Liminality
2025-Nov-12, Wednesday 15:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Every once in a while I get lunch from the cafeteria on the 16th floor, when there's a popup restaurant that comes to visit (and sometimes when they don't). Here's an example when I went pick up Tandoor Char House, always a good meal. This time was Thai 55, and while I got curry I forgot that the curry was pretty perfunctory--meat, a bit of pineapple, sauce, rice, no vegetables. I made some notes for the future:
Anyway, that's not the point of this post. The point is that there's a bunch of offices on the 16th floor and none of them are occupied. Some of them still have chairs set up in meeting rooms with sealed doors. I took this photo:
...and it doesn't convey the eeriness at all because the camera enhanced the ambient light. There's half a dozen offices like this scattered around the floor and none of them have tenants, though there are some general conference rooms there as well (one of which was in use when I was looking around). This one I took a picture of was the only one with a name still on it, and when I looked up the law firm I found that their website, still updated this year, lists its location in our building as their address, but there's very obviously no one in there and nothing necessary to run a law firm. Meanwhile, this commercial real estate website shows that same address as being available for so which is it? The firm's website lists awards and publications that mostly stop in 2010, but other websites still list them. So, I have no idea if they exist or not.
I'd do the same and chase down some of the other rooms but all of them have nothing on the nameplates, just a suite number.
RESTAURANTS GOOD...so now I can check it when a new restaurant shows up and see if I want to go or not.
Arepas George
Tandoor Char House
RESTAURANTS BAD
Thai 55
Anyway, that's not the point of this post. The point is that there's a bunch of offices on the 16th floor and none of them are occupied. Some of them still have chairs set up in meeting rooms with sealed doors. I took this photo:
...and it doesn't convey the eeriness at all because the camera enhanced the ambient light. There's half a dozen offices like this scattered around the floor and none of them have tenants, though there are some general conference rooms there as well (one of which was in use when I was looking around). This one I took a picture of was the only one with a name still on it, and when I looked up the law firm I found that their website, still updated this year, lists its location in our building as their address, but there's very obviously no one in there and nothing necessary to run a law firm. Meanwhile, this commercial real estate website shows that same address as being available for so which is it? The firm's website lists awards and publications that mostly stop in 2010, but other websites still list them. So, I have no idea if they exist or not.
I'd do the same and chase down some of the other rooms but all of them have nothing on the nameplates, just a suite number.
