Up To 49! Famous Schindler Port Traction Elevators @ The New York Marriott Marquis in New York, NY

(8/7/2022)

**DISCLAIMER**: Please do NOT use the fire cabinet like I did in this video. You could very easily be caught if you are playing/tampering with the fire cabinet in ANY elevator, and it could end in a very bad situation. For the record, I did NOT use elevator keys. These cabinets were already open, and I didn't even bring elevator keys to NYC. I will NOT be held responsible for your actions.

I don't even think I need to say the significance of these elevators, but I'm going to anyway. The Marriott Marquis Hotel located at the heart of Times Square in New York City is very significant to us elevator enthusiasts. This building houses the first ever destination dispatch installation in the world: Schindler Miconic 10 elevators! That's right, Schindler invented destination dispatch with the Miconic 10 system, and their first install was here. These elevators used to be Westinghouse, and they needed this system BADLY. The wait times without the Miconic were stupidly long, and the hotel received nothing but complaints. The Miconic was a huge success since it helped boost the capacity of the whole system, but it also showed the potentials of what destination dispatch has to offer! Destination dispatch has now been used by countless elevator companies, and it is helping to improve the efficiency of elevators everyday!

As many of you have probably heard, the hotel decided. to have Schindler upgrade the entire system to PORT in 2019. While this was a shame, the system definitely needed it. This system had many glitches and weird problems. For example, when you would put a call in on handicapped mode for a high rise car, it would always call cars A or B, regardless if another car was close to the floor. With the PORT, the system now calls any of the high rise cars. Furthermore, with the Miconic 10, if you put a call in without handicapped mode, it would call a random car. However, if you then put a call in for that same floor with handicapped mode, it would call a different car!! The PORT fixed this as well as many other issues, and these are running better than they ever did before.

I rode these when they were Miconic 10, and I must say, they truly aren't the same anymore. While they are still very fun to ride, there is nothing like the classic "Michronic 10" system, especially the first one ever! Another downside to the PORT modernization is that the hotel decided to keycard the elevators above 8! This meant that if you wanted to ride these above 8, you couldn't unless you were staying here! (Well, you can ride to the view on 48, but that's during limited hours, and it's constantly busy). I didn't realize until after that you can keep riding without a card if you stay above 8, but then you don't get the full ride. My original plan was to ride along with other people and then ride back down, but then a thought popped into my head. I saw other videos of these elevators where people had noticed the fire cabinet was open. Inside of said fire cabinet were floor buttons for each floor that each car served. It wasn't that I got onto car D that I noticed it was open just enough for me to stick my hand in and hit the floor button! Before you ask, NO I did NOT use keys. The cabinets were already open, plus I didn't bring any keys to NYC. I was riding when I noticed afterward that the cabinet on car G was open as well! This allowed me to get a rare trip up to the secret 49th floor, which is extremely hard nowadays with the PORT! I don't think there has been a video of anyone up there for years, so that was awesome to see!

So to sum it up, these are some awesome elevators. The views, speed, and the overall efficiency these have is just stunning. I am glad to see these are still holding up well. It's just a shame they're so hard to ride now! RIP Miconic 10!

Brand: Schindler
Type: Traction
Capacity: 3,500 LBS
Floors Served: 1-9, 28-45 (High Rise: Cars A-F, and Cars M-N), 1-27 (Low Rise: Cars G-L, and Cars O-P) - Cars F and G serve floors 46, 48, 49 and floors 47,48, 49 respectively. Furthermore, the internal cars (M,N,O,P) serve level -1 as well.
Landings Served: Same as above
Door Type: Center Opening/Two-Speed Sliding
Sets Of Doors: 1
Indicator: Segmented
Number Of Cars In Bank: 16
Fixture Type: Schindler PORT/EPCO SSL-H
Phone: Pushbutton (EPCO)
Camera Used: iPhone 12 Pro



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