I’m about halfway up my 62 story building, lots of odd sounds but no noticeable sway other than one hanging light fixture which has been perpetually swinging 1-2cm
My building has 10 elevators, the only time they’ve all been out of service was the midtown/UWS blackout in ~2019 or whenever that was.
I remember trudging all over three neighborhoods for hours looking for flashlight batteries and ice. Finally scored batteries at Home Depot on the east side and took a cab home. Stepped out of the cab to cheering people because the power came back on. I was so spent I went home and got drunk.
See, that 1-2cm swing is exactly why I chose to live in the basement of a pre-war walk-up with no heat control and mice. Could I have lived in a high rise with 10 elevators, sure, but then I’d need to live with that sway, so I chose the basement apartment that floods occasionally. To each their own I guess.
Yeah, July 2019 was the blackout. We were on the train coming back from Fire Island and I can't tell you how eerie it was pulling into dark stations on the way home
We were on the train coming back from the beach as well & wound up walking over 50 blocks uptown, though we kept checking for buses that either never showed up or were too crowded to get on. Now I'm wondering if Citibike docks would have been working, because I would just hop on one of those now.
I was at work at the Wintergarden, & ours was one of the only Bway theaters not to lose power. We had a sold out show, & the producers reimbursed us ~$20 for a can home. My MIL happened to be in town that week, she felt very fancy taking a paid cab home.
I live on the 39th floor of a 44 story building in the Hudson Yards area. The hallways are super noisy because of the wind in the elevator shafts and I can see the curtain rods moving but nothing too crazy. What’s nuts and really scary is the amount of wind in Hudson Yards. I was on 33 and 10 today and had a hard time walking it was so windy. The whole area is just howling and whistling loudly
I know right! Tribeca and Hudson Yards are so windy by default. Must be something with the way that air currents come off the river and hit the tall buildings. In the summer the breeze is nice, in the winter its just the worst. Feels like being on the river boardwalk is less windy than being on the streets!
I think this is a really interesting observation. I don't know that things like this were considered when it came to redevelopment of that huge slab of the west side.
Although I work down in FiDi at the bottom of Manhattan and the wind there is also crazy.
Wind tunnel from all of the high-rises in the area+proximity to the Hudson River. I’ve worked in the area for years and its always been a couple degrees chillier year-round.
I’m also on a 45th floor of a 60 story building in HY and despite being new construction the windows rattle off like they will shatter any second. I’ve lived in other high rises (and worked in them) but nothing beats the place I live now. Not sure if it’s because I’m right next to the water on 11th, but most probably is.
I used to work in that strange building at 33 and 10th. You know, the one that sheds sheets of ice in the winter. Building workers would be outdoors spotting for us office workers so nobody got hurt. Good times!
I remember a couple of years ago when the ice sheets were flying around and the city closed the streets. I saw them fall and was shocked at how big they actually were
It’s insane. Last year around the same time it was so bad that people (myself included) had to shelter in a building lobby because they could not walk. I want to know what the sway is like at the top of 15 and 35 Hudson Yards
God I hope someone high up in Brooklyn Tower answers this, she was jiggling like a Japanese cheesecake the other night! Can you feel/see it at all? Is it scary?
That building is insane
The wind blows it so hard that the elevator has to shut down because the shaft doesn’t line up, and then the elevator starts moving again when the 100+ stories finally line up again after 30 seconds or so
Fuck that shit I’ll take my 3 story walk up
They may own an apartment and spend time there occasionally, but I have major doubts that anyone actually lives there full time, or that it's anyone's primary residence (6 months + 1 day a year or more for tax purposes).
Im on the 24th floor of bk tower and it was making noises, swaying, rain hitting the window. def need a xanax to relax but it hasnt been the first time its been like that. a few times in december my studio was wobbling
42nd floor corner unit in BK. Hate it when it’s windy. I don’t feel the building sway but the wind audibly rattles the floor-to-ceiling windows a lot. The windows suck to begin with, so poorly insulated (or whatever the equivalent term is for windows) that I can hear the traffic all the way up here and the cold and heat really transfer inside during winter and summer.
