No 13th Floor
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ODragon
N 40° 45.463 W 073° 57.678
18T E 587676 N 4512380
Deep in the heart of 455 E 57th street...
Waymark Code: WM59DD
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Views: 62
Deep in the heart of 455 E 57th street lies an elevator. This is a building... a building without a 13th floor!
From wikipedia:
The levels of a multi-story building are numbered sequentially, from "basement", "one" or "ground" upwards. In some countries, the number 13 is considered unlucky and building owners will sometimes purposefully omit a floor so numbered. Hence, the 13th floor is given the number 14. Even landlords who are not themselves superstitious realize that the desirability of suites on a floor 13 might be compromised because of superstitious tenants, or commercial tenants who worry about losing superstitious customers. Based on an internal review of records, Dilip Rangnekar of Otis Elevators estimates that 85% of the buildings with elevators that do not have a named 13th floor.
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