In Manhattan, luxury often means small rooms, low ceilings, thin walls - and opulent marble tiling in windowless bathrooms.

None of the dead were in Flamingo Lakes, where residents who awoke to the deafening noise sought shelter in windowless bathrooms and closets.

Often, however, they found windowless bathrooms, cheerless renovations or looming close-ups of the Williamsburg Bridge.

In the windowless bathroom, they added a pair of crank-out windows and an open shower with mosaic tile flooring.

"And I like very much the idea of entering a cave," he added, describing the windowless, slate-tiled bathrooms.

To let sunshine into the windowless bathroom, the door into the area has a glass transom.

And the ample, windowless bathroom contained six rather thin white towels.

This also lets him make the small, windowless bathroom, which backs onto the closet - a feature criticized by some of the building's first residents - slightly bigger.

The house was too big, the walls too thick, and here we were in a windowless tiled bathroom.

Q.In my windowless bathroom the wallpaper has some spots of mildew.