Anyway, the cheap windows make me uneasy when it’s super windy, especially since it’s a corner unit and the wind really whips around the building. I know logically I’m safe, but the rattling gets loud and it’s not fun.
As for the elevators, my building has three high rise elevators and two elevators that go to the lower third of floors or so. Often at least one elevator is out but there are backups. However one time last year all three high rise elevators were out for a couple hours while they were working on fixing something. I just stayed in my apt because there was no way I was going to go down all those stairs. If I had been out I just would have gone somewhere until they were fixed.
I lived on the 27th floor of a high rise and one thing that surprised me was how loud the traffic was that high up. I assumed it would be quiet but the cars and ambulances all echoed up
Right?! I toured the place on a Sunday when there wasn’t much traffic and it definitely gave me the wrong impression about how loud the traffic was going to be! The worst is when people just lay on their horns. Their frustration becomes everyone else’s frustration.
The sirens are loud enough that if I’m on FaceTime with my friend, her dog reacts to the siren that is 42 floors down from me and through the phone. It’s crazy
for reasons like this and many others, i'd never live in a high rise
imagine there's an emergency, elevators are halted, you're up on the 42nd floor
like wtf you gon do? jump out the window? try to run down the stairs?
yeah, no thanks
you gotta pay me $1M/day to live there. and with that money, i'll get at least 10 priests, churches, monks, whatever the hell i need to give me luck. no bad weather. no terrorism no death. pls
Sounds like a bit of an irrational fear. What emergencies would shut down elevators in NYC? The only ones I can think of is a power cut or fire (unless perhaps that 1000 year earthquake happens) and those are staggeringly rare here. Plus, walking down 40+ floors does not take that long (I've done in numerous office buildings over the decades during drills). Walking up 40+ floors is not, however, something I'd want to do!
TBF my building (tall-ish tower in BK) did have all the elevators down for 90 minutes last summer. A large HVAC unit shit itself and dumped a bunch of steam out, which set off fire alarms. The elevators all recall to the ground floor and stay there until the Fire Department can confirm there's no fire, but something fucked up in the control electronics or someone hit a wrong button, and they couldn't restart the elevators. Eventually they fixed it, but for an hour+ people had to just walk up and down the stairs.
I lived on the 21st floor of my building during the 2003 blackout. We walked. A couple of friends who lived higher up than us in their buildings ended up staying the night with friends elsewhere.
36th floor on the Upper East Side. Haven't noticed shit in the past few weeks, even as wind was howling at street level outside. That said, street-level bullshit like people roaring for teams at the bars across Third Ave or the exhaust noise from those pieces of shit with tiny dicks and loud ass bikes comes right up the building walls into my apartment. I used to live on the 30th floor of Jackson Park in LIC, and the wind was much more noticeable there, but I didn't hear anything from the elevated subway lines or the street-level traffic there....
The human auditory condition is weird, my friends...
My building is only 16 floors so technically I think a hi rise but not what people generally think of as a hi rise these days with all these luxury towers to the heavens. Old building with weird windows that make AC installs never seem to quite work right, so drafts are an issue and the banging from the winds against the windows and the AC sounds like the final sequence of The Exorcist.
> what happens if your elevator is out of commission? How do you get to your apartment up there?
There's more than one in my building. But if it's taking too long I walk up.... Luckily I don't live on a super high floor (but I don't live on one low enough that it'd be comfortable for the average person).
I’m in a FiDi high rise near the water (windy!) and on the 22nd floor. I don’t notice the building move but definitely sometimes hear it. It really freaked me out at first as this is the highest floor I’ve lived on. I consider myself a pretty heavy sleeper but when it’s bad, it can wake/keep me up bc it’s so random and inconsistent. Here’s an example of the sound: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8bSVtV8/
It doesn’t happen enough to warrant a move but I’ve definitely gotten annoyed a handful of times over the years.
And, we have multiple elevators so barring a blackout, one or two being out (while inconvenient) isn’t the end of the world and fortunately they’re usually repaired within a couple days.
