"He's pretty sure the people waiting for elevators on either side of him not make it".
For years, the building's malfunctioning elevators have ruled the daily lives of residents, forcing elderly men and women to cancel doctor's appointments, push their strength to the limit by taking the stairs and spend hours stuck inside their apartments or outside on the benches waiting for elevator mechanics to arrive.
This forces ElevatorController to wait on each elevator's lock, which is only released when an elevator sleeps.
Over the years, elevators haven't changed dramatically, which means we're basically all still waiting on the same, cable-dependent elevators from long ago.
In addition, there are definitely people waiting on other floors for the elevator.
Forget you've heard it "in an elevator or while waiting on the phone", he urged in a programme note.
By the time Deloris Gillespie saw him, waiting on the other side of an elevator door, it was too late to escape.
So it was disconcerting to meet him one recent afternoon in the hallway outside his Greenwich Village apartment, where he was waiting on the other side of the elevator door; he smiled, stuck out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Carl Andre," pronouncing his last name with a flat "a," in contrast to the broad "a" ("bahthtub," "auhnt") he carries conspicuously from his youth in Quincy, Mass.
Gurley, described by Bratton as "a complete innocent," and a female companion were entering the stairwell at the same time because they had gotten impatient waiting on the seventh floor for an elevator.
(This was no time to wait for elevators).
