Word: frenkel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back-seat Psychiatry. New Yorkers, however, are born survivors. The immediate challenge was to operate the elevators-if possible. Steve Frenkel, a 19-year-old Hunter College engineering student living in a West Side building, pried open a stricken lift with a bent coat hanger, taught himself how to operate the machine, then enlisted other tenants on a rotation watch schedule. In many another highrise, kids gleefully took over the elevator controls. One East Side boy, pressed into service to spare his parents' dinner guests the rigors of the stairway, demanded-and got - $1 for his stint behind...