New York City

G-Tech Elevator Rises to Challenge at Flatiron Building

G-Tech Elevator Associates LLC, founded in 2010 by Brock Glenn and his father, mobilized on-site at Manhattan's Flatiron Building in April to tackle the bulk of the elevator work for...

Labor Shortage Delays NYC Elevator Acceptance Tests

Consultancy VDA, Inc., issued a notice that scheduling acceptance testing for new elevator installations and modernizations in NYC is significantly delayed due to a labor shortage in the NYC Department...

Skyline Elevator System For New Brooklyn Residential Building

Skyline Elevators tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided an 11-stop, 3500-lb capacity elevator for 1615 Cedar Street, a new residential property with eight stories above ground in Midwood, Brooklyn, NY. The...

In Memoriam: David M. Childs

David M. Childs, the Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) architect best known for realizing One World Trade Center (WTC) and working with developer Larry Silverstein after 9/11 to rebuild Lower...

Worker Injured When Dumbwaiter Falls on Him in NYC

A worker sustained multiple trauma injuries as a result of a dumbwaiter falling on him in Midtown NYC on March 25, outlets including WABC report. A Century Elevator supervisor said...

Highride Provides Trio of Elevators for New Bronx Tower

Brooklyn, NY-based Highride Elevator Services tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a trio of elevators for 2123 Glebe Avenue, a new 13-story, 111-unit residential building in Westchester Square, Bronx, NY. The...

10-Elevator Modernization by TEI for Manhattan’s Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion

TEI Group tells ELEVATOR WORLD it will modernize 10 elevators — including installation of three new units — at 235 East 42nd Street, the 33-story former Pfizer headquarters that is...

New York Build 2025 Show Guide Goes Live as Event Approaches

Organizers of New York Build 2025 Expo, the largest construction and design show for the New York and tri-state region, announced the 2025 Show Guide is now live for the event planned on...

Fujitec Elevators for New Residential Development in Chelsea

Fujitec tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a five-unit elevator system for 335 Eighth Avenue, a nine-story mostly residential building designed by COOKFOX Architects and developed by MAG Partners and Mutual...

ECNY Announces Upcoming 2025 Events

The Elevator Conference of New York (ECNY) Board of Directors (BoD) has announced ECNY 2025 events and the deadline for scholarship application submissions, which is March 14. The first event...

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Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus

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Unsworth Joins LML Lift Consultants Senior Consultant

This July will mark 40 years since the beginning of Wurtec; image courtesy of Wurtec

Wurtec Celebrating 40th Anniversary

HydraSafe surveyed 17 elevators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with partner Claddagh, which will be providing a control system for single-plunger code compliance; photo by Hugo Schneider for Wikipedia.

HydraSafe Brake: NYC Training, a Move and a New Hire

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Hotels Prepare to Implement Recent Elevator Code Revisions