In an office building in downtown Manhattan, an eight-foot-long banner stretched across the length of a fluorescent-lit hallway. Five-inch-tall red letters indicated the location of an entrance to a basement apartment, as required outside each unit. That’s according to proposed rules from the Department of Buildings for a pilot program to legalize those illicit spaces.  […]

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