NEW YORK - Tenants in a Queens high-rise say faulty elevators have been an inconvenience for years, and now they say it has become dangerous. At the 38-story building known as Hunter's Point South ...

An elevator mechanic's failure to execute basic safety procedures caused an elevator at a New York City building to plunge six stories and crush a co-worker to death, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Nearly every New Yorker has to push a button and often wait some time for their automated elevator to arrive. Tony Sciallia, meanwhile, spends his days in a crisp gray uniform, pulling shut an ...

Most New Yorkers don’t think twice about an elevator unless it's broken. But they will be forced to consider them more as thousands are due to be replaced in the coming years. In the five boroughs, ...

Valerie Niemiec thought she was moving into a dream apartment with Statue of Liberty views — but repeated elevator failures ...

CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) -- The average elevator ride is pretty mindless. Get in, push the button and stare at the floor, wall or ceiling, and wait for your destination. But that may be changing, as ...

NEW YORK — Tenants in a six-story building in Queens say they were forced to climb stairs amid a six-week-long elevator outage. They say that's not the only problem that has gone ignored for too long.

NEW YORK -- A woman was killed in a freak elevator accident Wednesday at a Madison Avenue office building, police and fire officials said. The accident happened at about 10 a.m. in a 26-story office ...

EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A Brooklyn man is tired of inconsistent elevator service in his mother’s building. He said the final straw was having to walk up six flights of stairs every day for ...

SEA GATE, Brooklyn -- A 21-year-old woman in Brooklyn pushed her stroller carrying her 1 month old infant into an elevator when the doors opened, but the elevator car was not there, authorities said.

New York (Reuters) - A six-week-old baby girl died on Thursday after the stroller carrying her fell into an open elevator shaft on the 23rd floor of a Brooklyn apartment building, New York City police ...