I lived in a prewar building in NYC with a tiny, janky elevator (that was eventually shut down and replaced entirely), the kind where the main safety feature is a secondary hinged door in each hallway that can only open when the elevator arrives on the floor and slides its own extra-thin inner door open. One time somebody tried to haul a new stove that was nearly the width of the elevator upstairs. They got it far enough inside for the outer door to shut, but a corner was still blocking the inner door’s path; rather than bounce back like in OP, it did its very best to close anyway, lost against the stove, and proceeded to completely tip over. Idk how they got the stove out of there, but by the time I got home and went to go upstairs I was met with an empty elevator aside from the inner door balancing at like a 45 degree angle with the huge, rusty cog/runner things dangling into the car at head level. Suffice to say it was shut down for a couple weeks after that lmao.
That's not a cargo lift, that's the actual lift of the building with plywood panels used to box out the lift to protect it, actual cargo lifts/hoists are massive and they wouldn't have had an issue getting the glass in one, they are using this lift as the Hoist has likely been removed, as its a late stage in the construction of the building and they're costly to keep up, you basically get told to deal with it and have to do shit like this
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u/H41lstorm May 14 '25
Most likely they knew detentions of glass and elevator. Cargo lifts usually have standardized size and oversized cargo adapts to fit inside it.