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Studies suggest elevators aren't the most dangerous place in a crowded building. As offices start to reopen and people across the world return to working in busy office buildings, an important ...

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 ...

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When it comes to primal fear, an elevator plunging into free fall is right up there with snakes, quicksand, and great white sharks. In fact, 4% of the worldwide population has an elevator phobia that ...

Chanie Kirschner is a writer, advice columnist, and educator who has covered topics ranging from parenting to fashion to sustainability. When the elevator you’re in first lurches to a stop between ...

Today is National Talk in an Elevator Day. To celebrate Roll Call presents photos from our archives of members of Congress talking in elevators. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Lindsey Graham, R ...

No one was hurt Wednesday, July 16, after four people were rescued from an elevator shaft in Yonkers. The address of the incident is a construction site for a planned 27-story residential tower.

Four people were rescued from an elevator shaft at a Yonkers construction site on Wednesday, July 16. The elevator at 44 Hudson St. in Yonkers, last inspected on May 30, was authorized for ...