New York City

TEI Awarded Contract for Elevators at Brooklyn Ambulatory Hub

TEI Group announced on March 8 it was awarded a contract by general contractor Suffolk Construction Co. to install three overhead traction passenger, one hydraulic passenger and two overhead gearless...

Clarkson + Varick Names Kirles Girgis Director of Engineering

National vertical-transportation consultancy Clarkson + Varick recently named Kirles Girgis director of engineering. With more than 10 years' experience in national leadership roles at Schindler and consulting firm Lerch Bates,...

Carlo Named VP of Service Operations at NYC-Based Centennial Elevator Industries

Anthony Carlo, who boasts a nearly 40-year career in the elevator industry, was recently named vice president (VP) of service operations at Queens, NYC-based Centennial Elevator Industries, Inc. He joined...

Otis Elevator System for Google’s New NYC HQ

Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided an elevator system for Google's new 12-story headquarters at St. John's Terminal, Manhattan, NYC, that includes 24 SkyRise® passenger elevators (four banks of six),...

NYC Industry Veteran Joins Start Elevator in New Business Development

NYC elevator industry veteran Christine Lypen joined Bronx, NY-based Start Elevator in March in new business development in the NYC and New Jersey areas. Lypen comes to Start from a...

Otis VT System for National Urban League Building in Upper Manhattan

Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a complete vertical-transportation (VT) system for the unique, mixed-use National Urban League building in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, NYC, a 141,000-ft2 property...

Seven-Elevator Schindler System for NYC’s Seventh Aloft Hotel

Schindler tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided five S7000 passenger and two S7000 service elevators to 450 Eleventh Avenue at Hudson Yards directly across from the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center...

“Cities in the Sky: The Quest To Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers” To Publish in May

Rutgers University Professor Jason M. Barr tells ELEVATOR WORLD his new book, “Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers,” will be published by Scribner Books...

FDNY Rescues 7 Passengers From Stuck Elevator at Empire State Building

New York City Fire Department (FDNY) crews rescued seven passengers stuck in an elevator at Manhattan’s Empire State Building — at 1,250-ft, one of NYC’s tallest buildings — at around...

TEI AWARDED CONTRACT FOR ELEVATORS AT BROOKLYN AMBULATORY HUB

TEI Awarded Contract for Elevators at Brooklyn Ambulatory Hub

Sara Marta, a refugee from Luanda, Angola, was hired in 2023 as an electromechanical assembler; image courtesy of Otis.

Otis Brazil Joins UN-Affiliated Companies With Refugees Forum

MEI-Total Elevator Solutions’ Mankato, Minnesota, manufacturing facility; image courtesy of MEI-Total Elevator Solutions

MEI-Total Elevator Solutions Investigating Fire at Minnesota HQ

Aull

Wittur Names Aull New CEO

(l-r) Legends Tower and the Boardwalk at Bricktown, designed by AO; image via the Robb Report

Developer of 1,907-Ft-Tall Oklahoma City Tower Says He’s Secured Financing