Do Buildings Have A 13th Floors

Of course not all hotels skip the 13th floor.

Do buildings have a 13th floors.

Prices for 13th floor apartments the handful of them that exist don t sell at a discount according to jonathan. As reported by the atlantic research conducted by cityreality the new york city based real estate listing site found that out of 629 apartment buildings in new york city with 13 or more floors a mere 9 percent actually labeled their 13th floor as well the 13th floor. Management companies for the rest of the buildings according to the. Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller.

In fact the otis elevators company estimates that 85 of the buildings with their elevators don t have a named 13th floor. One world trade center includes it as do all hilton international hotels. The thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky. A good example is that some have suggested the 13th floor in government buildings is not really missing but actually contains top secret governmental departments or more generally that it is proof of something sinister or clandestine going on.

Mar 20 2005 2 16 pm. Why isn t there a 13th floor. Skyscrapers did not come about until 1885. Both the plaza and the waldorf astoria have labeled 13th floors.

Some buildings do indeed have a 13th floor. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms. The rule of 13. The company found that out of 629 buildings with 13 or more floors only 55 labeled the 13th floor as the 13th floor.

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. The habit of leaving out the 13th floor in tall hotels is a relatively new one. The empire state building has one. How could this legend about the unluckiness of the number 13 pervade even the hospitality industry.

Elizabethmc answer has 2 votes elizabethmc 17 year member 346 replies. For those astute observers out there you may have noticed that many hotels and office buildings don t have a 13 th floor. I lived on the 13th floor of the dorm building in new york. So does the flatiron as did the twin towers.

Even then the first skyscraper the home insurance building was. These are mostly newer buildings which did away with the old superstition. And others are sneaky and find ways to get around it like floor 12a.