Touro College is seeking to overturn a decision by the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal denying its application to install a Shabbat elevator, which would stop on every floor during the Jewish sabbath, in an Upper West Side apartment building it owns, alleging that the DHCR caved to pressure from "intolerant" tenants.
Touro, which was founded in 1970 with the educational mission to "support and strengthen the Jewish community," bought a six-story building at 10 W. 65th St. in 2008, in order to house students from its women's college.