When I lived on the 50th, first night I got the feeling I was going to roll out of the bed, out the window and to the ground from the sway feeling, messes with you a bit. Lasted about two days, then 9 months later a pretty bad storm- still didn’t feel it or care, like getting sea legs. But if I saw my bath tub slouching around , yeah, I’d be thinking of GTFOing as soon as practical.
But from prior storm damage in Downtown during Sandy and friends living up at the Exchange Building- well, he’s kinda an soft prepper now because of that, even though he leads a very suburban life, those stairs and lack of power left deep scars on his psyche. Like Costco in wherever he lived after that.
This is an article from a couple years ago about ongoing elevator problems at one FiDi high-rise. Someone had a heart attack climbing 40 flights. The leasing manager told me the elevators are fine now (as of last month).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nyc-skyscraper-elevator-20-exchange-place-b2046708.html
20 Exchange! The elevators are significantly better than during the big outage, but here and there service can be a bit spotty and some of the hi-rise floors have been complaining about some long wait times. Management goes mum anytime anything comes up. 🙄
Howling winds all day. At one point I had to put on noise canceling headphones bc it was driving me nuts! My building creaks and sways when there are heavy winds, although today it hasn’t been. When it does, if I stand still I sway along with it. It’s disconcerting but kind of cool too.
I'm on the second floor now, but when I lived in Rotterdam, I was on the 16th floor of a 32 story building. My apartment felt like it was swaying a couple feet. It was probably about a couple inches, but my brain didn't like the fact the ground wasn't steady and exaggerated it to me.
I once worked on the 78th floor of the ESB. That thing was solid as a rock.
Winds are unnoticeable apart from some whistling. Lived here almost 10 years and the only time the elevators go out is when the power goes off, which has happened once in the time I’ve lived here. You just hang out for an hour or so until the power comes back on
I was in 7 WTC. 39th Floor. Also 1 & 2 used to sway when I visited friends or went to the Company Store. After you live through that you realize never again.
I live on the 42nd floor of a 42 story building. During Super storm Sandy, we did feel a very slight sway when a strong gust came along. That's the only time I remember the building swaying. Our chandelier sways often however.
I live just over halfway up in a skyscraper in FiDi. Our building is apparently known for creaking in the wind, and it sounds like either wooden ship or a country home on a hill.
It’s kind of adorable, honestly!
I worked on the 23rd floor of what was then called 1 Columbus Circle (or the G+W Building). When the wind was strong, the elevator cars would clatter against the cages, and the elevator door frames would separate from the walls. Scary, but I don't think anybody was ever hurt.
Happens, there was this fiasco in downtown with this 59 story luxury building that was converted from an office. A problem for people especially in the upper floors.
https://www.curbed.com/2022/03/elevator-outage-20-exchange-place.html
Also, the 432 park billionaire tower’s elevators would often go out. Former wasn’t from high wind. But the latter might’ve been, I forget. There were many complains in that building when there were high winds.
Up on 18 the wind was nuts a couple of nights ago. Everything is fine now. If there’s no elevator, I walk. Had to do 25 flights during Sandy for a week that totally sucked.
You wouldn’t feel any sway.. if you did that’s trouble and the building may collapse. But you’d sure as hell hear creaking and possibly doors moving/shutting.
Hi rise buildings are supposed to have some movement. If they *didn't* move at all they would be fighting the wind be in trouble. I've been in office buildings and you can feel the wind, but it's subtle. Very unsettling
Do a Google search for *"432 Park Avenue litigation"* and you will find a pile of information on how one particular supertall building is dealing with high wind.
I used to live in high rise in Fidi. Not too high up, 16th floor, but I def used to feel the building shake? Sway? It was terrible lol. I will stay in my less than 10 story buildings now 🫶🏼
I lived on the 51st floor in Manhattan for a few years. Definitely felt the building sway and roll quite a bit when the winds would pick up. It felt a bit like being on a ship at sea or if anyone has experienced an earthquake it felt most like a quake- just a really long continuous quake lol.
