All TTC elevators are now fully operational after being down Monday morning, but passengers will have to seek out a staff member to use them, as elevator assistance intercoms remain out of service.
The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten's life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: "Elevators!" The article that followed, in April, 2008, is titled "Up and Then Down." It is the story of a man named Nicholas White-who was trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building, in midtown Manhattan, for forty-one hours-and also a study of "elevatoring," a delicious word for the discipline of designing vertical transportation.
"The new MTA is all about completing projects faster, better, and cheaper - which is how we've opened 37 accessible stations in the past five years," MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said. "And thanks to our fully funded Capital Plan, we will continue using every available tool to make the subway system accessible to all New Yorkers."