NEW YORK, NY : Man pinned, killed in NYC elevator accident on Thursday, 22nd August 2019

Authorities say an elevator accident in a New York city high-rise has killed a man who was apparently pinned between the elevator car and the shaft.
It happened around 8:30 a.m. Thursday in a high-end rental building on Third Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan.
Police and building inspectors are investigating. Police say it appears 30-year-old Samuel Charles Waisbren was trying to get out of the elevator when it continued downward and trapped him.
Waisbren died at the scene. A message has been left for the company that owns the building.

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