The Metropolitan Transit Authority proposed cutting around-the-clock operator positions at five uptown subway stations. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS-INWOOD, NY — The Metropolitan Transit Authority has reversed ...

The guys who run the elevators in the Century Building at Third & Wells are on a first-name basis with most of their riders. And they've got their fingers on the pulse of the building's happenings.

Like doormen, elevator operators tend to know a lot of about a building—and its residents. Being an elevator operator might seem a simple matter of up and down, but consider, for a moment, the morning ...