NY property developers still superstitious about 13th floor

New York

IF you got on a plane on Friday morning, or traded a stock, or drove your car through an intersection, congratulations. You are too logical for medieval superstitions.

If you are not, you are in the good company of New York's boldest real estate developers. Twelve centuries after the Omens of Charlemagne's Death, they are still labelling the floor that comes after 12 as 14.