Do Buildings Have 13 Floors

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.

Do buildings have 13 floors.

Elizabethmc answer has 2 votes elizabethmc 17 year member 346 replies. Management companies for the rest of the buildings according to the. The empire state building has one. So does the flatiron as did the twin towers.

Mar 20 2005 2 16 pm. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms. These are mostly newer buildings which did away with the old superstition. This is true for other tall buildings as well.

With that said some of nyc s most famous buildings do have 13th floors. That means 91 percent of buildings with a 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 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.

As one of the city s oldest hotels the luxurious palmer house hilton still has its 13th floor. 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. Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller. Some buildings do indeed have a 13th floor.

A lot of older buildings still have the 13th floor and the palmer house hilton is a 140 year old property so it s tough to say whether the developers were even concerned with that at the time adds a hotel customer service rep at the hotel. Some hotels skip the number 13 and go straight to 14 when numbering floors. While the 14 th floor is actually the 13 th floor for obvious structural reasons guests seem to take comfort in the fact that the number 13 is not mentioned at all. Prices for 13th floor apartments the handful of them that exist don t sell at a discount according to jonathan.

A survey by cityreality found that out of 629 condo buildings listed with 13 or more floors only 55 labeled the 13th floor as the 13th floor. I lived on the 13th floor of the dorm building in new york. Both the plaza and the waldorf astoria have labeled 13th floors.