13

yes

I have never lived in a building with a 13th floor.

Most buildings on the UWS don't have 13.

I'm sure you have, but they just called it "14."

if so, discount? how much

i'm an odd guy - i might actually consider paying a premium for floor 13 since it's so rare. and a conversation piece. imagine giving your address when buying furniture or ordering food? but i usually represent the market anomaly, so consider this opinion unqualified.

In some buildings the 13th floor is the penthouse floor.
Black cats are allowed, though.

I think some office buildings don't have 13th floor.

As a student I lived at 13 west 13th Street.
or as the residents refered to it "13-13 Mockingbird lane".

Care to guess whose address that really is?

In Chinatown some buildings don't have a floor 3 because the number 3 shape has negative conotations.

in chinese

13 is a lucky number is some cultures

The Munsters.

falcogold, 4 is unlucky in chinese not 3.

how would i even go about searching streeteasy for a unit with "13" in the address line? i've tried searching descriptions and using google to search "13 site:streeteasy.com" but no luck returning individual units...

e76, if you can narrow down to 200 or fewer apartments by other criteria, then click SE's Export button to open as a spreadsheet. Then sort by apartment #. E.g., doing that with 10023 co-ops shows the San Remo and 5 RSD as having 13th floors that're called 13th.

thanks nwt, f'ing brilliant. here are a few examples of what i've found (i didn't know the ansonia has a 13th floor - i guess you learn something new every day). this is what happens when i have to go to work on a saturday...

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/610773-coop-308-east-79th-street-upper-east-side-new-york

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/607286-coop-320-east-57th-street-sutton-place-new-york

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/545806-condo-2109-broadway-upper-west-side-new-york

I've seen 13th floor more frequently used in older buildings. My own view is this has less to do with superstition than being able to charge more money for a higher floor. Many buildings go from lobby to 3 and then skip 13. Trump has taken the skipped floor routine to new heights. If this were merely superstition why not skip the 4th floor which is bad luck in the Chinese culture.

In China it is the 4th floor that is unlucky, not the 3rd floor. The word for death and four sound similar.

Thanks for this incredibly insightful thread. This place has practically turned into a goldmine of real estate knowledge since SE greyed out all the people who talked about real estate but used bad words.

Now please continue with threads about unlucky numbers, vacation plans and moral superiority.

malthus,

Thank you!