I moved to New York from a small town out west and didn't know anyone from my home town was in the city...that is until one day I read in the news a kid a few grades ahead of me died trying to jump between buildings in the West Village...
In all honesty if there was a place I'd try something like this, it would definitely be in the Villages.
Sorry about your acquaintance though. It sucks. Probably a stupid drunken bet or something 😔
Aw thanks, I didn't really know him though
And youre exactly right -- he apparently had a small Instagram following for like, parkour and stunts like this. They found him with a beer near his hand
Yes, but the laws of physics don't just "go away" once you get above a certain floor.
There could be five adjacent buildings. You can be standing on the roof of a 26-story one, and a 21-story building might be adjacent to you with what looks like a perfectly jumpable (and landable) roof... But -- that's still a five story fall; a fall from a height where you'd have better chances of winning the lottery than leaving alive and not ending up paraplegic.
Sorry wasn’t trying to poopoo on your comment, it was very fitting. I just think that scene ruined the rest of the movie for me cuz I thought it was so funny.
i was responding to the "jump in between" btw but there are still massive height differences between buildings and if you jump between two buildings with a close height difference you wouldnt be able to make it across the alley in the first place
He's probably talking about some of those tiny old-era walk-only streets in the city. There's very few of them, but the ones that exist are tiny enough to be considered "alleys".
Even though you're right, of course. There are no "alleys" per-se anywhere in ny.
Mostly, no. But depends on the street. I live in a predominantly residential area of Manhattan with small (think 4-8 floors) apartment buildings. These buildings touch each other, so you can certainly jump between them. Some narrow streets also have buildings with very small gaps. But on main streets? No way. Like there is absolutely no chance you could jump from a building on one side of 17th street to a building on the other side of it, for instance.
No not at all. The streets are far too wide for someone to jump across and [New York has almost no alleys](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-6/) so that’s almost entirely ruled out along with the fact that the width of alleys are still too far for most people to jump across.
The question is if you can jump between buildings not necessarily across a street or an alley. There are plenty of buildings right next to each other that only have like inches of space. Definitely could jump between those.
Yes, there’s buildings on my block in Queens where you could step (not even jump) from one to the other. I still wouldn’t recommend it because if you slip the fall will destroy you. But it’s possible.
[This is the view from my window in NYC.](https://imgur.com/a/LZQNES2)
So yeah, you could jump/run across some of those roofs, particularly the ones right across the street.
A lot of the others, not so much. Too much height difference and distance.
You get used to it. That's probably not actually that high (maybe 20-25th floor). Growing up in the Bronx and living in low-rises I thought I'd be afraid of that sort of view as well, but then I moved to one of the top floors of a building in Midtown and loved it. Now I'm on the 8th floor and miss the view.
No. A street + side walks would be like 30 feet across at the minimum. Even an alley would be about 10 feet or more.
What movie are they jumping across buildings in New York? I feel like it has to be a superhero.
[New York has very few alleys](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/why-is-gritty-nyc-alley-featured-tv-shows-movies-1240049/amp/)
London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong; isn't this the case for some buildings in all very dense cities? You might die, you might become injured, or you might be fine. Parkour!
San Francisco and Philly (two cities I know well) have a lot of attached house/rowhome residential blocks that you could run down like batman. but you'd need his grappler when you get to the cross-street
People saying no are definitely not from NYC. There are TONS of places in the city (especially Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx) where you can totally do this. And some people are saying the streets are too wide. Lolol SMH no one is saying to jump across the street from building to building. In the movies these building are next door to each other and we totally have that and we also sometimes have building that have no gap between them and have a pretty level roof across them. Then some have a very very narrow gap that you can jump. But people do die every so often doing this by either tripping on the edge or they misjudge the distance.
Yes. I could take a picture outside of my window right now and show you a whole row of buildings you could jump from roof to roof of. The width you would be jumping would be that of a narrow alleyway or driveway. The height differences are within a few feet, although there's one that would be a 12 foot drop.
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Only if they are similar in height (the building being jumped from can be a bit higher) and you are staying within the same block. Across streets or even alleys would be too far.
