Monday, September 23, 2019

Parachutes should come with every room above the 15th floor


The Daily Mail reported that Central Park Tower topped out.  It's top deck will be higher than the top deck of One World Trade Center, but OWTC's top mast will give it the higher point.

Central Park Tower will have 112 floors, and the top penthouse list price is $63 million dollars.

Nice digs.  But I worried about one thing.  What if there's a fire, or another kind of accident that prevents the people living near the top from getting down the elevator or the stairs?

Do they get parachutes for emergency evac?  I'm actually serious about this.

I could not confirm that they do, but I can confirm other people have asked a similar  question.

Literally, it seems to me that they would have to at least offer the option to high-floor buyers.  After all, they are for sale.

And furthermore, they work. The 15th floor requirement?  That's the minimum height that it would work for, i.e., open in time.  That's not a problem on the 101st floor, but one would hope that the ride down doesn't cause a heart attack when the parachute is trying to save their life.   (But where would you practice using it?)





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