Brooklyn
Brief Power Outage in NYC Causes Elevator Entrapments
A brief power outage caused by a high-voltage piece of electrical equipment short circuiting at a Con Edison substation in Brooklyn, NY, shortly before midnight on December 14 caused “serious...
Three Elevators Open at Brooklyn Subway Station
Three elevators recently opened at Park Slope's 7th Avenue F and G station in Brooklyn, NY, making the station accessible after years of community support, Patch reports. The accessibility improvements...
Griffenkranz Passes NECD Operations Role To Mendoza
After a successful 35 years at Brooklyn, NY-headquartered National Elevator Cab and Door Corp. (NECD), Rosemarie Griffenkranz has retired, passing the NECD Operations role to Rudy Mendoza. Griffenkranz began her...
“Strangely Enchanting” Repurposed Domino Sugar Factory Completes With KONE VT
Various outlets, including the New York Post, recently reported that the Refinery at Domino, a 15-story, 460,000-ft2 office building that repurposes the 167-year-old Domino Sugar factory on the waterfront in...
Brooklyn Subway Station Modernization With Elevators Wins Award
The modernization of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) Livonia Avenue Station on the Canarsie subway line in Brooklyn, NY, was named the 2022 Project of the Year in the US$10...
Brooklyn Site Cleared To Make Way for Four-Building Residential Development
Machinery is onsite at 300 Nevins Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, ready to start construction on a four-building, 600,000-ft2 residential complex on the site of a recently cleared one-story warehouse,...
Elevators, Escalators and More Coming to Busy Brooklyn Transit Complex
Located in an area nicknamed "the dungeon" because it's arguably the darkest part of District 37 in Brooklyn, NY, according to City Council Member Sandy Nurse, the busy Broadway Junction...
Champion Elevator Expands NYC Footprint With Acquisition
Champion Elevator, headquartered in Manhattan, NYC, with locations in Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island, announced the acquisition of Brooklyn, NYC-based PRO Elevator Services Inc. on April 16. Champion observed...
Five Otis Traction Elevators for Two-Tower Coney Island Complex
Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it is providing five traction elevators for 1515 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY. Designed by Studio V Architecture and developed by LCOR, the property...
NYC MTA: “Deficient” GC Creates Problems for Elevator Project
Forte Construction Corp., a general contractor (GC) the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) describes as “deficient in supplying the contract-required documents to move items to completion” is at least partly...
