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Mid-American Provides Two ADA Elevators For NYC MTA Station

The NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) tells ELEVATOR WORLD that Mid-American Elevator provided two new elevators for the 14th Street 123 subway station in Manhattan, NYC. Unveiled on November 3,...

Lift Comm Collaborates with NYC MTA on Accessibility Upgrades

Lift Communications (Lift Comm), a subsidiary of TEC Solutions Concepts Inc. based in New Jersey, announced it is collaborating with the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on accessibility upgrades at...

MTA Releases Plan for Subway Station Without Elevator

New York State Sen. Cordell Cleare, chair of the committee on aging, wrote a letter in August calling on Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) chair and CEO Janno Lieber to include...

Mid-American Provides Three Elevators for MTA Bronx Subway Station

Family-owned and operated Mid-American Elevator, Chicago's largest independent elevator company, provided three new elevators to the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to enhance accessibility at the Bronx's Tremont Avenue subway...

Modern Elevator Part of Team for Bronx Station ADA Upgrade

Modern Elevator installed and will maintain two new elevators at the E 149 Street subway station in the southeast Bronx, NY, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) tells ELEVATOR WORLD. Modern...

NYC MTA Opens Three Elevators in Seven Days

The NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently opened new elevators, expanding access for riders by making the stations fully accessible. The MTA unveiled a brand-new elevator on the southbound platform...

NYC MTA Plans To Reassign Elevator Operators at Deep Manhattan Stations

NYC’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plans to reassign two dozen operators of elevators at five of the subway’s deepest stations in upper Manhattan, a move met by outrage from the...

South Korea Escalator Mishap That Injured 14 Investigated

Authorities are investigating a June 8 incident at the Sunae Station on the Bundang Line of the South Korea subway in which an escalator reversed direction, injuring 14 passengers, three...

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...

New Elevators at Brooklyn Subway Station Experience Problems

A trio of new elevators at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) Clark Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights, NYC, experienced at least 35 non-scheduled outages and 11 instances of entrapment...