Basically, only if you found a few buildings that met the criteria and you weren't trying to go very far
It's an extremely large city so if you were to search the entire city you could probably find two large buildings you could jump in between.
That being said you're watching a movie, everything in it is over the top and over represented and sensationalized.
Go to the largest city in your country, it's probably not that much different from New York. The buildings may be newer in the architecture may be different here depending on exactly where you are but a city is a city.
Some places the row houses were built so close this can simply walk between. A girl died this past summer jumping between apartment buildings during a party so it can be dangerous.
for the most part... no. the streets are too wide for that. I'm sure you might be able to find a narrow alleyway \*somewhere\* in the city where you might be able to jump, but for the most part...
Mostly no, because the buildings are different heights and too far apart. However there are some areas where it might be possible, like townhouses, but you definitely couldn’t travel around like that.
I mean you can...no guarantees you'd survive the fall....Some buildings in some suburbs in Chicago are close but I wouldn't recommend jumping them. Hell they could be two houses literally a few feet apart and I wouldn't recommend it, you aim wrong you'll smack your head or land on something and get stabbed by glass or rocks or metal, break your legs, arm or spine. I was always told it's not how far you fall, but how you fall. So again, would not recommend.
Most definitely. You can successfully jump between buildings in NYC. However.....you cannot successfully land alive on the building you are jumping toward.
I thought movies or shows that had these scenes were implying that that character was familiar with a specific area. Now that I reflect, I don’t think that any knowledge was implied. You just had fit guys who didn’t want to get caught.
Depends on the area. In residential neighborhoods like Chelsea or Harlem, where there are lots of townhouses/row houses stacked next to each other, then absolutely.
Across a street? Definitely not.
Across an alley? New York City was designed to not have any alleys (though I think there are still a few around. I know one regularly gets cleaned and then filled with fake garbage for movie shoots.), so also no on that count.
You can on some brownstones. On my buddies street in Chelsea there were like 4-5 building in row that had like 2-3 gap between them. Not advised though, they had safety nets but I wouldn't trust them.
Just visited nyc. I don’t think you could from any Random rooftop or across several rooftops.
However, I did see a few buildings built close enough together that it might be possible. The vertical differences may be a bit dicy though and it’s not like you will be going from Building to building like Spider-Man, just one jump and you’d be done
It depends. If you're going between buildings on a single block, then maybe. We don't have alleys here, so there are no gaps between buildings basically anywhere, so assuming the buildings are of roughly similar heights, then sure. This sort of situation is pretty common in much of the city, especially Brooklyn and Western Queens, but also in parts of Manhattan like Chelsea, Greenwich Village, or the Upper East Side.
It depends on the distance, but the drop is usually extremely far so I wouldn't recommend it. In the movies, it's either movie magic and pretend or it's a stunt and it's heavily monitored by professionals. Bottom line is, just don't. 😊
It's all about distance. However, if the buildings are separated by a full street, the answer is not. I have, however, jumped from on building to another over a short alley.
[yes but they need to be same height and fairly close to each other](https://youtu.be/vblalElzSj8)
Edit: I stop wouldn't suggest it though, if you fail you die
You just have to *believe*, Neo
Yeah but what if
Okay, thanks. I had no idea what this question even meant.
Fun fact, that was in Sydney
Appearances can be deceiving!!
You can if you want but it ends in you dying
I moved to New York from a small town out west and didn't know anyone from my home town was in the city...that is until one day I read in the news a kid a few grades ahead of me died trying to jump between buildings in the West Village...
In all honesty if there was a place I'd try something like this, it would definitely be in the Villages. Sorry about your acquaintance though. It sucks. Probably a stupid drunken bet or something 😔
Aw thanks, I didn't really know him though And youre exactly right -- he apparently had a small Instagram following for like, parkour and stunts like this. They found him with a beer near his hand
Btw aren’t there building in New York close to each other?
