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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contractors this week kicked off a two-year-plus project to install elevators and make other handicap-accessible improvements to Prospect Heights’s Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum subway station.

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 ...

SEATTLE — Sure, it's a stretch. Envision a thin, vertical tether extending from the Earth's surface to a mass far out in space. Scooting up the tether are electric vehicles, climbers that are ...

It seemed like an accident--nearly a disastrous one--when the Geological Museum's elevator crashed into the basement, almost killing the two undergraduate riders. But it wasn't. At the time it ...

Few inventions have changed the design of the modern city like the elevator. The ability to shuttle groups of people rapidly hundreds of feet into the air has transformed the way we live, work, and ...

NEW YORK — This is a three-dimensional city — and one that constantly reminds us of that fact. From my mid-rise apartment, in a neighborhood well into the Brooklyn sticks known as Ditmas Park, I have ...