Brooklyn
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...
Six New Elevators at Two Brooklyn Stations Mark Milestone
An array of accessibility upgrades at the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) Metropolitan Avenue and Lorimer Street stations in Brooklyn, NY, including six new elevators — three at each station...
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...
TEI Awarded Contract for Elevators at Brooklyn Ambulatory Hub
TEI Group announced on March 8 it was awarded a contract by general contractor Suffolk Construction Co. to install three overhead traction passenger, one hydraulic passenger and two overhead gearless...
Champion Elevator Promotes Baez to Accounts Payable Director
NYC-headquartered Champion Elevator Corp. recently promoted Amy Baez from payroll and compliance manager to director of accounts payable. Baez now leads the accounts payable department alongside her current responsibilities, "ensuring...
The Skyscraper Museum Presents Free Webinar on Residential High-Rises in NYC
The Skyscraper Museum, a nonprofit educational entity devoted to studying the past, present and future of high-rise buildings, plans to resume its “semester” series on The Modern Concrete Skyscraper on...
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...
