July 22, 2006
City told to keep giving aid to disabled woman
A 22-year-old quadriplegic should continue to receive special services from the city Department of Education, a judge ruled yesterday.
Alba Somoza's family filed a lawsuit this year arguing that she was given a bogus diploma when she graduated from Manhattan's School of the Future four years ago and that she is entitled to $800,000 worth of additional services over two years.
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June 20, 2006
Imagine: A Run Across America
Imagine: the 100 million disabled people in developing countries, who today must crawl on the ground, suddenly owning a wheelchair. That's the goal of Free Wheelchair Mission, which will benefit from the efforts of William Hibbard, owner and CEO of New Orange Hills, a sub-acute healthcare facility, and a long time marathon runner, as he undertakes a cross-country trek to raise money to deliver 25,000 wheelchairs worldwide.
The Free Wheelchair Mission, an international non-profit organization dedicated to providing the transforming gift of mobility to the physically disabled poor in developing countries, along with media partner Reader's Digest magazine, through its website www.rd.com, will chronicle William's run, scheduled to start on his 50th birthday, Aug. 5, 2006, from Central Park's Strawberry Field in New York City; and ending 60 days later in Newport Beach, California.
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April 20, 2006
Wheelchair Users, Disability Advocates Win One for Civil Rights and Accessibility
Disabled in Action,a 36-year old organization comprised of and led by people with disabilities, has fought ceaselessly to obtain accessibility for everyone, and their fight, unfortunately, isn't even close to being over and won.
But today, they turned out in force in midtown Manhattan to announce a landmark settlement.
They filed a Federal civil rights lawsuit in 2001 against one of the largest pharmacy chains in NYC, Duane Reade, for inaccessibility. They were able to bring this lawsuit, in large part, because of the existence of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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April 13, 2006
Autopsy Confirms NYPD Detective Died As A Result of Rescue and Recovery Work at Ground Zero
Much the same way the U.S. government denied the chemical defoliant Agent Orange was the cause of widespread deaths and cancer among military personnel returning from Viet Nam, the City of New York and the New York City Police Department have repeatedly refused to recognize that hundreds, if not thousands, of rescue and recovery workers, who toiled at Ground Zero, are now seriously ill or dying from the effects of exposure to the toxic cloud that hung over the area for weeks following the terrorist attacks 9/11.
Any such admission by the City and the NYPD would have far reaching effects since it would potentially force the re-classification of disability pensions and death benefits due to the injured police officers or their survivors.
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April 10, 2006
New York on a splatter
Byrnes took a huge gamble when she left Sydney and moved to New York in 1999 with just a suitcase. When the art market went cold after the September 11 terrorist attacks she just worked harder - painting every day and late into the night.
Then there is her disability. She has Friedreich's Ataxia, a rare degenerative illness that affects one in 50,000 people. The symptoms begin at puberty and worsen until walking becomes almost impossible. Speech is impaired and life expectancy diminished.
In a wheelchair, there are practical difficulties in negotiating a new city. But now she has a green card and New York is home. She paints in a massive studio in Manhattan's Chelsea district and her clients include the Hollywood director M. Night Shyamalan who made The Sixth Sense and Signs. She has become a classic New York success story.
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April 04, 2006
A Resplendent Park Respite, Mosaic Tiles Included
Bryant Park "has consistently pushed the envelope as to how refined a park can be," Mr. Benepe said, adding that the Department of Parks and Recreation "can aspire to this level in our bathrooms, although we probably won't go as far as the cut flowers."
Mr. Benepe said that his department has embarked on a campaign to restore its bathrooms and retrofit them to increase accessibility for the disabled. "We're making a concerted effort to make sure park comfort stations are open, decent and clean," he said. "You know, we have an informal motto--we actually say this in our meetings--it's our business to help New Yorkers do theirs."
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March 31, 2006
Reading and Book Signing with Simi Linton
The English department, The MMC Literary Society & Sigma Tau Delta host a Reading & Book Signing featuring Simi Linton, author of My Body Politic: A Memoir.
When: Wednesday, May 3rd, 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Regina Peruggi Room, Marymount Manhattan College
About My Body Politic: A Memoir: While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, Simi Linton was involved in a car accident that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her young husband and her best friend. Her memoir begins with her struggle to regain physical and emotional strength and to resume her life in the world. Then Linton takes us on the road she traveled (with stops in Berkeley, Paris, Havana) and back to her home in Manhattan, as she learns what it means to be a disabled person in America.
