Artist’s rendering of a space elevator. (By Kenn Man, via Museum of Flight.) Space elevators may not be a reality — yet — but if you want to revel in talks about these awesome lifts to the sky and ...

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 ...

A retired "elevator executive" is opening the city's first Elevator Museum in Long Island City, which he calls "the nexus of the elevator world." What can you expect? Creator Patrick Carrajat has ...

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 ...

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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