Business owners builders and developers tend to omit the 13 th floor from office buildings and apartment complexes because they may lose out on tenants who refuse to live or work.
List of buildings without a 13th floor.
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.
Even then the first skyscraper the home insurance building was.
Skyscrapers did not come about until 1885.
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.
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.
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.
Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller.
Management companies for the rest of the buildings according to the.
As one of the city s oldest hotels the luxurious palmer house hilton still has its 13th floor.
The habit of leaving out the 13th floor in tall hotels is a relatively new one.
Examples of unlucky floor numbers that usually omitted in elevators all numbers ending with four 4 in chinese culture fourth floor is usually omitted from most elevator fixtures in a chinese building this is because the number means death 死 it was considered that the number 4 in putunghua means sì while death is sǐ and cantonese means sei3 while death is sei2.
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.
In contrast the chrysler building employed a very large 38 1 m 125 ft spire secretly assembled inside the building to claim the title of world s tallest building with a total height of 318 9 m 1 046 ft although it had a lower top occupied floor and a shorter height when both buildings spires were excluded.
