Spurred by the death of an elderly tenant, the city investigated the New York City Housing Authority’s elevators and found systemic problems.
On Christmas Eve, octogenarian Olegario Pabon, died in a faulty elevator at NYCHA’s Boston Road Plaza in the Bronx. The city’s Department of Investigation looked into the incident and a report found that a brake monitor, a fail-safe device, had been disabled on the elevator, the New York Daily News reported.