For six days Richard Dever sat in his tiny fifth-floor apartment on skid row, desperate for some fresh air. But the elevator at the Madison Hotel was broken again, and Dever, 82, could not make it ...

A home elevator may seem like a big-ticket splurge, but it can make a huge difference in the accessibility of your home and allow greater freedom for those with mobility limitations. This is ...

These days, the idea of a driverless car makes a lot of people nervous. Our Planet Money team goes back in time when automatic elevators made people just as worried. Now, as Google and other companies ...

You walk to the elevator, you hit the Up button, and you wait. And you wait. And...you wait. There really is a good reason the lift keeps rising away from you. And it’s not karmic payback for never ...

Since the dawn of the space era more than six decades ago, there’s been just one way to get to the moon and back: rockets. But a pair of graduate students say we should now be able to ferry humans and ...

Zach Hughes, a resident of the Prospect Street building in Montpelier whose elevator has been broken for two months, said the malfunction has caused major problems for residents on upper floors with ...

The many codes and guidelines that regulate the electrical design of an elevator can seem overwhelming, and dealing with the electrical inspector, elevator inspector, and Fire Marshal can be even more ...

The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a ...

All manner of sudden fatality are horrendous no matter where or when or how they occur, but we seem to assign decapitations to a special category populated by modes of death we find particularly ...

The elevator scene in The Silence of the Lambs is a standout moment of true horror and suspense, unnerving audiences like never before. Director Jonathan Demme's crafty camera work and exceptional ...

One of every New Yorker’s worst nightmares played out Thursday morning when a Kips Bay man was crushed to death by an elevator in his luxury high-rise as his horrified neighbors looked on, authorities ...