NEW YORK (PIX11) – The safety of the hundreds of thousands of New York City public housing residents and guests when they ride elevators in public housing complexes is front and center in a new court case against the New York City Housing Authority.
A whistleblower contends that most of the housing system’s 3,000 elevators aren’t being properly monitored to ensure that they’re working properly, and he warns that it’s a tragedy waiting to happen. But NYCHA says that its elevators are safe and that they exceed federal safety and operational requirements.
The allegations come from Henrick Beausoleil, who formerly worked as a subject matter expert on elevators for a company hired by the federal monitor of NYCHA. The housing authority has been monitored by a federally selected third party since 2018.
Beausoleil, 52, was called the elevator pillar lead. In that capacity, he and a maintenance and inspection team that he oversaw were tasked with making sure that many of the elevators in public housing operate safely.
However, Beausoleil said that about two years ago, over the course of doing his job, he discovered what he deemed to be a major problem with NYCHA’s elevator maintenance.
“A lot of things that the department was not doing properly,” he said in an interview with PIX11 News.
One of those things that he said was not being done properly involves what’s called REMS, which stands for Remote Elevator Monitoring System.
“It monitors the safety components of that elevator to...
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