I may have ranted the lack of character of a NYC lift multiple times throughout the entire blog, but, I, with evidence from other lift enthusiasts, do have a reason for the ranting.
Jersey City has nicer lifts. Is this true?
I know I haven't had real life experience on many lifts in Jersey City to verify that statement. In fact, I have ridden only ONE lift in the entire city. That one was a generized 1980s Dover hydraulic glass lift which had Monitor TR. Luckily I didn't get to film that! Anyway, the good part to that is, not even half of the known (known by the worldwide lift community) lifts in Jersey City have Monitor TR. This is a bloody relief for lift enthusiasts who have managed to cross the Holland tunnel & escape the boredom of NYC's high risers.
While Jersey City doesn't have necessarily epic modern lifts like Secaucus does, it's still a vast improvement to the sinful jokes NYC has all over there high rise buildings. If you pay attention closely to how they run, you will find that some of the lifts run very differently from each other, making them a lot of fun.
Statistical comparison to New York City
About 30 percent of New Jersey's lifts are crappy NYC-style generics with crap Monitor TR, while 70 percent are worth taking a look at, according to what I & other NJ lift enthusiasts have seen on YouTube so far.
I find it funny. If you could clearly see New York City from the STREET in Jersey City, how are the lifts so different?
There's no actual reason why the lifts are so much better in Jersey City, but the only real reason I could give is because Jersey City already has some nice looking buildings (like Secaucus), which have awesome lifts, along with the fact that building developers strive for modern character. Jersey City building developers actually care about bringing character to the building's general components, especially the lifts.
For example, one building could have a Series 1, while the building next door could have a lift completely different with different character, like a Schindler 400A MRL. This technically is the case for all of Secaucus, all of Charlotte & all of the other 8 best U.S. cities to film lifts. While Jersey City's hydraulic lifts are nice, there traction lifts especially near the Newport Centre Mall are extremely worth taking a look at to film.
What about New York City?
The ratio of buildings with boring modern traction generic lifts to buildings with nice modern traction lifts which resemble a real lift company is 20 to 1. This is a fact, as many lift enthusiasts including me have watched over 110 videos of different kinds of modern NYC lifts.
Statistical comparison to Jersey City
Out of the 19 buildings that have boring generic traction lifts, about 15 buildings will use Monitor TR, 1 building will use Monitor HPS 1300 & 2 buildings will use CRAPCO Super Sting Line. Now out of the 15 buildings with Monitor TR, 10 of the 15 will use the kind of Monitor TR without the halo (the kind which makes NYC the worst city of the entire Western Hemisphere to film lifts), 3 buildings will use the kind of Monitor TR with both the halo & the jewel (which is a bit better) & 2 buildings will use the kind of Monitor TR with only the halo (which is much better).The mathematical explanation behind why the lifts are so boring to ride
For the majority of NYC generic lifts, 90 to 120 meters per minute is the norm for a building under 10 floors. A vast majority of the lifts which travel at significantly higher speeds (over 350 meters per minute) will run exactly the same way as the standard 10 story traction lift that goes 120 meters per minute, only with a longer A/D time. It takes about 4.5 seconds for the average 10-story lift to travel from a speed of 0 meters per minute to 105 meters per minute. That's on average 23.3 meters per minute faster per second. This is no wonder why it takes a long time for a high speed lift to decelerate from a significantly higher speed to 0 the time it takes from the time the floor indicator has changed to the destination floor at full speed to the time the doors have opened.Formula
In New York City, because the majority of the generic traction lifts practically run the same way no matter how fast they go (which is the reason why they are so boring & uninteresting to film with zero character), it is therefore the easiest city to predict accurately enough how fast the lift is going.
To do this, once the lift starts accelerating, count in your head the number of seconds that went by & when the lift reaches full speed, stop counting & remember that number. Then, you will want to do this: divide the number of seconds you got by the quotient of 105 & 4.5. This will give you a good estimate of how fast the lift should go.
Conclusion
If you'd like to experience better lifts, go to JERSEY CITY. While the lifts are not epic nor have as much character as the lifts in Secaucus, Jersey City still has a wide variety of nice lifts worth filming & most of them are Otis.
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