N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law Section 215
Alcoves

No part of any room shall be enclosed or subdivided, wholly or in part, by a curtain, portiere, fixed or movable partition or other contrivance or device unless each such enclosure or subdivision shall contain a separate window conforming to the provisions of section thirty for rooms in multiple dwellings erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, and have a clear floor area of at least seventy square feet.

Source: Section 215 — Alcoves, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/MDW/215 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 1, 2025).

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