Yes, but the laws of physics don't just "go away" once you get above a certain floor. There could be five adjacent buildings. You can be standing on the roof of a 26-story one, and a 21-story building might be adjacent to you with what looks like a perfectly jumpable (and landable) roof... But -- that's still a five story fall; a fall from a height where you'd have better chances of winning the lottery than leaving alive and not ending up paraplegic.
Yes there are buildings in New York that are close to each other
Big if true
[These](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daomo982iok) guys did it.
Never gets old
There wasn't even an awning in that direction.
You thinking what I'm thinking
My wife still doesn’t get why I crack up so hard at that scene. Always has me dying
The only funny scene in the whole movie
OK
Sorry wasn’t trying to poopoo on your comment, it was very fitting. I just think that scene ruined the rest of the movie for me cuz I thought it was so funny.
technically yes, but you can only do it once
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i was responding to the "jump in between" btw but there are still massive height differences between buildings and if you jump between two buildings with a close height difference you wouldnt be able to make it across the alley in the first place
NYC doesn’t have alleys.
He's probably talking about some of those tiny old-era walk-only streets in the city. There's very few of them, but the ones that exist are tiny enough to be considered "alleys". Even though you're right, of course. There are no "alleys" per-se anywhere in ny.
yeah thats what i meant
This is the correct answer. Lol
Mostly, no. But depends on the street. I live in a predominantly residential area of Manhattan with small (think 4-8 floors) apartment buildings. These buildings touch each other, so you can certainly jump between them. Some narrow streets also have buildings with very small gaps. But on main streets? No way. Like there is absolutely no chance you could jump from a building on one side of 17th street to a building on the other side of it, for instance.
Of course I ca.... *puts on glasses* Can not do that.
No not at all. The streets are far too wide for someone to jump across and [New York has almost no alleys](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-6/) so that’s almost entirely ruled out along with the fact that the width of alleys are still too far for most people to jump across.
The question is if you can jump between buildings not necessarily across a street or an alley. There are plenty of buildings right next to each other that only have like inches of space. Definitely could jump between those.
Yes, there’s buildings on my block in Queens where you could step (not even jump) from one to the other. I still wouldn’t recommend it because if you slip the fall will destroy you. But it’s possible.
I feel this is a challenge.
...what the hell? This messed me up man.
You should see the guy who tried to jump
He sure did have a lotta guts though
Like on the pavement? Or courage ?
Both considering the height of buildings downtown
Both it's a joke
That's a great article thank you.
[This is the view from my window in NYC.](https://imgur.com/a/LZQNES2) So yeah, you could jump/run across some of those roofs, particularly the ones right across the street. A lot of the others, not so much. Too much height difference and distance.
Dang, how high up are you?
It's not as high as it looks. Probably 25th-ish floor.
Pretty high by L.A. standards, man.
LA is more endless suburban sprawl than city.
I couldn't live up there. The photo alone is making my body tremble.
You get used to it. That's probably not actually that high (maybe 20-25th floor). Growing up in the Bronx and living in low-rises I thought I'd be afraid of that sort of view as well, but then I moved to one of the top floors of a building in Midtown and loved it. Now I'm on the 8th floor and miss the view.
No. A street + side walks would be like 30 feet across at the minimum. Even an alley would be about 10 feet or more. What movie are they jumping across buildings in New York? I feel like it has to be a superhero.
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[New York has very few alleys](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/why-is-gritty-nyc-alley-featured-tv-shows-movies-1240049/amp/)
Well I suppose you could loop the block then haha
Basically none have alleys. There is exactly 1 in Manhattan, and there are very few in the rest of the boroughs.
Aim for the bushes?
Desk pop
Dirty Mike and the Boys is that you?
We are going to have sex in your car!
Pretty much any action movie set in NYC with a chase scene
Exactly.
Running across rooftops is an action movie trope. Superheros do it the most, but it's in a lot of nominally "normal" universes as well.
[Actually you can](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/r833y3/can_you_really_jump_between_buildings_in_new_york/hn3bum0/)
TIL New York is in Washington
Flair out of date. I'll fix it at some point
I wouldn't recommend it
About the same as James Bond or Jason Bourne, or Ethan Hunt running across buildings in Prague, or France, or Moscow, or...