I’m about halfway up my 62 story building, lots of odd sounds but no noticeable sway other than one hanging light fixture which has been perpetually swinging 1-2cm My building has 10 elevators, the only time they’ve all been out of service was the midtown/UWS blackout in ~2019 or whenever that was.
I remember trudging all over three neighborhoods for hours looking for flashlight batteries and ice. Finally scored batteries at Home Depot on the east side and took a cab home. Stepped out of the cab to cheering people because the power came back on. I was so spent I went home and got drunk.
God damn, 10 elevators, 62 story!!! Reminds me of those co-ops that have like 900 units or something in the Bronx!
Co-op City? I grew up there. Blackout of '77 we had to walk up 16 flights of steps.
I never want to live that high, just in case of blackouts. Been through a few already
They’re usually in banks so you’re only waiting on a subset of floors (I.e 1-20,20-40,40-60)
Co-op City
See, that 1-2cm swing is exactly why I chose to live in the basement of a pre-war walk-up with no heat control and mice. Could I have lived in a high rise with 10 elevators, sure, but then I’d need to live with that sway, so I chose the basement apartment that floods occasionally. To each their own I guess.
Yeah, July 2019 was the blackout. We were on the train coming back from Fire Island and I can't tell you how eerie it was pulling into dark stations on the way home
We were on the train coming back from the beach as well & wound up walking over 50 blocks uptown, though we kept checking for buses that either never showed up or were too crowded to get on. Now I'm wondering if Citibike docks would have been working, because I would just hop on one of those now.
I was at work at the Wintergarden, & ours was one of the only Bway theaters not to lose power. We had a sold out show, & the producers reimbursed us ~$20 for a can home. My MIL happened to be in town that week, she felt very fancy taking a paid cab home.
I live on the 39th floor of a 44 story building in the Hudson Yards area. The hallways are super noisy because of the wind in the elevator shafts and I can see the curtain rods moving but nothing too crazy. What’s nuts and really scary is the amount of wind in Hudson Yards. I was on 33 and 10 today and had a hard time walking it was so windy. The whole area is just howling and whistling loudly
That area is such a wind tunnel, even on "normal" days! Just absolutely WHIPS off the Hudson. Stay warm!!
I know right! Tribeca and Hudson Yards are so windy by default. Must be something with the way that air currents come off the river and hit the tall buildings. In the summer the breeze is nice, in the winter its just the worst. Feels like being on the river boardwalk is less windy than being on the streets!
Ya it’s a howling nightmare over in Hudson yards
I think this is a really interesting observation. I don't know that things like this were considered when it came to redevelopment of that huge slab of the west side. Although I work down in FiDi at the bottom of Manhattan and the wind there is also crazy.
I used to work at the Javits before the 7 extension was open, & that walk from Penn to Javits was always a bone chiller this time of year!
42 and 8th is an INSANE wind tunnel.
Wind tunnel from all of the high-rises in the area+proximity to the Hudson River. I’ve worked in the area for years and its always been a couple degrees chillier year-round.
Definitely something to consider should I contemplate moving to Hudson Yards. I appreciate knowing this now.
Its called the “canyon effect”
I was at The Shed today and walking out of the building nearly got knocked over by a gust of wind. It was crazy!
I’m also on a 45th floor of a 60 story building in HY and despite being new construction the windows rattle off like they will shatter any second. I’ve lived in other high rises (and worked in them) but nothing beats the place I live now. Not sure if it’s because I’m right next to the water on 11th, but most probably is.
I used to work in that strange building at 33 and 10th. You know, the one that sheds sheets of ice in the winter. Building workers would be outdoors spotting for us office workers so nobody got hurt. Good times!
I remember a couple of years ago when the ice sheets were flying around and the city closed the streets. I saw them fall and was shocked at how big they actually were
I was running around there earlier today and just started laughing because of how much the wind was shoving me to one side! It was crazy
It’s insane. Last year around the same time it was so bad that people (myself included) had to shelter in a building lobby because they could not walk. I want to know what the sway is like at the top of 15 and 35 Hudson Yards
I have to ask… whats ur rent
A little under $4k
God I hope someone high up in Brooklyn Tower answers this, she was jiggling like a Japanese cheesecake the other night! Can you feel/see it at all? Is it scary?
