New York City should focus on elevator shafts to improve the energy efficiency standards of its high-rise residences, according to a new report from the Urban Green Council. A typical New York ...

A woman in her 70s opened the door to the elevator in her New Jersey apartment building and stepped inside -- only to plunge down the shaft because it wasn't there. The victim fell from the first ...

Devils Lake elevator will be rebuilt; fire likely caused by spontaneous combustion Spontaneous combustion is the likely cause of a fire earlier this week that destroyed a Dakota Dry Bean elevator in ...

After another elevator shutdown Wednesday morning, Residential Maintenance officials think they may have found the source of the recurring failures in the newly renovated High Rise South elevators.

A woman is in critical condition after her arm was caught in the freight elevator inside a Northwest DC apartment building.

The individual was stuck above the 7th floor with no means of accessing it from one of the landing doors. With the elevator's ...