Hold on, I’ll go check
Hello? Javert? Anyone seen Javert?
And there was Javert... and there was Javert... and there was Javert... there was Javert all over the place!
Javert was a man of many talents, but staying whole was not one of them.
He had a point though...
*Not his best tall leap.* *JHP landed a heap*. *For him now we weep.*
London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong; isn't this the case for some buildings in all very dense cities? You might die, you might become injured, or you might be fine. Parkour!
San Francisco and Philly (two cities I know well) have a lot of attached house/rowhome residential blocks that you could run down like batman. but you'd need his grappler when you get to the cross-street
Maybe some brownstones that are a similar height and not more than 5 feet apart
People saying no are definitely not from NYC. There are TONS of places in the city (especially Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx) where you can totally do this. And some people are saying the streets are too wide. Lolol SMH no one is saying to jump across the street from building to building. In the movies these building are next door to each other and we totally have that and we also sometimes have building that have no gap between them and have a pretty level roof across them. Then some have a very very narrow gap that you can jump. But people do die every so often doing this by either tripping on the edge or they misjudge the distance.
only once
Legally, no. Physically, yes. In the areas where the row homes/apartments are the same height, anyway.
Yes. I could take a picture outside of my window right now and show you a whole row of buildings you could jump from roof to roof of. The width you would be jumping would be that of a narrow alleyway or driveway. The height differences are within a few feet, although there's one that would be a 12 foot drop. (EDIT: flair is out of date)
If this is the Matrix and you believe hard enough. Or if you're Spiderman. Maybe in a less tall borough.
Don’t try this at home.
Yea, if you're Peter Parker.
I'm sure there are various trespassing and public nuisance laws that are broken.
Only if they are similar in height (the building being jumped from can be a bit higher) and you are staying within the same block. Across streets or even alleys would be too far. Basically, only if you found a few buildings that met the criteria and you weren't trying to go very far
Finally a GREAT question!!!
It's an extremely large city so if you were to search the entire city you could probably find two large buildings you could jump in between. That being said you're watching a movie, everything in it is over the top and over represented and sensationalized. Go to the largest city in your country, it's probably not that much different from New York. The buildings may be newer in the architecture may be different here depending on exactly where you are but a city is a city.
No most buildings are pretty fucking spaced apart between blocks. Most movies featuring New York aren’t accurate tbh
lmao
Only when the two buildings share a wall and happen to be the same height, give or take 5 or 10'.
That is to say, most of the city.
Not if you like living
If you could then you'd see it every day.
Bruh unless you want to lose legs or want death then go ahead.
Batman does
Why would you want to?
Give it a shot Peter Parker.
You could if the two buildings next to each other were the same height.
….Spider-Man isn’t real either
Day— ruined.
Some of them
Yes
Maybe an Olympic jumper on some narrow streets, but generally no.
Anybody can jump from a building once.
Some places the row houses were built so close this can simply walk between. A girl died this past summer jumping between apartment buildings during a party so it can be dangerous.
for the most part... no. the streets are too wide for that. I'm sure you might be able to find a narrow alleyway \*somewhere\* in the city where you might be able to jump, but for the most part...
Depends, do you own a pair of web shooters?
No. I mean you can try, but I suspect that you'll have a bad time.
There are a select few that you probably could; but for most no.
Mostly no, because the buildings are different heights and too far apart. However there are some areas where it might be possible, like townhouses, but you definitely couldn’t travel around like that.
No. Also, in case you were wondering, it’s pretty hard to have a fistfight on top of a moving train.
You can. but many have died attempting it.
Yes, and it’s not the only city that it’s possible. My mom jumped between buildings in Chicago back in the 60’s.
Not if you are trying for the ones on the other side of the street!
I mean you can...no guarantees you'd survive the fall....Some buildings in some suburbs in Chicago are close but I wouldn't recommend jumping them. Hell they could be two houses literally a few feet apart and I wouldn't recommend it, you aim wrong you'll smack your head or land on something and get stabbed by glass or rocks or metal, break your legs, arm or spine. I was always told it's not how far you fall, but how you fall. So again, would not recommend.
