Tag: Elevators and Escalators

We Need Elevators, Not Soldiers, in New York Subways

A few months before Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered some 1,000 members of the state police and National Guard to patrol New York City’s subway system in response to a string of violent attacks, some of them deadly, I had an unsafe subway experience of my own. It didn’t involve crime — unless you’d call the […]

Read More

Bali Elevator Plunges Into Ravine, Killing 5

Five people died last week when a hillside elevator plunged into a ravine at a resort on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. The victims were not international tourists, but young men and women who cleaned the property’s Instagrammable, hundreds-of-dollars-a-night pool villas. As of Thursday, the Bali police were still investigating how the glass elevator’s […]

Read More