"These are duty-restricted employees who operate elevators which do not require manual operation," Mr. Groce said.
Most modern elevators are automatic, using various control systems to operate elevators individually or in groups.
Residents of many buildings had been asked to pitch in to sort the mail, announce visitors by intercom, operate elevators and haul garbage to the curb if necessary.
The transit agency declined to comment directly on the community's actions, but Paul Fleuranges, an agency spokesman, said, "We believe that people in Washington Heights can operate elevators on their own, as riders do at other stations throughout the system".
Agricultural markets find that low precipitation generally leads to low yields, which can affect not only the producers but grain handlers such as companies that operate elevators, railroads, barge transportation, processors and a myriad of other related industries.
Imagine it was an elevator, and the American Society of Elevator Attendants was offended by the idea of everyone simply pushing buttons to operate elevators without the paid help of any attendant.
Mr. Petruzzi operates Elevator 120 in the 190th Street subway station in Manhattan.
My father's building had two lofts per floor and a manually operated elevator.
All the while the value of the property — 9,500 square feet including two below-ground floors, a manually operated elevator and a roof deck — kept rising.
KATE MCALEER Hell's Kitchen The sound of the gears in my manually operated elevator, responding to my finger pressing on the buzzer.
Fortunately for his youthful amour propre, his household was scarcely affected by the Depression: the family lived in a brownstone on East Ninety-first Street (where the externally operated elevator enabled Louis to keep trapped housemaids perpetually ascending and descending between floors), then moved to 1185 Park Avenue, before settling at 66 East Seventy-ninth Street.
