Lilla Sproul, an 80-year-old great grandmother, has lived in the same fifth-floor apartment at 2205 Davidson Ave. in The Bronx for almost 40 years. Now she can never leave, a prisoner of the building’s dangerous and broken elevators. “I’m sick with arthritis. I hardly can move. The elevator is needed,” she said.

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