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A horrific accident in a building in New York killed a 30-year-old renter, and other residents say it's the result of ignored requests to repair the elevators of the site. Officials told NBC New York that Samuel Waisbren was trying to get out of an elevator located in the lobby of the Manhattan Promenade in Kips Bay on Thursday when the elevator suddenly dropped, resulting in Waisbren with him and crushing him between the elevator and the wall of the well. . Waisbren was declared dead on the scene. The other people who had taken the elevator, including the man who had gone out before Waisbren tried to do so, escaped unhurt. The macabre scene was captured on a very graphic surveillance sequence obtained by the New York Post.
Although Waisbren's death was shocking, the residents of the 23-story building, where the To post said a unit of a room goes $ 3,695 a month – are not surprised. Quotes about the elevators had already been issued on the boardwalk, by the city's buildings department, and the other lift of the site was actually closed and hooked up Wednesday after a resident was stuck there . New York Times. "It's like this Halloween night trick when you're in this scary elevator going up and down," said a resident at the To post. "It's really bad." Waisbren's father tells Time his son had recorded several complaints about the elevators. In a statement, the DOB calls lifts "the safest form of travel in New York" and says it will do it "[investigate] this incident aggressively. "(Read more about abnormal crashes.)
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