Elevator Button Edition. By Mark Vanhoenacker. June 25, 2012 1:21 PM. Buttons in a New York City elevator. ... We pressed the “alarm” button, featuring a bell-shaped symbol.

Electronic records show that the elevator’s emergency alarm was pressed at 9:09 p.m. and 9:17 p.m. on July 6, the day after Komisarchik was last spotted, according to KUSA.

The Department of General Services is removing new elevator buttons with the word “RIOT” on them from a downtown office building after employees expressed alarm.

The alarm button in the elevator makes for a surprisingly wonderful auditory Morse code device. Play loud music to drown out your anxieties. When stuck in an elevator, you're bound to get anxious.

More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that were in place at the time existed as mechanical placebos. As of 2016 there are only 120 working signals, the city said.