Jerusalem’s Tower of David was never built to be accessible. The ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City dates back to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, with earlier towers ...
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A long-awaited project to make the subway station at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens accessible has finished, the MTA announced. Transit officials and ...
GIFs could become the new elevator music, thanks to an experimental installation at the Museum of the Moving Image. The GIF Elevator offers six top-tier animators and media artists the chance to ...
A series of metal plates covers one of the four interior walls of the Elevator Historical Society’s newly opened museum in Long Island City. Placed in the center of the leftmost panel is founder and ...
Elevators play a powerful role in our lives. Actually, we could say uplifting, right? Think about it. If you have a doctor’s appointment, chances are it’s in a multistory building — and you’re ...
We talked to Patrick Carrajat, founder and curator of the Elevator Historical Society in Queens, New York, about the ups and downs of his industry. 1. I’ve been in the elevator business since I was 11 ...
Pressing his digital camera against a chain-link fence, Patrick Carrajat snapped photos of two rusty hunks of steel resting on weeds and dirty concrete. It’s hard to distinguish them today, but these ...
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