ELEVATOR COMPLAINTS EXAMINED IN LIGHT OF DEATH

2019-09-06

Curbed New York recently reported on a list of buildings with the most elevator complaints in NYC. Compiled from the NYC Department of Buildings website (which gets its data from complaints at its 311 hotline), the list is topped by 1750 East 14th Street in Brooklyn with 92 complaints. The Manhattan Promenade, in which a 30-year-old man died in an elevator on August 22, also had long-running complaints about elevator issues, The New York Times reported. It had also been fined multiple times for unsafe elevator conditions. According to Gothamist, attorney Bruce Kaye, who has experience working on cases against privately owned and operated elevator systems, said, "A jury is always asked to look at whether the elevator maintenance company negligently performed its duty of maintenance, or whether the owner or management company failed in some way to bring these problems to the attention of the elevator company. Prior complaints by tenants to the owner or management company have to be passed on to the elevator maintenance company.”

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