Tuesday, the floor-to-ceiling-size glass panel, encased in a metal frame, fell more than 50 stories from the Bank of America building and shattered on a shed on the opposite side of 42nd Street, officials said.
According to Consumer Reports, ceiling fan size should correspond with the size of the room in which the fan will be installed.
Because for every street of neon and lights, there is another in Las Vegas where you can walk around an Italian lake, stare at a fresco painted ceiling the size of a battleship, ride a gondola under canal bridges, or admire what appears to be centuries old architecture.
Colorful canvases, some of them floor-to-ceiling in size, decorate the high walls of the former warehouse building.
The rooms are all over-scaled in terms of the height of the ceilings and size of the doors, large fireplaces, and the length and breadth of the stairway to the house's second floor.
Choose a drill bit so that the holes in the ceiling are sized so that the drilled hole is slightly larger than the shank of the wood screw, not the threads.
James Cornell, Leslie Marshall, the Corcoran Group (718) 923-8081; www.corcoran.com Open house Sunday, 1 to 3 p.m. COMMON CHARGE: $411 a month; taxes: $341 a month PROS: In the heart of Brooklyn's cultural district, this old-school loft still has its high ceilings, industrial-size windows, oak plank floors and wooden columns, now spiffed up to fit a minimalist aesthetic.
There are vaulted ceilings, gallery-size walls, four bedrooms, 61/2 bathrooms and 8,800 square feet of living space.
But nobody really knows whether such limits provide a ceiling to house size or, perversely, a minimum.
But think of it this way: two pints will cover about 20 square feet of ceiling, about the size of the average foyer.
The high-technology boom, ironically, is rehabilitating buildings that had been dismissed as obsolete, because of their size, ceiling height or amount of room for parking.
