A man moving into an apartment in the Bronx fell into an empty elevator shaft and died. WABC 7 reports that Joseph Ryan and his wife were carrying a mattress to the elevator: "Eyewitness News is told the elevator doors opened, but the elevator was not there. Ryan, unaware of this, backed into the elevator without looking and he fell." He was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital around 1 a.m.; police are investigating.