New York City

KONE Monospace MRLs for Mid-Rise Buildings in Two NYC Boroughs

KONE tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided one MonoSpaceTM 500 DX machine-room-less (MRL) elevator each to two new seven-story residential buildings in Flushing, Queens, and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. At 138-25 Barclay...

KONE Provides New Elevators for Repositioned Manhattan Office Building

KONE tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided 16 new elevators with destination dispatch for the former CBS headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, NYC, a 38-story office building originally designed by Eero Saarinen...

“Cities in the Sky” Book Launch Reception on May 15 in NYC

A book launch reception is planned for May 15 from 6-8 p.m. at Rizzoli Book Store at 1133 Broadway between 25th and 26th streets in Manhattan, NYC, for “Cities in...

Otis Elevator System for New Manhattan Residential Tower

Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a three-elevator system to The Rockwell, a new 13-story residential building at 2688 Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The system includes two Gen3...

Hudson Yards’ Vessel Set To Reopen

The Thomas Heatherwick-designed Vessel in Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s far West Side is set to reopen "at some point this year" after closing indefinity in 2021 in the wake of...

TEI Group’s Southeast Expansion Continues With Hire of Monette

NYC-headquartered TEI Group continues its Southeast expansion with the hire of Jim Monette as a regional sales consultant. Monette brings decades of hands-on experience as an elevator salesman, coupled with...

NYC DOB To Revoke Company’s Course-Provider Status After Indictment

NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) Commissioner Jimmy Oddo said the department intends to revoke the DOB-approved course provider status of Brooklyn-based Valor Consulting, a company that previously provided OSHA and...

Agreement To Support US$10-Billion Midtown Bus Terminal in Manhattan Announced

In March, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) announced a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT)...

Wynn Resorts and Related Unveil Rendering of Manhattan’s Hudson Yards West

Wynn Resorts and Related Cos. unveiled renderings showing Hudson Yards West, the second phase of the Hudson Yards megadevelopment on Manhattan's far west side, The Architect's Newspaper is among outlets...

EXP To Provide Design-Build Services for NYC MTA Escalator-Replacement Project

EXP Services P.C., a global engineering, architecture, design and consulting firm, has been selected with lead contractor Skanska to perform design-build services for the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) replacement...

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Vertical Building Extension Method Launches in the U.K.

Members of Hyundai Elevator's choir of disabled people pose at Kangwon National University's Baeckryung Art Center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province; image courtesy of Hyundai Elevator via The Korea Times

Hyundai Choir of Disabled People Wins Silver Prize at National Competition

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India’s ECE Elevators Launches New Ad Campaign

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KONE Awarded EcoVadis 2024 Sustainability Gold Medal

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC ACQUIRES NORWAY’S ALT HEIS

Mitsubishi Electric Acquires Norway’s ALT Heis