(DNAinfo/Mary Johnson) 
 
 By Adam Nichols, Ben Fractenberg, Mary Johnson, Murray Weiss, Jon Schuppe, Sonja Sharp and Jill Colvin 
 
 DNAinfo Staff 
 
 MIDTOWN EAST — An executive at a prominent Madison Avenue ad firm was crushed to death in a horrific accident Wednesday morning when the elevator she stepped into suddenly lurched upwards, trapping her between floors, authorities said. It seems like her body is what stops the elevator’s movement.” 
 
 The official said that it took about an hour just to remove the two other passengers, who were not hurt but were taken to New York University Langone Medical Center. (Facebook/Suzanne Hart) 
 
 "She was a beautiful person and I don’t have words for this," said her boyfriend, Chris Dicksen, outside Hart's Brooklyn home. “I loved her.” 
 
 Ms. Hart’s father, Alex Hart, who lives in Florida, was beside himself with grief. “They weren’t the kind of elevators that you stuck your hand in to catch the doors,” he said, “Because they wouldn’t stop.” 
 
 A spokesman for the Department of Buildings, Tony Sclafani, said that the elevator that killed Ms. Hart was last inspected in June and that “no safety issues were found at that time and no conditions were found that would be related to this accident.” There have been many violations issued against the building’s 13 elevators in recent years, but all were for administrative or non-hazardous conditions, Mr. Sclafani said. Y&R recently announced that the firm and its sister agencies were planning to move from the Madison Avenue building to a more modern building at Columbus Circle. "The focus at this moment is the well being of our employee’s family and our larger Y&R family. "We are deeply deeply saddened to confirm that one of our employees has died," said the company's CEO Peter Stringham. Yesterday, I sat at lunch with her and I know this news will be shocking to all of you, as it is to me.” 
 
 At 285 Madison Avenue Wednesday afternoon, the mood was one of shock. A worker at the Pret a Manger cafe near the building said many huddled inside his store and were too upset to leave. “She was always trying to lose ten pounds like me, and when she did, she was so excited,” Ms. Meyer said.
– The woman killed today in a horrific elevator accident in midtown Manhattan has been identified as a 41-year-old advertising executive with Young & Rubicam, reports DNA Info. After Suzanne Hart stepped into the elevator in her Madison Avenue building, the doors somehow shut on her foot or leg. (Her foot may have been caught in the gap between the elevator and lobby floor.) The elevator started going up with Hart trapped, and she was killed instantly as it got stuck between floors. Two others on the elevator could only watch. “She’s a beautiful person and I don’t have words for this,” her boyfriend tells the New York Times. “I loved her.” Click for more.