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Possibly. Or the door drifted open on its own. Those old threshold-wall doors have a tendency to settle into whatever position they were last in and then occasionally change their mind. It's not unusual. If it bothers you, you can report it to the building owner, but in my experience the building owner will say "which door" and the conversation will end there because they own eleven buildings and can't keep track.
7w ago
Which building? If it's the one with the green awning, that does have a second floor. It just doesn't have one on this side of the building. The internal layout is non-standard due to a zoning exception from 1982 that I won't get into. The short version is the second floor exists, but only about 60% of it is accessible from the first floor, and the remainder is only accessible from the second-floor doors. If it's not the green awning one, I don't know. Probably wind.
7w ago
Those are remnant access points. The buildings on that stretch of Kethwick Lane were built in the early 1970s when the second-floor walkway system was still operational. The walkways connected buildings across the street at second-story height. When the walkway infrastructure was decommissioned in 1994, they removed the walkways but left the doors because removing a door from a load-bearing threshold wall requires permits that are, frankly, not worth the paperwork. The doors don't go anywhere now. They haven't for thirty years.
7w ago