Originally Posted by
pinniped
It seems like a *lot* of NYC hotels have the issue of too-few lifts for the number of floors/rooms in the building. I'm not sure why, but I wonder if it's because many of the buildings were originally apartments that didn't have quite the same traffic patterns as a hotel, or were less-dense in terms of total guests in the building.
I think both. When these were apartments, there might have been 2-4 on a floor, now they've got 12 (or more) hotel rooms squeezed into the same space. Also, the elevators get more use, so they break down more often. Nothing like an elevator out of service to clog things up.