Man crushed to death by falling elevator in NYC

A 25-year-old man has been crushed to death on New Year’s Eve by a falling elevator in New York City.

Cops said Stephen Hewett-Brown, of the Bronx, was in an elevator at 131 Broome Street with two other people when the elevator got stuck near the third floor at around midnight. He was trying to escape when the elevator began moving, reported the NY Daily News.

“Basically there was a woman in the elevator and her son”.

Witness Manuel Coronado told the Daily News that the man “said “Happy New Year” and pushed her out”.

He was rushed to New York Hospital in “traumatic arrest” at about 11:54 p.m, an FDNY spokesman said.

The building, a subsidized, below-market-rate rental complex, has four open Buildings Department violations and its owner Grand St. Guild East HDFC, owes $700 in fines for elevator maintenance lapses. The victim’s name was not immediately released. No one was available to comment.