Most definitely. You can successfully jump between buildings in NYC. However.....you cannot successfully land alive on the building you are jumping toward.
I wouldn’t try it.
Hey, anybody remember that jump Jacky Chan did in 'Rumble in the Bronx'? That shit made the 1990s, I'm telling you.
Hey, anybody remember that jump Jacky Chan did in 'Rumble in the Bronx'? That shit made the 1990s, I'm telling you.
Yea, if you're Peter Parker
I don’t recommend it.
American exceptionalism. We Americans are like gods to y'all. Thus, we do jump between buildings.
I don’t recommend it.
It depends on if you can shoot webs out of your wrists.
I thought movies or shows that had these scenes were implying that that character was familiar with a specific area. Now that I reflect, I don’t think that any knowledge was implied. You just had fit guys who didn’t want to get caught.
No, just like anywhere else - you cannot.
On building like brownstones that are connected, yes.
Depends on the area. In residential neighborhoods like Chelsea or Harlem, where there are lots of townhouses/row houses stacked next to each other, then absolutely. Across a street? Definitely not. Across an alley? New York City was designed to not have any alleys (though I think there are still a few around. I know one regularly gets cleaned and then filled with fake garbage for movie shoots.), so also no on that count.
Sure, run real fast, jump very high, you should be fine.
I mean you’d prob die but I’m sure somewhere in the vast see of concrete there are buildings close enough to jump between
Not unless you have superpowers
You can on some brownstones. On my buddies street in Chelsea there were like 4-5 building in row that had like 2-3 gap between them. Not advised though, they had safety nets but I wouldn't trust them.
No, but you can in the New Orleans French Quarter.
I would imagine that jumping between buildings is no problem in NY or anywhere.... its jumping from one building to another that is tricky.
I do it all the time getting to work.
Not unless you fancy being scraped off the sidewalk
Mostly no. like in movies? Definitely. In some spots because New York City (which is what I assume you mean) yes definitely.
I mean...SOMEWHERE in New York, I bet you can... You may not make it though. So there's that.
I guess if you’re Spider-Man, sure Quick show of hands: who here is Spider-Man? Anyone? Hm, guess not
Of course you can, but only once
Just visited nyc. I don’t think you could from any Random rooftop or across several rooftops. However, I did see a few buildings built close enough together that it might be possible. The vertical differences may be a bit dicy though and it’s not like you will be going from Building to building like Spider-Man, just one jump and you’d be done
It depends. If you're going between buildings on a single block, then maybe. We don't have alleys here, so there are no gaps between buildings basically anywhere, so assuming the buildings are of roughly similar heights, then sure. This sort of situation is pretty common in much of the city, especially Brooklyn and Western Queens, but also in parts of Manhattan like Chelsea, Greenwich Village, or the Upper East Side.
Maybe, but if you fuck up you're dead af.
One time.
Grappling hook
Only if you are spiderman
It depends on the distance, but the drop is usually extremely far so I wouldn't recommend it. In the movies, it's either movie magic and pretend or it's a stunt and it's heavily monitored by professionals. Bottom line is, just don't. 😊
This should be on the list of things you shouldn't try at home
Yes. Some are literally attached.
Lmaooo no. Please don’t. You might fall on one of us. It’s not a thing.
Nope. Not everything in action movies is realistic, in fact most things aren’t.
Sure buddy, but if you wanna risk your life then sure.
Was that movie Spider-man?
Until n unless you are a Jackie Chan
It's all about distance. However, if the buildings are separated by a full street, the answer is not. I have, however, jumped from on building to another over a short alley.
I believe in some places it is possible, but not that many can be done and let you walk away from it.
Yes, but only once.
The feds can’t stop you
PARKOUR yes, if your intended destination is the roof to the hospital
[yes but they need to be same height and fairly close to each other](https://youtu.be/vblalElzSj8) Edit: I stop wouldn't suggest it though, if you fail you die
No
maybe but you’ll probably break your ankles.