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The one room in your apartment with no rent and a skyline view.
means The flat or sloped outer covering of a building, especially one usable as an outdoor space.
from A straightforward compound of 'roof' — from Old English 'hrof,' meaning the top covering of a house, related to similar words in other Germanic languages for a ceiling or vault — plus 'top,' marking the uppermost point. No hidden story here: it's exactly what it sounds like, the top of the roof, which English speakers started using to mean the surface itself sometime in the medieval period.
- origin trick
- flat roofs became social spaces mainly in dense cities
- nyc law
- many rooftops legally capped at sunset for noise
- real estate quirk
- access to one can raise an apartment's value notably
- bar economics
- drinks cost more purely for the altitude, not the alcohol