20 Exchange Place, a 59-story residential apartment complex that overlooks the Financial District in Manhattan, has been described by some residents as “high-rise hell” because of the malfunctioning ...

Ten percent of the country’s elevators exist in New York State, and of that ten percent, a majority operates in New York City, where the many millions of us rely on elevators and other mechanical ...

Best is the chief engineer of the construction-and-development division at the MTA, and he and Jamie Torres-Springer, who ...

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 day for ...

An elevator mechanic's failure to execute basic safety procedures caused an elevator at a New York City building to plunge six stories and crush a co-worker to death, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Most New Yorkers don’t think twice about an elevator unless it's broken. But they will be forced to consider them more as thousands are due to be replaced in the coming years. In the five boroughs, ...

CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) -- The average elevator ride is pretty mindless. Get in, push the button and stare at the floor, wall or ceiling, and wait for your destination. But that may be changing, as ...

MANHATTAN, New York -- A 25-year-old man was killed after saving a woman and child from a malfunctioning elevator in Manhattan early Friday morning. Police say the victim, identified as Stephen Hewett ...

NEW YORK (WPVI) -- A 6-week-old baby died Thursday when her stroller accidentally plunged down an empty elevator shaft in a Brooklyn building. The infant's mother was waiting with the stroller on the ...

NEW YORK-- New elevators are in store for thousands of residents at New York City public housing buildings. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that 335 elevators at 20 NYCHA ...

SEA GATE, Brooklyn -- A 21-year-old woman in Brooklyn pushed her stroller carrying her 1 month old infant into an elevator when the doors opened, but the elevator car was not there, authorities said.