WITH a thud, 75 Wall Street, a huge hotel-and-luxury-condominium building, has landed in the financial district — another residential offering typical of the area, where it seems a weekend's-worth of amenities can be experienced in the course of an elevator ride.
2. Craft a couple of elevator pitches.
In other parts of the world, of course, elevator cables were snapping, airplanes were crashing, ships were sinking, motor vehicles were breaking their axles, bridges were collapsing, and on and on.
"Of course the elevator was completely compromised.
We finally made it to the hotel, and it was scalding hot, humid, no air-conditioning, and, of course, the elevator didn't work.
The workers, who struck during the course of the week, are elevator operators, main tenance men and superintend ents, mostly in Manhattan buildings.
Local court buffs needn't be envious: in the course of a day's elevator hopping, in downtown Brooklyn, it was possible to observe a tabloid trifecta of criminal proceedings — terrorism, the Mob, and embezzlement by politicians.
Local court buffs needn't be envious: in the course of a day's elevator hopping, in downtown Brooklyn, it was possible to observe a tabloid trifecta of criminal proceedings terrorism, the Mob, and embezzlement by politicians.
All accessible of course via private elevator.
Muzak was soon found in offices, waiting rooms, hotel lobbies, the White House and, of course, elevators, to calm the nerves of anxious passengers.
