I know someone who lived in a converted office in FiDi. The building itself was fine, it seemed like any other luxury tower in the area, and the building's exterior was cool, but the hallways and floorplans were really weird because they needed to be long and snake around other stuff.

https://www.renttwentyexchange.com/apartments/ny/new-york/availability

This building was built in the 1930s, I bet living in an office building made after they all became glass boxes would be a lot worse.

> It’s not a difficult engineering task.

No, it very much is difficult and expensive. Consider how many toilets and sinks are on a floor and where they are located in an office building. There's probably a sink in the break room and a row or two of toilets, separated by gender. Now split up the floor plan into 6 apartments. Where do you set up (at least) 5 extra bathrooms and kitchens without completely ripping up the floors, which are probably concrete? Can the building handle that much water and and sewage out?

Personally the amount of junk I get has been drastically reduced post-midterm election. Somehow I got onto an ultra-right wing MAGA spam list, I was getting 4-6 messages a day telling me to support Ted Cruz or give all my money to some random fascist on the other side of the country. It was horrible. I would report every single one via this. No idea if this feature also helped cut down the spam but it feels good!