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Yeah. I work in this building and it terrifies me everyday. It does sway in the wind. You can hear the walls creek when the winds are high. Besides the complete
by smoorman1024 13y ago
Yeah. I work in this building and it terrifies me everyday. It does sway in the wind. You can hear the walls creek when the winds are high. Besides the complete fear that is instilled in my heart because this building was built in a flawed way it also has an absolute terrible elevator design.
The elevators are double-deckers. So the elevator actually has two rooms that move together. In the morning if you want to go to an even floor you have to enter from the basement level and if you want to go to an odd floor you have to enter from the lobby level. This results in the weird sensation that if you are going to a higher floor the elevators often stop but the doors do not open. Probably related to the weird design the elevators break down often and with or without an elevator set out of commission there are high queue times during peak hours. This is a building that could REALLY benefit from an elevator call system where you enter a floor and it assigns you which elevator to get into to. Why they haven't installed a relatively simple fix like this is beyond me.
My final gripe about this building is its sheer ugliness IMHO. The steel facade pegs it as one of those buildings that was built in a particularly time. It's not timeless like the Empire State Building or perpetually modern like the Willis Tower or One World Trade center.
I guess its only redeeming factor is the very nice public plaza it has both inside and outside, its direct access to the E and 6 trains (super convenient for me), and the fact that it has not fallen down yet.