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President Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn’t have been able to fully access a park on Roosevelt Island named in his honor: the park begins and ends with stairs.
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Curbed NY (Vox Media)
Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit, which alleges that the park’s design violates the Americans With Disabilities act, and is not fully accessible.
New York Times
A New York park honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair for years, is not fully accessible to disabled people, according to a class-action suit filed against the state and the conservancy that runs the park.
CBS New York
A Quadriplegic Long Island woman sues medical facility over accessibility.
DNAinfo
LinkNYC only adds features for the blind after a lawsuit.
NJ.com
New Jersey has been sued over a shocking lack of special education for inmates.
NorthJersey.com
High school students with disabilities are getting a sub-par education or no education at all while doing time in adult prisons.
Newark Patch
Adult prisons in New Jersey are routinely violating the rights of incarcerated high school students with disabilities, with some teens getting no education whatsoever.
Brick Underground
Less than 20% of subway stations and 10% of curb cuts in NYC are accessible to people with mobility disabilities. DRA attorney Rebecca Rodgers says, “Twenty-six years after the ADA, there is simply no excuse.”
New York Post
More than half of New York City’s police stations aren’t accessible to people with mobility disabilities.