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the story this morning about the touro elevator gave me pause.
I first read it on a different site, which quoted the NY Daily News.
via NYDN:
An upper West Side apartment building, where more than half of the apartments are occupied by Jewish students attending Touro College, rejected an idea for a ‘Shabbat’ elevator that would stop on every floor from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday.
What started as a dispute over an elevator has evolved into a civil rights battle between students and tenants.
then I saw it on TYW, as an AP story, coming from the NY Post.
The only-in-New-York tale pits elderly residents of a West 65th Street building against their Orthodox Jewish neighbors, who want to operate one of two elevators in a special, slower mode on Friday nights and Saturdays to help them comply with Sabbath rules.
The state authority that regulates rents sided with the old-timers and refused to approve the special elevator service in an April administrative decision.
A spokeswoman from DHCR declined to comment. via nypost
the difference?
NYDN “forgot” to mention that Touro OWNS the building!!!! (it mentions it VERY passingly) Have to look VERY closely to find it.)
For shame
This is a private matter concerning 1 building in Manhattan, which has Tens of Thousands of buildings.
This matter should remain private for the residents of this building, and possibly its attorney, and does not belong on a forum of worldwide news.
Not going into the Halachik ramifications of Shabbos elevators (which makes me want to side with the DHCR if the students are truly all healthy and young) I believe many Shabbos elevators in high rise buildings only stop at every second floor. That would presumably cut the extra wait time in half and should be a fair compromise. If there are disabled shomer Shabbos residents, modifications can be made. But I don’t think this is the real issue here. The old-timers apparently don’t want young students and are trying to make them “uncomfortable”, using the all too common tactic of “legal” discrimination.
I think they should have one elevator for women and one for men. Forget about the Shabbat elevator. 😉
Agree with 147.
Thank you Torah613Torah.
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