In a letter sent out to residents, the management of the building where a man was killed in a freak elevator mishap said that the building will be getting new lift equipment. The group Manhattan ...

Jonathan Baron, an interior designer who has spent nearly 30 years sprucing up luxury buildings all over New York, knows the elevator usually comes last. Developers are always eager to talk about the ...

The race for ever-better amenities—from voice-controlled kitchen gadgets to in-home theaters and on-call concierge services -- has doubled down on a daily inconvenience for apartment dwellers: The ...

On Thursday, a 30-year-old man was killed when he was crushed by a malfunctioning elevator in his apartment building in Kips Bay. It has since come out that tenants around that building, the Manhattan ...

Elevators haven’t been updated much in 150 years but PLP Architecture wants to change that. PLP’s IUMO, formerly known as the SkyPod, is an elevator that runs outside of buildings instead of inside.

Stanley Lovelace, 62, sits inside the Alice Griffith Apartments lobby, avoiding the harsh winds outside on June 27, 2025. Photo by Marina Newman. On an especially breezy Thursday afternoon earlier ...

CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) -- Residents of an apartment building in Manhattan are sounding the alarm over an elevator repair project. Tenants are complaining that their six-story building on West 16th ...

Above: Left to right—Chicago Board of Trade (1930), Chrysler Building (1930), Woolworth Building (1913), Bacardi Building (1930) Jonathan Baron, an interior designer who has spent nearly 30 years ...