Legal bedroom size question

[lacharlie1]

I am in a 2 bedroom apartment with one bedroom approx 7' x 10'. Is there a legal minimum for a bedroom in New York? Is there a website I can go to to find the blueprints or what size the city considers this place?

[Cranky Tenant]

According to the Multiple Dweling Law Section 34 regarding room size

Sec. 31. Size of rooms.

1. The provisions of this section, except subdivision six,
shall apply only to multiple dwellings erected after April
eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, and shall apply to
all such dwellings unless otherwise expressly limited.

2. Except as in this section and in section thirty-three
otherwise expressly provided, rooms, except kitchens, water-
closet compartments and bathrooms, shall meet the following
minimum requirements as to size:

a. In each apartment in a class A multiple dwelling there
shall least one living room containing at least one
hundred thirty-two square feet of floor area.

b. Every living room, except as provided in paragraph e,
shall contain at least eighty square feet of floor
space.

c. Every room shall be at least eight feet high, the
measurements to be taken from the finished floor to the
finished underside of the ceiling beams except that as
many as four beams crossing the ceiling of be at any
basement room may be disregarded if none of them
exceeds twelve inches in width or extends below the
ceiling more than six inches.