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Just found out how many elevators are in New York City
I was reading an old trade magazine at the shop and saw a line about elevator counts. It said there are over 80,000 elevators in NYC. That number blew my mind, I had no idea it was that high. Can you imagine the service calls? Anyone work in a city with a crazy amount of units like that?
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wren_thomas165mo ago
Yeah you gotta set up regular maintenance schedules and have a few reliable companies on speed dial, trust me it makes a world of difference when something inevitably breaks down at 3am.
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kelly.keith6mo ago
That 80,000 number is actually on the low side. The city's own buildings department puts the count closer to 100,000 passenger elevators and escalators. It makes sense when you add up all the public housing towers and pre war buildings with six units per floor. The maintenance logistics for that many are just wild to think about.
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henderson.mason6mo ago
Remember reading about the old Woolworth Building. Had like 26 elevators back in 1913. Wild to think about the scale now like @kelly.keith said. Just miles of elevator shaft.
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