NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Dozens of cars are stuck in an upper Manhattan parking lot because a crucial part on the freight elevator snapped. Mike Distasio of Morningside Heights does more walking ...

Stuck in an elevator? New York City brass say sit tight. Five people died and 51 were injured in 56 elevator accidents across the city last year, and the most gruesome deaths and dismemberments wer… ...

Authorities say an elevator accident in a New York city high-rise has killed a man who was apparently pinned between the elevator car and the shaft.

Peter Milatz, a 67-year-old mechanic from Orange County, New York, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide after a freefalling elevator crushed apprentice Joseph Rosa.

In most states, training and licensing for elevator mechanics is required by law, but no such rule exists in New York, which has more elevators than Chicago and Los Angeles combined.

The safety of the hundreds of thousands of New York City public housing residents and guests when they ride elevators in ...

In New York, a convergence of factors — new policies, public health standards and the march of time — has accelerated the need for elevator modernization and replacement.

Elevators in New York City Housing Authority buildings frequently malfunction, stranding residents and sometimes trapping them inside. In extreme cases, passengers have been killed.

New York City firefighters successfully rescued two people that fell down an elevator shaft in the Bronx on Thursday.

NEW YORK — An elevator mechanic has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with a man’s death in New York City two years ago. Peter Milatz, 67, was charged after his apprentice ...