Jerusalem’s Tower of David was never built to be accessible. The ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City dates back to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, with earlier towers ...
Pressing his digital camera against a chain-link fence, Patrick Carrajat snapped photos of two rusty hunks of steel resting on weeds and dirty concrete. It’s hard to distinguish them today, but these ...
Artist’s rendering of a space elevator. (By Kenn Man, via Museum of Flight.) Space elevators may not be a reality — yet — but if you want to revel in talks about these awesome lifts to the sky and ...
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A long-awaited project to make the subway station at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens accessible has finished, the MTA announced. Transit officials and ...
A Long Island City man hopes to lift Queens tourism with the nation’s first elevator museum. Retired elevator executive Patrick Carrajat, 67, has packed 4,000 artifacts he salvaged and bought online ...
Elevators play a powerful role in our lives. Actually, we could say uplifting, right? Think about it. If you have a doctor’s appointment, chances are it’s in a multistory building — and you’re ...
Preserving prairie history takes constant attention, and the Manitoba Agricultural Museum in Austin continues that work with ...
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A retired "elevator executive" is opening the city's first Elevator Museum in Long Island City, which he calls "the nexus of the elevator world." What can you expect? Creator Patrick Carrajat has ...