Queens elevator company pushes button on new zoning option in bid to keep manufacturing jobs in NYC
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Returning to New York after fighting in Vietnam, Carlos Escobar went to work for an elevator company and later founded the Titan Machine Corp. to produce elevator equipment in Long Island City.
He ripped the trunk lid off his car to make his early deliveries as his company started in 1973.