"Alternate" floor plan doesn't work

https://streeteasy.com/building/505-east-82-street-new_york/1g

I don't think this is a 2 bedroom..

that closet space in the middle of the dining room doesn't make sense either.

Definitively not, Krolik.

The alternate floor plan is perfect for someone who wants to convert it to a 3-bed for student owner/roommate situation or large but frugal family. Just because it doesn't meet your needs doesn't mean it does not fit someone else's.

I don't think frugality is the question here, as much as what can legally be considered a bedroom by NYC based on room size. The proposed dimensions in that alternate floorplan would not meet the city's requirements.

I do agree that there are many families out there who are willing to make very small rooms work, and happily so. But advertising it as an additional bedroom when cannot legally be one, presumably in hopes of bolstering the sales price, is dishonest. There is no lifestyle value judgment there.