Williamsburg, NY - Report Cites Problems in Elevator Where Neuman Boy Died Were Tied to Faulty Maintenance by the Building’s Landlord

Williamsburg, NY - The brown elevator door opened shortly before 9 a.m. and two boys on their way to school stepped inside. They were heading downstairs from their 11th-floor apartment when the elevator — a 21-year-old machine, dimly lighted with steel-paneled walls and a beige floor — stalled. The boys — Jacob Neuman, 5, and his brother, Israel, 8 — had not traveled far. They were...