Nearly every New Yorker has to push a button and often wait some time for their automated elevator to arrive. Tony Sciallia, meanwhile, spends his days in a crisp gray uniform, pulling shut an ...

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For most of their half-day shifts, Bill Dreisbach and Bob Johnson sit in a hot, virtually empty office on the virtually empty third floor of downtown Allentown’s Farr Building, waiting for a buzzer to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If you walk inside the Loraine Building off Fulton Street in Grand Rapids and head for the lobby elevator, you’ll find someone waiting. Her name is Bernadette Meeuwenberg.

It’s known as the place where conversations go to die. Not this one. This elevator is every bit the center of attention and starter of small, and not so small, talk. First-time visitors to the ...

Gerry Counihan’s job as a Senate elevator operator is to help lawmakers get to where they’re going, but those same lawmakers have also helped him rise above some truly tough times. The longtime ...

Darlene Lewis wears white gloves to her job in the third elevator to the right in the Young-Quinlan Building in downtown Minneapolis. Lewis has a smile for every passenger, many of whom are corporate ...