Q. My apartment on the top floor of a Brooklyn co-op faces a courtyard. A resident on the opposite side of the courtyard complained to management that I have been spotted naked in my apartment. I’m a male in my 70s and no exhibitionist. The neighbor must see me early in the morning when I go to the kitchen to boil water. (I don’t turn on a light.) The waist-high window has curtains pulled back at the bottom around a plant on the sill, and the courtyard is about 150 feet across. This person must be working pretty hard to catch this view. What does the law say about my right to be naked in my own home?

A. New York State decency laws do apply to some behavior inside a private residence. You could cross a line if you were to, say, intentionally flash your neighbors for an extended period of time, a situation I pondered a few years ago in this column.