N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law § 215: Alcoves

§ 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.