Inasmuch as the bulk of the story takes place in 1939, the hotel technology must be questioned. Nearly every elevator in the United States prior to 1950 had to have an operator. While it's true that automatic elevators existed in the 1930s, they proliferated slowly, due to objections from organized labor, in the form of strikes by the elevator operators' unions. Thus, fully automatic elevator cars would have been a rarity, even in New York City.
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