N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law Section 252
Privacy

In every apartment of three or more rooms in any tenement erected after April twelfth, nineteen hundred one, there shall be access to every living room and bedroom and to at least one compartment or bathroom containing a water-closet without passing through any bedroom.

Source: Section 252 — Privacy, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/MDW/252 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Feb. 21, 2026).

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