@MrGrimm888 No! Orthodox Jews leave their relatives in the hospital the whole weekend if they don’t get discharged early enough on Friday to get home. Doctors go along with it. Over the weekend the family doesn’t visit if they didn’t stay over night in the hospital, because they won’t ride in cars or on the subway to get to the hospital.
It’s only one elevator that is stopping at every floor, the other floors are functioning normally. It’s not all hospitals, but definitely the Jewish ones, and some of the others.
My sister’s apartment is in China Town, lol, but a lot of Jews live in it, so it has the elevator. Each tower has two elevators, one that stops at every floor on Shabbas and one that is normal.
NYC is 12% Jewish I think. It’s a lot of people. I don’t know what percentage of those people are observant. Probably not very high.
It is crazy the extremes they go to, but in NYC it is catered to.