Stepping into an elevator and a reminder of Seoul

Stepping in an elevator, I notice that the basement floors are labeled as B1 and B2, instead of the usual, plain old B. For example, B1 is the basement floor and B2 is the floor below B1 (which is usually known as a sub-basement). If there is a B3, then it would be below B2, and so on. This reminds me of Korean elevators, since many elevators found in Korea, especially Seoul, label basement floors as B1, B2, B3, etc., but this elevator is indeed in Flushing, Queens, New York.

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• elevator
• basement
• floors
• reminder
• of
• Seoul
• Korea
• Flushing
• Queens
• New
• York
• B1
• B2

[mikeeey]

IN KOREA U EAT DOGS!!!

[NHRHS2010]

Is that really true? I am Korean but I never eaten a dog before. In fact I have heard something of people eating dogs in China...

[elevatorfan762]

Exactly it is a ThyssenKrupp.

[buginafugreturns]

ThyssenKrupp elevator

[NHRHS2010]

Actually, the floors below B1 and B2 in Korea are mainly parking garages. I'm sure there is some in the United States, but they rarely use B1 B2 B3 method. I remember seeing that in one building, there was a basement floor labeled as B, and the floor below that was SB. Anyways, multiple basements are common in big cities; this building is located in Flushing, Queens, which is part of New York City. In Europe, they use negative numbers as basement floors.