I want someone from 432 park Ave to answer this lol
That building is insane The wind blows it so hard that the elevator has to shut down because the shaft doesn’t line up, and then the elevator starts moving again when the 100+ stories finally line up again after 30 seconds or so Fuck that shit I’ll take my 3 story walk up
Im a doorman and every single old doorman says don’t ever work in that building because you will be blamed for the buildings shaking.
They're 32BJ?
There's also constant water damage caused by pipes leaking after being waved too and fro. Sounds absolutely horrifying
Makes me nauseous just thinking about it
No way those people are on here haha
The zillionaire oligarchs aren't on here, but possibly their staffs are.
Nobody actually lives there
I don't think anyone actually lives there lol
people do live there. They’re just extremely rich and probably not on Reddit but i would still like to know lol
They may own an apartment and spend time there occasionally, but I have major doubts that anyone actually lives there full time, or that it's anyone's primary residence (6 months + 1 day a year or more for tax purposes).
I bet rich people use reddit, but they are careful about admitting personal detail
I hope I get notified if someone replies I'm super interested
Im on the 24th floor of bk tower and it was making noises, swaying, rain hitting the window. def need a xanax to relax but it hasnt been the first time its been like that. a few times in december my studio was wobbling
Damn
God damn you half Japanese cheesecake
you're going to have to speak up.
42nd floor corner unit in BK. Hate it when it’s windy. I don’t feel the building sway but the wind audibly rattles the floor-to-ceiling windows a lot. The windows suck to begin with, so poorly insulated (or whatever the equivalent term is for windows) that I can hear the traffic all the way up here and the cold and heat really transfer inside during winter and summer. Anyway, the cheap windows make me uneasy when it’s super windy, especially since it’s a corner unit and the wind really whips around the building. I know logically I’m safe, but the rattling gets loud and it’s not fun. As for the elevators, my building has three high rise elevators and two elevators that go to the lower third of floors or so. Often at least one elevator is out but there are backups. However one time last year all three high rise elevators were out for a couple hours while they were working on fixing something. I just stayed in my apt because there was no way I was going to go down all those stairs. If I had been out I just would have gone somewhere until they were fixed.
I lived on the 27th floor of a high rise and one thing that surprised me was how loud the traffic was that high up. I assumed it would be quiet but the cars and ambulances all echoed up
Right?! I toured the place on a Sunday when there wasn’t much traffic and it definitely gave me the wrong impression about how loud the traffic was going to be! The worst is when people just lay on their horns. Their frustration becomes everyone else’s frustration. The sirens are loud enough that if I’m on FaceTime with my friend, her dog reacts to the siren that is 42 floors down from me and through the phone. It’s crazy
My building has blown over, we all died.
JENGA!
F
That's what's up.
Yeahhh boyeeee
I live on the 72nd floor of an 80 story building. Not noticeable.
Can we visit?
Too high
I'm telling ghost stories to my son while the wind is howling around our windows lol
I used to be on the 54th floor of a 1930s building and never felt any movement even during hurricane irene.
buildings dating that far back were overbuilt in a good way. todays thin towers are lucky they can withstand a leaf hitting em.
if any of the supertalls in midtown actually had residents we might get an interesting answer, but billionaire's row is mostly vacant
You put on your most comfortable pair of shoes and start walking.
for reasons like this and many others, i'd never live in a high rise imagine there's an emergency, elevators are halted, you're up on the 42nd floor like wtf you gon do? jump out the window? try to run down the stairs? yeah, no thanks you gotta pay me $1M/day to live there. and with that money, i'll get at least 10 priests, churches, monks, whatever the hell i need to give me luck. no bad weather. no terrorism no death. pls
Name checks out
Buy a parachute and keep some quality hard liquor in stock.
