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Originally Posted by 00crashtest
Even though you would hate to lose views, would still feel protected, shielded, and guarded from your neighboring buildings on all sides except the front being built right up against yours and blocking all your windows except those facing the front as a result? What if it were the same scenario except that your unit is not in the front, so only windows facing the light well with the view of your neighbor's brick wall immediately on the other side remained? If so, would that be more than enough to override the psychological setbacks of losing the vast majority of windows and actually be so much as to make you feel elated from simply being in your apartment from you feeling cocooned?
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well, you have to have windows -- that is a rule in nyc:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/MDW/30
my new apt and my previous old rental apt have room windows all facing in one direction. this is pretty common.
however, i think a landlord can get away with an apt having as little as one window in some instances. i could be wrong about that, but definitely there needs to be some window or windows to be legal, even if it faces a surrounded interior open area.
also, i do know a legal basement apt has to be like only half below streetlevel and have windows and two exits to be legal.
some of these situations would be depressing, but likely legal apts.