§ 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.