Queens high-rise residents say frequent elevator outages are dangerous

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Published 2024-08-08
Tenants in a Queens high-rise say faulty elevators have been an inconvenience for years, and now they say it has become dangerous. CBS New York's Elle McLogan reports from Long Island City.

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  • @nychacker
    Developers put different appliances for affordable units also they don't put washer and dryer while same floorplan have the washer and dryer. There are all kind of loop hole discrimination that developers use.
  • @jujubees711
    I thought it was my building in Queens! We have frequent elevator outages in our building too. 10-15 mins is nothing. We have 4 hours to overnight outages. My mom is 90 years old. I have to take her shopping or out for coffee until the elevator is fixed. When it broke overnight, she had to climb up 6 flights of stairs! There is a way where she could go up the elevator in the middle section of the building and walk across the roof, but building management says that may be a liability. So is if she falls down a flight of stairs. I'm glad we don't live on the 25th floor.
  • @J_larubia1992
    Wow this is so messed up! A nice building like that with elevator issues. I hope no one gets hurt in an elevator.
  • @JohnAranita
    I chose to live where I live because I can just walk to my apartment.
  • Obviously, they need a new elevator, but how do you do that without stopping the elevators?
  • @sibhuskyguy
    expediting getting parts doesn't do one thing if the elevators are old enough parts are simply not available... place i used to live had problems with the elevators, installed in 1955, because parts were no longer available or manufactured for them.. was a problem for over 10 years, with some elevators in the apartment complex being unsteady and untrustworthy to even try to use them... they ended up gutting everything but the cables, counter weights, and winches and remodeling the elevator cars interiors (they re used the old metal frames). the landlord should be planning ahead upon seeing supply problems with elevator maintenance.
  • @bsgvlog5640
    You know whats a low class place when they let tenants have Pitulls as pets.
  • @straightup7up
    Elevators go up, they go down, but mostly they go up so we don't take stairs, YES STAIRS STILL EXISTS!
  • @Ggnmgjhg
    Related! Stephen Ross CEO, what do you expect?😂