Much of the world was appalled when a graphic video leaked Monday showing former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching and knocking out his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in a elevator. But the ...

“Ladies’ lingerie.” It was a lame, outmoded joke — the sort of thing you say in a crowded elevator to alleviate the discomfort of being jammed among strangers, an artifact of the days of fancy ...

A male professor who made a joke in a crowded elevator at an academic conference is now facing disciplinary charges after a female professor who was there filed a formal complaint. Richard Ned Lebow, ...

Jokes, gags, and pranks involving elevators are myriad. Some are in good taste, others not so much. (Please don’t push all the buttons, it’s very obnoxious.) One of the relatively benign and older ...

Last month, Richard Ned Lebow, a professor of political theory at King's College, found himself in a crowded elevator with Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at Merrimack College, during an ...

For generations, broken elevators have been the bane of New York City public-housing residents’ existence. NYCHA, the city housing authority, owns more than 3,300 elevators citywide — but can’t manage ...

He says he was joking when he asked to be let off an elevator at the ladies’ lingerie department. A female scholar who was attending the same annual meeting of the International Studies Association ...

I can”t help it. When I get into an elevator, I get a bit nervous, my blood pressure rises and my anxiety level skyrockets. I don”t know why I feel this way since, for the most part, the elevators I ...