so you get buzzed in. takes a code for the elevator. resident finds it easier to give code than to come down.
security process keeps honest and marginal people honest. Pretty easy to find a work around.
People who pay the kind of money it takes to live in an upscale building in NYC are not ok with “workarounds.” They expect to live with the least possibility of criminal activity. Management normally makes every effort to keep the tenants/owners happy. If they didn’t, it wouldn’t be an upscale building for long.
We shouldn’t have to come up with our own theories of how the criminals got access. Regardless, the article as it stands has served its purpose, i.e., a terror-inducing headline and a story short on pertinent details.