LCD Elevator System for New Church Facility in Manhattan

LCD Elevator Repair, Inc., headquartered in Mineola, NY, tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a two-elevator system for the 12-story Redeemer Presbyterian Church mixed-used facility at 150 East 91st Street in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side (UES) in Manhattan, NY. One of the gearless overhead traction elevators travels 11 stories and 146 ft with a capacity of 2500 lb, and the other travels 12 stories and 157 ft with a capacity of 3500 lb. Both travel at up to 500 ft/min. Both units have Hollister-Whitney machines; Motion Control Engineering controllers; Monitor Elevator Products fixtures; EDI/ECI cabs and entrances; GAL mechanical door equipment; and slings, platforms, rail brackets, governors and buffers by Hollister-Whitney. LCD project managers were David Regiec and Glen Clarke, who worked with general contractor Pavarini McGovern LLC. Designed by STUDIOS Architecture, the 170-ft-tall building includes a 300-person-capacity fellowship hall, a 600-seat auditorium, 17 classrooms and a catering kitchen, New York YIMBY reported.