How elevators transformed NYC's social landscape

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http://nypost.com/2014/02/08/how-elevators-transformed-nycs-social-landscape/


It put the “Upper” into the East Side. It prevented Fifth Avenue from becoming Wall Street. It made “penthouse” the most important word in real estate.

The elevator did more than make New York the city of skyscrapers, it changed the way we live, as German newspaper editor Andreas Bernard explains in “Lifted.”

“The elevator played a role in the profound reorganization of the building,” he writes. That means a shift from single-family houses and businesses to apartments and office buildings. “Suddenly . . . it was possible to encounter strangers almost anywhere.”

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1. Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.