On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:47:43 -0800 (PST), G Francis
wrote:

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Do you have exterior walls that do not have windows, or is the wall
with the windows the only exterior wall in the place? In some places,
code requires all exterior walls to have at least one window,

His building is from 1908. It's been grandfathered in. Government
doesn't make owners put new windows in 5th floor apartments, let alone
12th floor apartments.

I know a lot of cities where there is no such rule to begin with, and
his building sounds like a city building to me.

so I
would call whatever housing authority there is and see if anything can
be done.

The chances are minuscule that someone with a 12 story building
doesn't have the proper number of windows. If the OP really is
concerned, he should talk to the people in his line, the ones above
and below him. Older tenants will know if the building ever looked
different.

In almost all cases, all the apartments in a line are the same size.