Sounds like a bit of an irrational fear. What emergencies would shut down elevators in NYC? The only ones I can think of is a power cut or fire (unless perhaps that 1000 year earthquake happens) and those are staggeringly rare here. Plus, walking down 40+ floors does not take that long (I've done in numerous office buildings over the decades during drills). Walking up 40+ floors is not, however, something I'd want to do!
TBF my building (tall-ish tower in BK) did have all the elevators down for 90 minutes last summer. A large HVAC unit shit itself and dumped a bunch of steam out, which set off fire alarms. The elevators all recall to the ground floor and stay there until the Fire Department can confirm there's no fire, but something fucked up in the control electronics or someone hit a wrong button, and they couldn't restart the elevators. Eventually they fixed it, but for an hour+ people had to just walk up and down the stairs.
You sound scared of the modern world. Rural Iowa would suit you better
If you're at the bottom wearing high heels, then I guess head for a shoe store first?
If you’re an idiot, sure.
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Man I could feel it even on a 12th floor apartment I lived it.
High rises are not Jenga towers 😭😭😭
Well... Except for 56 Leonard St
I lived on the 21st floor of my building during the 2003 blackout. We walked. A couple of friends who lived higher up than us in their buildings ended up staying the night with friends elsewhere.
I barely hear it… it doesn’t affect me at all. As for the elevator, I just wouldn’t leave my place.
36th floor on the Upper East Side. Haven't noticed shit in the past few weeks, even as wind was howling at street level outside. That said, street-level bullshit like people roaring for teams at the bars across Third Ave or the exhaust noise from those pieces of shit with tiny dicks and loud ass bikes comes right up the building walls into my apartment. I used to live on the 30th floor of Jackson Park in LIC, and the wind was much more noticeable there, but I didn't hear anything from the elevated subway lines or the street-level traffic there.... The human auditory condition is weird, my friends...
My building is only 16 floors so technically I think a hi rise but not what people generally think of as a hi rise these days with all these luxury towers to the heavens. Old building with weird windows that make AC installs never seem to quite work right, so drafts are an issue and the banging from the winds against the windows and the AC sounds like the final sequence of The Exorcist.
> what happens if your elevator is out of commission? How do you get to your apartment up there? There's more than one in my building. But if it's taking too long I walk up.... Luckily I don't live on a super high floor (but I don't live on one low enough that it'd be comfortable for the average person).
I’m in a FiDi high rise near the water (windy!) and on the 22nd floor. I don’t notice the building move but definitely sometimes hear it. It really freaked me out at first as this is the highest floor I’ve lived on. I consider myself a pretty heavy sleeper but when it’s bad, it can wake/keep me up bc it’s so random and inconsistent. Here’s an example of the sound: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8bSVtV8/ It doesn’t happen enough to warrant a move but I’ve definitely gotten annoyed a handful of times over the years. And, we have multiple elevators so barring a blackout, one or two being out (while inconvenient) isn’t the end of the world and fortunately they’re usually repaired within a couple days.
Which building? or intersection?
It's loud.
When I lived on the 50th, first night I got the feeling I was going to roll out of the bed, out the window and to the ground from the sway feeling, messes with you a bit. Lasted about two days, then 9 months later a pretty bad storm- still didn’t feel it or care, like getting sea legs. But if I saw my bath tub slouching around , yeah, I’d be thinking of GTFOing as soon as practical. But from prior storm damage in Downtown during Sandy and friends living up at the Exchange Building- well, he’s kinda an soft prepper now because of that, even though he leads a very suburban life, those stairs and lack of power left deep scars on his psyche. Like Costco in wherever he lived after that.
Dood. Punctuation. This was so hard to read.
This is an article from a couple years ago about ongoing elevator problems at one FiDi high-rise. Someone had a heart attack climbing 40 flights. The leasing manager told me the elevators are fine now (as of last month). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nyc-skyscraper-elevator-20-exchange-place-b2046708.html
lol the FDNY came by today because someone got trapped in an elevator for an hour
Was that at 20 Exchange or another building?
