Elevator Historical Society

21-03 44th Avenue | also 43-39 21st Street | Long Island City | built 1929

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 2016

    Patrick Carrajat closes his one-room elevator museum and sends the collection to Boston

    Patrick Carrajat founded and alone curated the Elevator Historical Society, a one-room museum of elevator artifacts he had been gathering since age eleven. When the museum shut in 2016, the collection went to Local 4 of the International Union of Elevator Constructors in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Source: atlasobscura.com

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