pretty sure this is illegal

That's why the first words in the listing are "Huge studio apartment..."

Don't you need a window AND a closet to call a room a bedroom? Usually they would call that space a home office & I think a space like that would be ideal for a home theatre but bedroom is stretching the point & may be illegal.

There isn't a bedroom.

To the right it says, '1 bed 1 bath'.

i've seen so many agents do this it no longer surprises me.

I think the agent got it right (in this case), Street easy just changed the 1 bedroom on the right side to 2 rooms. But the floor plan should say home office or something, not interior bedroom.

You only need a window, not a closet - to call it a bedroom.
BTW, many pre-war apartments are very light on closets, because those days they use to have furniture.

elena
(broker)

look at this one:
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/358656-condo-130-west-30th-street-chelsea-new-york
the broker was so annoying. i told her that room was a bedroom and more of a home office but she just kept calling it a bedroom over and over again in all sorts of different sentences until i had to run from the open house.

sorry i meant "i told her that the second room was NOT a bedroom and more of a home office"

The broker web site lists it as a 1 bedroom with a footnote:

* The number of bedrooms listed above is not a legal conclusion. Each person should consult with his/her own attorney, architect or zoning expert to make a determination as to the number of rooms in the unit that may be legally used as a bedroom.

No one is commenting on the price...a studio listed for $525k. Where are the lower prices?

well the pricing is skewed cause they are trying to market is as a one bedroom (with asterix)