eating or cooking purposes, except that a secondary kitchen for accessory cooking may be located in the cellar.

2. Paragraph 1 of this subdivision shall not apply to the rental and use of an ancillary dwelling unit, as defined in section U102.1 of the New York city building code, that is located in a cellar and for which a certificate of occupancy or temporary certificate of occupancy has been issued.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.