Multiple Dwelling Law § 215 · Title 1. Light and Air
Alcoves
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§ 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.
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- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/MDW215
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