Elderly Artist’s SoHo Loft Nightmare: 6 Years, 4 Flights and 1 Dormant Elevator
Elderly artists living in a SoHo loft building have been unable to use the building's only elevator since 2019. The landlord banned them from using it, causing significant physical and emotional distress for the residents.
For the elderly artists who’ve lived for decades on the upper floors of a 19th century cast-iron SoHo loft building on Mercer Street, the last six years have been a physical and emotional nightmare with a singular cause: their landlord banned them from the building’s sole elevator in 2019. But getting the city to do […]
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