The City reports: ACCESS-A-RIDE USERS FACE ACCESS CHALLENGES AT ACCESS-A-RIDE CENTERS
January 23, 2020
The CITY published a report on widespread accessibility problems in applying for Access-A-Ride, New York City’s paratransit service for people with disabilities. Among other issues, none of the six required assessment locations across the city has aut …
NY Daily News: NYC kids’ sports access disparities persist, new Education Dept. data shows
January 14, 2020
New Department of Education data shows that racial disparities in access to high school sports persist, the New York Daily News reported. The data released was mandated by a NYLPI-backed bill passed last year. The median number of teams available to a …
NYLPI challenges Fair Fares program for discriminating against people with disabilities
December 30, 2019
An article in the Queens Daily Eagle covered NYLPI’s challenge to the City’s new reduced-fare transit program, Fair Fares, quoting NYLPI Senior Staff Attorney Christopher Schuyler: But the program will leave out Access-A-Ride users, according to NYLPI. …
City reduces waste capacity after NYLPI-backed legislation and lawsuit to clean up transfer station
December 20, 2019
Empowered by a waste equity law (Local Law 152 of 2018) passed in 2018 with the support of NYLPI’s coalition, the NYC Department of Sanitation has reduced the permitted waste capacity for three transfer stations in Brooklyn. In 2017, NYLPI sued one of …
USA Today investigation of immigration detention facilities cites NYLPI’s groundbreaking work
December 20, 2019
An in-depth investigation by USA Today into abuses at immigration detention facilities across the country cited NYLPI’s groundbreaking work and quoted NYLPI Legal Director Hayley Gorenberg. The questionable medical conditions inside ICE facilities insp …
Reuters: Infamous New York island jail could have new, green life
December 20, 2019
A Reuters article quoted NYLPI Senior Staff Attorney Melissa Iachan on the campaign for a Renewable Rikers. A series of City Council bills would transform the notorious jail into a renewable energy hub. “It’s turning something that has been bleak, may …