As with self-driving cars today, the public was initially afraid of automated elevators a century ago—until technology took over. As NPR pointed out in 2015, "every new automatic device that enters ...

Like doormen, elevator operators tend to know a lot of about a building—and its residents. Being an elevator operator might seem a simple matter of up and down, but consider, for a moment, the morning ...

The guys who run the elevators in the Century Building at Third & Wells are on a first-name basis with most of their riders. And they've got their fingers on the pulse of the building's happenings.

In an era of dishy, tell-all books about the habits and sanctuaries of New York society – think “The Nanny Diaries” and “The Devil Wears Prada” – a memoir or thinly veiled novel has yet to emerge from ...

Nine unexpected high-paying jobs, like HVAC techs and funeral managers, offer over $75K yearly, highlighting lesser-known lucrative career paths. Pexels Good news for job seekers: high-paying ...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority proposed cutting around-the-clock operator positions at five uptown subway stations. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS-INWOOD, NY — The Metropolitan Transit Authority has reversed ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - A nearly century-old building shuttered its manual elevators Tuesday with plans to replace them with automatic ones, marking the end of Sioux City’s era of elevator operators.

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It’s known as the place where conversations go to die. Not this one. This elevator is every bit the center of attention and starter of small, and not so small, talk. First-time visitors to the ...