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Disabilities

  1. street view
    One Way to a Better City: Ask Disabled People to Design ItWouldn’t everyone fare a little better if (to take just one example) airport luggage-screening counters were lower?
    By Justin Davidson
  2. the covid memorial project
    HECTOR Imagines a Monumental Party Ramp for a Disability ActivistPart 15 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll.
    By Diana Budds
  3. getting around
    A Q.A. Q&A: Quemuel Arroyo, the MTA’s New Accessibility ChiefThe agency’s first CAO says he hears a lot of support within the MTA, but “I need to make a cultural shift here.”
    By Justin Davidson
  4. controversies
    Blind Director Responds to Criticism for Casting Alec Baldwin As a Blind ManBaldwin’s casting was criticized by the Ruderman Family Foundation.
    By Hunter Harris
  5. charitable things
    Derek Lam on His New Project With the Cerebral Palsy Foundation“It’s just a universal conversation about great design.”
    By Véronique Hyland
  6. today in donald trump
    Donald Trump Allegedly Called Marlee Matlin on The Apprentice ‘Retarded’Staffers say Trump often made insensitive comments about Matlin, an Oscar-winning actress who is deaf.
    By Theresa Avila
  7. having it all
    Working Full-Time When Your Child Is DisabledWhat it’s like juggling therapists, doctor’s appointments, a second kid, and a full-time fashion job.
    By Anonymous As told to Juno DeMelo
  8. representation
    TV Has Very Few Disabled Actors, Study SaysOnly four actors with disabilities were reportedly cast in the top ten shows of the 2015-2016 season.
    By Karen Brill
  9. Donald Trump Mocks a Reporter’s Disability, Says That He Didn’tWhile defending his discredited claims about traitorous Muslims, Trump appeared to make fun of a reporter’s crippled arm.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. disabilities
    No, a Bad Attitude Is Not the ‘Only’ DisabilityRemembering the work of disability rights activist Stella Young. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  11. today in kanye
    See for Yourself, the Kanye West Wheelchair ‘Incident’ Was Not Really a ThingIt was really awkward though.
    By E. Alex Jung
  12. crimes and misdemeanors
    New York Targets Abuse of the Disabled, Advocates Say It’s ‘More of the Same’Cuomo’s plan calls for a new state agency.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. intel
    Mats for the Beach? Accessible Pools? Thank Paralympian Parks OfficialToday’s Times brought the news of new beachside mats the Parks Department installed in Brighton Beach, bringing the joys of sand and surf to the wheelchair-bound. But as it turns out, that’s far from the only accessibility initiative Parks is set to unveil, and they’re all largely thanks to Victor Calise, a 35-year-old Queens native who has used a wheelchair since he flew over his bike’s handlebars — without a helmet, folks — in a 1994 accident and in October became the Parks Department’s first accessibility coordinator.