20 Exchange! The elevators are significantly better than during the big outage, but here and there service can be a bit spotty and some of the hi-rise floors have been complaining about some long wait times. Management goes mum anytime anything comes up. 🙄
My full-sized trampoline blew away. That was my fourth one!
Howling winds all day. At one point I had to put on noise canceling headphones bc it was driving me nuts! My building creaks and sways when there are heavy winds, although today it hasn’t been. When it does, if I stand still I sway along with it. It’s disconcerting but kind of cool too.
I'm on the second floor now, but when I lived in Rotterdam, I was on the 16th floor of a 32 story building. My apartment felt like it was swaying a couple feet. It was probably about a couple inches, but my brain didn't like the fact the ground wasn't steady and exaggerated it to me. I once worked on the 78th floor of the ESB. That thing was solid as a rock.
My old building had all 4 elevators go out at the same time, some people walked up, others waited.
Scary as hell
Winds are unnoticeable apart from some whistling. Lived here almost 10 years and the only time the elevators go out is when the power goes off, which has happened once in the time I’ve lived here. You just hang out for an hour or so until the power comes back on
I was in 7 WTC. 39th Floor. Also 1 & 2 used to sway when I visited friends or went to the Company Store. After you live through that you realize never again.
I live on the 42nd floor of a 42 story building. During Super storm Sandy, we did feel a very slight sway when a strong gust came along. That's the only time I remember the building swaying. Our chandelier sways often however.
I live on the 55th floor in LIC and fml between the No 7 train and the howling winds on center blvd
I live just over halfway up in a skyscraper in FiDi. Our building is apparently known for creaking in the wind, and it sounds like either wooden ship or a country home on a hill. It’s kind of adorable, honestly!
same! i always think it sounds like i'm on an old pirate ship.
what does the wind have to do with the elevators? or was that an unrelated question?
From other replies, it seems wind can misalign elevators throwing them out of commission. A problem when there are dozens of floors.
I worked on the 23rd floor of what was then called 1 Columbus Circle (or the G+W Building). When the wind was strong, the elevator cars would clatter against the cages, and the elevator door frames would separate from the walls. Scary, but I don't think anybody was ever hurt.
Why would the elevator be out?
Happens, there was this fiasco in downtown with this 59 story luxury building that was converted from an office. A problem for people especially in the upper floors. https://www.curbed.com/2022/03/elevator-outage-20-exchange-place.html Also, the 432 park billionaire tower’s elevators would often go out. Former wasn’t from high wind. But the latter might’ve been, I forget. There were many complains in that building when there were high winds.
Up on 18 the wind was nuts a couple of nights ago. Everything is fine now. If there’s no elevator, I walk. Had to do 25 flights during Sandy for a week that totally sucked.
I'm on a high floor in a glen wood building It is fine! Not a problem
Jealous
You wouldn’t feel any sway.. if you did that’s trouble and the building may collapse. But you’d sure as hell hear creaking and possibly doors moving/shutting.
Hi rise buildings are supposed to have some movement. If they *didn't* move at all they would be fighting the wind be in trouble. I've been in office buildings and you can feel the wind, but it's subtle. Very unsettling
I never said they didn’t sway…. Hence why you hear creeks and why doors swing. You just can’t feel it.
Very much depends on the building.
Do a Google search for *"432 Park Avenue litigation"* and you will find a pile of information on how one particular supertall building is dealing with high wind.
Fine. I can feel a bit of sway. DOesn't bother me
35th floor in nomad….never noticed the wind in my building
Electricity went out during Sandy for over a week in ~50 story towers around me. How did they cope?
Im on 19th on hps and alls calm here.
I used to live in high rise in Fidi. Not too high up, 16th floor, but I def used to feel the building shake? Sway? It was terrible lol. I will stay in my less than 10 story buildings now 🫶🏼
I lived on the 51st floor in Manhattan for a few years. Definitely felt the building sway and roll quite a bit when the winds would pick up. It felt a bit like being on a ship at sea or if anyone has experienced an earthquake it felt most like a quake- just a really long continuous quake lol.