Disability Justice advocates from around New York focused on how to make the city prioritize accessible transit tonight, at a packed-room panel discussion at “All Access”, NYLPI’s pop-up social justice museum. “Examples abound of cities that are doing …

NYLPI’s Pop-up social justice art museum, ALL ACCESS, opened recently, and will host a series of events through the end of July. New York’s Nonprofit News Media covered the opening: About 200 people attended the opening of a new pop-up art museum in mi …

In a landmark ruling for New York’s Freedom of Information law, the New York State Supreme Court has ordered the New York Police Department to turn over unredacted body-worn camera footage in the fatal police shooting of an individual with disabilities …

NYLPI staff testified yesterday before two city council bodies in support of important accessibility legislation. Access-a-Ride Campaign Organizer Eman Rimawi gave testimony in support of  intro 1557, sponsored by Speaker Johnson and Council Members Ri …

Gothamist reporter Jen Chung has cited NYLPI’s figures in a story about New Yorkers signing up for new half-priced MetroCards through the new Fair Fares program. New Yorkers with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to poverty and unemployment, wit …

NYPLI Access-A-Ride Campaign Coordinator and Organizer Eman Rimawi has been invited to join New York City Transit’s new Advisory Committee on Transit Accessibility (ACTA). Eman was selected from dozens of qualified and passionate individuals to join th …