A Manhattan couple could be forced to lop 200 feet from their Chelsea condo to create a fire exit for their neighbor.

Jeweler Judy Geib has been battling for years to get access to the fire escape in her West 22nd Street building.

A 1979 blueprint for the building shows a door opening onto a corridor that gives Geib’s apartment, 8A, a route to the fire escape.

But, the door inside Geib’s home opens to the adjacent apartment, 8B.

Geib complained, and building owner Top of the Lofts Inc. moved two years ago to create the fire corridor, suing the residents of 8B when they refused.

Neighbors Robert Topol and Michael Trotta countersued Top of the Lofts.

The current architecture is contrary to law and building codes, the city Buildings Department found last month, “which require that a required means of egress open directly upon the fire escape, without passing through another occupied unit.”

Geib’s lawyer, Steven Sladkus, said the co-op initially sought to create the fire corridor, and now that the city has come around, he said, “we are assuming that the cooperative is going to once again now require the hallway to be built.”

Topol and Trotta did not return a message. Top of the Lofts declined to comment.