White glove upgrade for Park Avenue coop.A Park Avenue co-op apartment building has received a white glove glove, hand covering with a separate sheath for each finger. The earliest gloves, relics of the cave dwellers, closely resembled bags. Reaching to the elbow, they were most probably worn solely for protection and warmth. upgrade of its intercom system. Nortronics Corp., a New York-area security integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. , installed state-of-the-art telephone access to 27 co-op units at 1001 Park Avenue, and near East 84th Street. The system replaces separate intercom units and unwieldy dialing procedures within the 16-story building. Instead With the new system, residents simply dial *7 on their home phone to call down and talk directly to their doorman. "Systems like these up until now, required residents had to call an 800 number, use special dialers or pay a toll to call down and talk to their doorman," says Maria Gonzalez Gonzalez may refer to: People
1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have finally possible." The system also includes a "Do-Not-Disturb" and call-forwarding feature that allows residents to forward calls from the doorman to their cell phone when they are not home, for example. Nortronics had been servicing the uilding's 1001 Park Avenue's 15-year-old, hard-wired 1. (electronics) hard-wired - An aspect of an electronic circuit which is determined by the wiring of the hardware, as opposed to being programmable in software or controlled by a switch. 2. intercom system for years. The building's 49-year-old original wireswires were so problematichad deteriorated so much, in fact, that they would have had to be replaced for the old-fashioned intercom system to continue working. That would have if Nortronics had to install a new hard-wired system it would have required meant opening up the walls in almost every common corridor and every apartment and to instalinstall new wiresling the new system from scratch. "This was the better choice for the building," says Gonzalez. "We didn't want to tear into the walls and rewire re·wire v. re·wired, re·wir·ing, re·wires v.tr. To provide with new wiring: rewired the old house. v.intr. To install new wiring. , i. It would have been a messy mess·y adj. mess·i·er, mess·i·est 1. Disorderly and dirty: a messy bedroom. 2. Exhibiting or demonstrating carelessness: messy reasoning. prospect for the residents, and an expensive one." "We had originally asked for a less sophisticated standard telephone access system, without the call-down function," says Ira Meister, Matthew Adams Properties President. "But when we learned about the advantages of the new system, we chose to go slightly over budget for the better fit." |
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