Completed in 1870, the city's first skyscraper (at Broadway and Cedar Street) amazed New Yorkers, and thousands lined up to take rides in its elevators.
Under the settlement, in the form of a consent decree, the Met has agreed to install additional wheelchair seating, raised letter or Braille signs and accessible drinking fountains, renovate its restrooms and concession stands and eliminate barriers to accessibility in its elevators.
"They don't have enough competent people with the proper training," said Michele O'Toole, the president of J. Martin Associates, which the transit agency hired in 2006 to evaluate its elevator operations.
The action affects a fairly small number of workers, but coupled with an accompanying statement by the authority's acting chairman, it amounts to one of the strongest public pronouncements yet by a housing authority official of the need to shore up its elevator division in the wake of a death of a 5-year-old boy in August in an elevator accident in a Brooklyn public housing project.
Since 2010, the 18-floor High Line property in New York City has been using its elevator to screen a continuous loop of videos created by artist/director Marco Brambilla.
Despite his efforts, the pavilion remains in significant disrepair, its elevators rusted in place and its stairwells rotting.
Staggering with my bag, I darted through the traffic of the Via C. Cavour, found the address across the street, and went up a floor to the Europa in its small, creaky elevator.
By T. Kraseman and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, April 4 , 1964P. 36 The Dept. of Commerce Building in Washington has automatic elevators in its main lobby (where visiting businessmen enter) and manually operated elevators on the rest of the premises.
I stayed out of sight in hallways and in the dark corners of the public rooms; I didn't beg to operate the elevator in its ornate iron cage, even after Horace had taught me to spin the wheel so expertly that the floors met without the slightest gap.
Shapeup uses simple calls to actions such as "Park further away" and "Take the stairs instead of the elevator" in its performance emails to double the amount of weight lost by their users.
