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The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept ...

490 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 40.721851-73.99974 at Broome St. See Map | ... the Haughwout is famed for being the first building to install a safe passenger elevator.

On the 23rd of March, 1857, the first successful passenger elevator carried customers up to the fifth floor of the Haughwout Building in New York City.

The Soho E. V. Haughwaut Building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1965. Staten Island’s own Haughwout building stands on a commercial strip amid the tumult of everyday Island life.

In 1857, still years before the Civil War, the world’s first commercial passenger elevator was installed in New York, in the Haughwout Building, then a five-story department store, at the corner ...

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept ...