N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law § 32: Alcoves

§ 32. Alcoves. 1. Every alcove, except a lawful cooking space, opening

from any room in any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth,

nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be separately lighted and ventilated

as provided for other rooms in section thirty. It shall have a floor

area of at least seventy square feet, a least horizontal dimension of at

least seven feet and an opening at least sixty square feet in area into

the room which it adjoins.

2. Except for cubicles permitted in lodging houses, no part of any

room in any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen

hundred twenty-nine, shall be enclosed or subdivided at any time, 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 as required for a room by section thirty and a

floor space of at least seventy square feet.