On her way to her job at Young & Rubicam, Suzanne Hart marched across the tiled lobby of the landmark 285 Madison Ave. building and stepped into an elevator around 10 a.m., joining a man and a woman inside.
She was barely inside the compartment — the doors hadn’t even closed — when it suddenly shot up 20 feet or so to just below the second floor.
In an instant, Hart, 41, who still had one foot out, was pulled up the shaft where she became wedged between the elevator and the wall — and had the life crushed out of her.
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