State registry
How many elevators are in New York?
69,732 elevators and conveyances are on record in New York, 69,732 of them active in the device registry.
This covers New York City, which publishes the country's most complete public device registry. New York State outside the five boroughs is pulled separately.
69,732
active devices
0
25+ years old
0
40+ years old
Where the elevators are
By countyActive registered devices by county. Schoharie County leads with 0.
By device type
65,867 elevators (94%)
2,085 lifts (3%)
917 escalators (1%)
482 others (1%)
381 dumbwaiters (1%)
Top manufacturers on record
| GAL | 30,395 devices |
| G.A.L. | 4,491 devices |
| gal | 4,074 devices |
| existing | 2,266 devices |
| OTIS | 2,203 devices |
| Otis | 2,152 devices |
| HOUSING AUTHORITY | 1,226 devices |
| Wittur | 1,205 devices |
Permit activity in New York
The markets we track in New York, with contractor leaderboards: New York City (61,517).
Get New York in the weekly dispatch: new counts, oldest finds, and modernization movers.
Device data from public state and city registries; see methodology. Permit activity (who is doing the work) lives on the market pages; the running national total is on The Count.