New York

Developers Promote Design For Mixed-Use Tower In Yonkers

Developers promoting a residential/commercial tower in Yonkers, New York, have released renderings of the 25-story building, New York YIMBY reports. Known as The Miroza Tower, the building will offer 250 rental units...

GENCO Maintenance Operations Merged Into Champion

Champion Elevator, headquartered in Manhattan, NYC, with locations in Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island, announced in February it is merging the maintenance operations of Queens, NYC-based GENCO Elevator Inc....

Elevator Construction Begins On Brooklyn Subway Station

Construction has begun for long-wanted elevators at the 7th Avenue subway station in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, Brownstoner was among sources to report in February. Passengers, many of them...

Harlem Residents Call For Elevator Installation At Station

Harlem, NYC, residents are making a push for an elevator-installation project at the 1 line, 125th Street Broadway station, Patch reports. In a letter sent to New York Gov. Kathy...

Brooklyn’s Olympia Residential Tower Makes Progress

The 33-story residential building Olympia in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC, has made a great deal of progress, with the top already reached and a good bit of the...

D&D Elevator And Solid State, Both Of New York, Join Forces

D&D Elevator Maintenance, headquartered in Elmsford, New York, and Solid State Elevator, based in Bronx, New York, announced on February 7 they have combined their resources in an effort to...

MTA projects, record-breaking towers and more

MTA Cuomo Announces East Side Access Civil Construction Completion On May 27, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced completion of civil construction on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) East Side Access megaproject....

Remarkable skyscrapers and their remarkable elevators distinguish Big Apple happenings

United Cabs Restructures, Expands and Taps a Leader Rios A new entity, United Vertical Group, has been formed to represent United Cabs Inc.’s elevator cab products and United Metals Corp.’s...

1,100-ft Supertall Proposed for West 57th Street in NYC

The NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) indicates that planning is underway for a mixed-use, 1,100-ft-tall tower at 41-47 West 57th Street, New York YIMBY reported. The development applicant, BOB 57, LLC, is...

New York YIMBY reports on Manhattan towers, and TEI Group shares personnel news

New Renderings of Supertall in Penn District Redevelopment Penn 15 New renderings of the 1,270-ft-tall, 61-story Penn 15, part of Vornado Realty Trust’s ambitious Penn District redevelopment plan (ELEVATOR WORLD,...

The machine is transported to the site; image courtesy of Champion Elevator.

Challenging Hudson Valley Modernization a “Testament to Teamwork”

Oakland, California, Councilmember Carroll Fife; image courtesy of City of Oakland

Oakland Passes Residential Elevator Maintenance Ordinance

NEW ESCALATORS AT TWO BENGALURU, INDIA RAILWAY STATIONS

New Escalators at Two Bengaluru, India Railway Stations

18-YEAR-OLD WORKER DIES AFTER FALLING DOWN ESCALATOR SHAFT

18-Year-Old Worker Dies After Falling Down Escalator Shaft

FATALITY IN CHINESE SHOPPING MALL AFTER GLASS RAILING GAVE WAY

Fatality in Chinese Shopping Mall After Glass Railing Gave Way