This is a fun piece of audio of some city girls sitting outside talking smack, welcoming people to a party they were throwing in apartment 4A.
I have taken slight issue over the years with how the apartments in this building are numbered. 4A is on the first floor, not the 4th, as one might assume. I had thought this issue was unique to this building, or at least unusual, but a conversation with a firefighter revealed that New York’s apartment numbering formats are wildly inconsistent. He said he responded to a fire once where one apartment was 2L, the other one was 2R. The letters L and R indicated Left and Right. Another building had apartments 2F and 2B, for Front and Back. So really, there is no strict format for these things.
Apartment numberings had been a blip on my radar on account of a letter I received from the city of Daytona Beach years ago, while I was still in charge of my late father’s rental property. The city wrote to inform me that the apartment numberings in the building had to be changed to conform to some kind of safety code that emergency responders expect. I had no choice in the matter but felt bad for the residents, who basically had to submit to a change of address.
