New York City

Modern Elevator Provides Two ADA Units for Brooklyn Station

Modern Elevator installed and manufactured two Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant elevators at the Bay Ridge-95th Street NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) station in Brooklyn, NY, according to MTA, which...

Two Modernized Elevators Open on NYC’s Upper West Side

Two new elevators recently opened for riders at the 66th Street-Lincoln Center 1 train station on the Upper West Side in NYC, the West Side Rag reports. The new elevators were funded...

Elevator Service in NYCHA Developments Disrupted by Power Surge

Elevator service in dozens of NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments across the city was disrupted by, according to city officials, a power surge on June 25, PIX11News reports. Six developments on the...

LiftComm Enhances NYC MTA Station Elevator Safety, Security

LiftComm, a provider of communication solutions for the transportation industry, recently completed jobs in Midtown Manhattan and the Bronx, NY. As part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) modernization of...

In Memoriam: Peter J. Hitsous

Lifelong Staten Island, NY, resident Peter J. Hitsous, who had a distinguished career with Allstar Elevator and Otis, from which he retired, passed away on March 12 at age 70....

TEI Providing Three Elevators For Bronx Hip Hop Museum

TEI Group told ELEVATOR WORLD it is installing three elevators for The Hip Hop Museum, a project at 585 Exterior Street that will anchor Bronx Point, a 585,000-ft2 mixed-used complex...

G-Tech Provides Elevators for New Brooklyn Tower

G-Tech Elevator Associates tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided four elevators for 499 President Street, a 10-story, 350-unit residential tower designed by SLCE Architects and developed by the Brodsky Organization and...

TKE Elevator System for New Brooklyn Residential Tower

TK Elevator (TKE) tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided six engineered gearless and one engineered hydraulic elevators at The Brook, a new 51-story residential building at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown...

NYC DOB To Allow Third-Party Inspection Through End of Year

Under a pilot program, the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) approved third-party elevator agencies to perform acceptance tests for new elevator installations, alterations and modernization work through December 31. Acceptance...

Otis Elevator System for Queens Affordable Housing Tower

Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a four-unit elevator system for Edgemere Commons B1, a 15-story affordable housing complex designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Tishman Speyer's TS Communities...

CAUTION URGED AFTER FATAL ESCALATOR FALL IN CANADA

Caution Urged After Fatal Escalator Fall in Canada

One of the new elevators; image courtesy of MTA

Modern Elevator Provides Two ADA Units for Brooklyn Station

AZERBAIJANI-CHINESE VT FACTORY TO LAUNCH IN AZERBAIJAN

Azerbaijani-Chinese VT Factory in Azerbaijan

Elevators were installed in wooden shafts using a certified, high-efficiency assembly method; image courtesy of Schindler.

Schindler Provides 32 Elevators for New Berlin Schools

Biodiverse plan for 1 Silk Street; image courtesy of SOM

1980s London Buildings to Make Way for New Tower Plan