Nearly every New Yorker has to push a button and often wait some time for their automated elevator to arrive. Tony Sciallia, meanwhile, spends his days in a crisp gray uniform, pulling shut an ...

One of Chicago's last manual elevator operators understands the novelty of his 'office' in the famous Fine Arts Building. "It has its ups and downs," Brian joked about the job. He said he wound up ...

An MTA plan to reassign 19 elevator operators at stations in Washington Heights poses a safety risk to riders with disabilities, a new lawsuit argued on Thursday. The elevator operator jobs at four ...

The Washington Heights elevator operators aren’t going anywhere but up and down. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Machelle Sweeting signed an order Friday keeping the MTA workers on the job inside ...

Betty Lou Oliver, who just turned 20, had no idea her final day of work would mark the day she earned a Guinness World Record for surviving the longest elevator free fall July 28 marks the 80th ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 36th president, briefly lived in San Bernardino. LBJ in SB? The mind reels. The Texan’s improbable sojourn in Southern California’s Gate City came to my attention by chance.