EditorialA shaft that allows excess water to escape from an underground tunnel on the Tamega complex near Ribeira de Pena, Portugal, Aug. 2022. (Matilde Viegas/The New York Times)
EditorialA shaft that allows excess water to escape from an underground tunnel on the Tamega complex near Ribeira de Pena, Portugal, Aug. 2022. (Matilde Viegas/The New York Times)
EditorialMiners enter an elevator shaft at the start of a six-hour shift at a state-run coal mine near the town of Selidove, in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, June 8, 2022. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialInvestigators at the six-story building in the Bronx borough of New York where a 6-year-old boy climbed the stairs to the roof, opened an unlocked door to an elevator shaft and plunged down the shaft on Thursday, April 21, 2022. (David Dee Delgado/The New York Times)
EditorialA vintage double elevator shaft, with just one of the cars on the floor, in a downtown Cairo building, Aug. 28, 2021. (Sima Diab/The New York Times)