One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan is rising fast. The shiny tower now soars 100 stories into the sky — based on creative counting.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the skyscraper is now about 1,240 feet above the ground, the Wall Street Journal reported. That makes it the tallest building in Lower Manhattan.
Last week, it reached 93 stories. Now after a story was added, it’s 100. What gives? Fuzzy architectural math.
The Journal reported that floors 94 through 99 don’t exist. That is because developers often number floors in strange ways based on varying floor heights and usability of the stories themselves.
For example, the second actual inhabitable floor of 1 WTC after the ground floor is the 20th. And floors 91 through 93 are for mechanical equipment and thus are each much higher than an office floor.
When complete, 1 WTC (or the Freedom Tower, as it is informally known) will be 104 stories. It will feature observation decks on the 100th, 101st, and 102nd floors.
(Source: MyFoxNY)
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If only all other building projects would go that fast. Eg the bqe has been under construction for 30 years
gosh, that taller than my apartment which is only 92 stories high. I count each book shelf as a floor and the steps in the step-stool my wife uses, plus my ladder and my extra inner soles for my shoes, but that, of course, is using creative counting.
They are also counting all of the stories that are printed about them.