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Source: New York City Department of Buildings. As of 2015, there were more than 76,000 elevator devices in New York — basically anything that moves people up and down.
Search by your address on The Real Deal’s exclusive interactive map to see any elevator-related violations lodged with New York City’s Department of Buildings since the 1980s.
NEW YORK — Tenants in a six-story building in Queens say they were forced to climb stairs amid a six-week-long elevator ...
Tony Sciallia spends his days in a crisp gray uniform, manually transporting riders up and down one of Manhattan’s last remaining hand-operated elevators.
Reporting from New York — They are the elevators that scale the tower of power. Through their gold-hued doors step courtiers and critics, job-seekers and publicity hounds. Punching the “up ...
NEW YORK -- Half a dozen people got trapped in an Empire State Building elevator Thursday night. The whole ordeal started around 6 p.m. when the elevator got stuck on the 16th floor.
In New York City, landlords are required to have an active contract with an approved elevator company, and to make needed repairs immediately. By Jill Terreri Ramos Q: We live in a nice multistory ...
EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A Brooklyn man is tired of inconsistent elevator service in his mother’s building. He said the final straw was having to walk up six flights of stairs every ...
New York City alone contains 70,000 of the world’s elevators, according to the Department of Buildings. A look at the historic elevators in this city tells a fascinating story of technological ...
NEW YORK — Tenants in a six-story building in Queens say they were forced to climb stairs amid a six-week-long elevator outage. They say that's not the only problem that has gone ignored for too ...
NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Tenants in a six-story building in Queens say they were forced to climb stairs amid a six-week-long elevator outage. They say that’s not the only problem that has ...
NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — Tenants in a six-story building in Queens say they were forced to climb stairs amid a six-week-long elevator outage. They say that’s not the only problem that has ...