13th Floor High Rise Buildings
These days it s practically scripture.
13th floor high rise buildings. Some hotels skip the number 13 and go straight to 14 when numbering floors. It s also possible that 13th floor aversion is prevalent in nyc due to initial architectural concerns about erecting too tall buildings. It is because of the disorder triskaidekaphobia and a general dislike of or superstition regarding the number 13. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.
The 13th floor has long been skipped out of superstition with elevator buttons jumping directly from the 12th to the 14th floor. That s an estimate based on 650 mid and high rise buildings that have filed condo declarations with new york city since 2003 including luxury towers going up right now such as 53w53 and 225 w. The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the. Samuel lewis general manager of the lefrak management company told the new york times that the superstition has now affected the overwhelming majority of tall buildings in america.
Owners are simply afraid people won t rent. Before the city skyline featured lofty skyscrapers architectural critics cautioned that buildings surpassing 13 stories would ensconce the town in shadows and create dark and unlivable conditions. If you took a survey of high rises i think you d find 90 percent don t have a 13th floor.