Fireman v. Newcraft Associates, Inc.

Plaintiff tenants in a representative action seek to enjoin defendant landlord from converting a manually operated elevator to an automatic elevator without operators in *896continuous attendance and to compel the restoration of other services claimed to have been reduced or eliminated since March 1, 1943.

The premises are a fourteen-story penthouse structure of seventy-six apartments utilizing two service and two passenger elevators. Over the years in question the building operations have been maintained by fourteen to nineteen employees. It is located at West End Avenue and 77th Street in…