One of her roommates, Hadley Jensen, 23, said she felt a rush of emotions as the building shifted.
During the Pueblo I period most building shifted above ground, and a number of very large communities were built, some with more than 100 adjoining rooms.
Since apartments in the stately old building shifted from rentals to condominiums in 2008, the building has faced the threat of foreclosure, battles among owners who could not even agree to mediation, and renovation hassles for its remaining tenants.
Mr. Childs, who friends say sees the tower as a legacy project, redesigned the building, shifting the base away from West Street and inserting a thick concrete podium designed to lift the tower out of the path of a blast.
Handling a series of pink foam blocks, he talked to the camera about how, beyond a certain height, the primary load on a building shifts from being vertical (gravity) to being horizontal (wind).
At one point, two young members of the squad take turns shooting from different windows along the western side of the building, shifting from one window to another with each successive shot.
AT&T, which had a lot of fiber connections destroyed by the collapse of the Trade Center buildings, quickly installed a microwave antenna on the roof of the building, shifting telecommunications traffic from wires in the ground to signals in the air.
The Empire State Building shifts into a cool blue after Hillary Clinton wins #NYPrimary https://t.co/01DZRslJCz pic.twitter.com/shyvNDORQy.
On January 10 , 1935 the building shifted to within 2.5 feet from the edge of the cliff following a landslide caused by a severe storm.
These can break as the building shifts during raising/lowering or moving of the building.
