CORONAVIRUS EXACERBATES NYCHA ELEVATOR PROBLEMS

For some residents and maintenance workers of the NYC Housing Authority's (NYCHA) high-rise residential buildings, coping with the coronavirus is more difficult because of spotty elevator service, The City reports. During a recent four-day period, elevators went out at 99 buildings, and, in some cases, the outages lasted more than 24 hr. Prior to the pandemic, NYCHA had planned, in response to a judge's order, to start upgrading its unreliable elevators, but that work has now been put on hold. Instead, the authority's 428-person elevator unit has been working to keep the 3,244 elevators operational.