Apartment Styles for NYC.
Traditional Bedroom.
All the main spaces of the home; (bedrooms, dining space, living room, bathrooms, kitchen) must be distinguishably separated from each other within the floor plan. All bedrooms must meet NYC Administrative code requirements. The admittance of a designated and separate space for dining varies and can be leveraged as a value-add (Highest and best use (of space)).
Railroad Apartment.
One-bedroom units, narrow in length, that lack the presence of a common hallway. All spaces are interconnected door to door, upon leaving one room your directly placed within another. There must not be a way to travel end to end within the apartment without stepping foot in every space, sometimes including the bathroom.
Duplex/Triplex Floorplan.
In NYC, Duplexes and Triplexes refer to one unit, not multiple. They are Two or Three story apartments connected by an elevator or stairs, one of floors can sometimes be the basement level. This floorplan is not to be confused with a ‘maisonette’ duplex/triplex in which contain a separate private ground-level entrance into the apartment.
Studio Styles.
Open spaced apartment with little to no walls. Excluding the bathroom, all spaces of the apartment coexist into one another, typically undivided by barriers that create division between rooms.
Studios that include an additional un-walled sleeping space is considered an alcove-studio. Alcove floorplans are typically L shaped
Junior-Bedroom layout.
Similar to an alcove studio, the bedroom space does meet nyc requirements to be considered a bedroom however, unlike an alcove, the sleeping space is partially or fully enclosed from the typically space it shares.
A good way of determining whether a unit is Jr or not, is by first ensuring the room is NOT considered a bedroom by code requirements. Next, the sleeping space must be separated by a full or partial wall that sufficiently divides the identity of the space from the rest of the shared room.