Linton eventually completed a Ph.D., remarried, and began teaching at Hunter College. Along the way she became deeply committed to the disability rights movement and to the people she joined forces with. The stories in My Body Politic are populated with richly drawn portraits of Linton's disabled comrades, people of conviction and lusty exuberance who dance, play-and organize--with passion and commitment.
My Body Politic begins in the midst of the turmoil over Vietnam and concludes with a meditation on the U.S. involvement in the current war in Iraq and the war's wounded veterans. While a memoir of the author's gradual political awakening, My Body Politic is filled with adventure, celebration, and rock and roll-Salvador Dali, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix all make cameo appearances. Linton weaves a tale that shows disability to be an ordinary part of the twists and turns of life and, simultaneously, a unique vantage point on the world.
Contact the MMC English Department (212-517-0601) for more information.
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March 29, 2006
Critics Raise Concerns Over 9/11 Memorial Exits
But now, with preparatory construction starting, another issue is coming into public view: How safe will the memorial be? Not safe enough, some critics fear. They raise the possibility of a fire or a bomb aimed at the thousands who will gather daily to remember the victims of two terrorist attacks on that very ground.
They point with concern to enormous halls far below street level. Advisers to the Skyscraper Safety Campaign, an organization led by two relatives of 9/11 victims, say that the plan for long transfer corridors between the exit doors and stairwells leading up to street level might prompt some visitors, particularly if they were disabled or out of shape, to reverse course and try get to the wide ramps in the central memorial hall, creating a potentially disastrous bottleneck.
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March 17, 2006
Civil Rights Suit Over ADA Violation Settled
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York has announced that the United States has filed in Manhattan federal court, and simultaneously settled, a civil rights lawsuit alleging that the owners and operators of a commercial office building in Manhattan violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to lease space to a non-profit social services organization because that organization planned to use the space to provide services to people with disabilities.
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March 06, 2006
Patty Duke Sues Manhattan Ensemble Theater
As reported by the New York Post, Patty Duke is suing the Manhattan Ensemble Theater Co. for $2.5 million after she was dropped from the national tour of "Golda's Balcony" in 2005.
The Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress is accusing Broadway producer, David Fishelson, and the theater for discrimination on account of her heart condition. According to the suit, Fishelson and the theater released Duke from the title role after a January 2005 meeting where she disclosed she was unable to complete a television project after a heart-bypass surgery.
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March 03, 2006
One woman, many voices
The show [Bridge and Tunnel], set in a Queens coffeehouse, and its multitalented writer and performer have ridden that groundswell to theatrical stardom. Three years ago, the 32-year-old Jones was largely known as a hip-hop poet and performance artist, most famous for having successfully faced down the FCC over an indecency ruling for her recording "Your Revolution," a suggestively witty rant against rap misogyny.
That changed when Meryl Streep, impressed with Jones' performance at an Equality Now benefit, lent her celebrity as producer of a 2004 off-Broadway version of "Bridge & Tunnel" at the Culture Project. The show garnered rave reviews and a seven-month sold-out run. After a hiatus, it reopened last month on Broadway to more acclaim, including Charles Isherwood's New York Times review that praised the writing as "lively, compassionate and smart" and Jones as "an astonishing mimic" for 14 characters as diverse as a hyperkinetic black rapper, a disabled Mexican immigrant worker and a Chinese American mother trying to make sense of her daughter's lesbian marriage. The show has since been extended at the Helen Hayes Theatre through July 9.
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March 02, 2006
For ladies who launch: Help in getting biz off ground
Denise Spencer wants to import jewelry from Istanbul. Tamar Freudmann dreams of opening a consultancy that would help businesses cater to the needs of the disabled. Melissa Milam's gearing up to launch Blue Lily, a line of organic skin-care products.
Before last week, they had never met. But within minutes of gathering at Ladies Who Launch, a fast growing, for-profit women's business group, these would-be moguls were trading business cards and offering each other tips.
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February 17, 2006
Manhattan priest is 'ordained to the world, not just to the deaf'
The Rev. Christine Selfe is the vicar for St. Ann's Church for the Deaf in Manhattan, a calling she has enjoyed "one year exactly on January 5," she smiled. "It's been a wonderful year."
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February 02, 2006
Before It Had a Name: Talking with Joyce Wallace, the first doctor to study AIDS in women
Dr. Joyce Wallace says she was the first person--in the world--to study AIDS in women. At her Greenwich Village clinic in early 1981, she found two cases of Karposi's Sarcoma, a disease estimated to appear just once in 10 million people per year. AIDS did not yet have a name, but Joyce saw in the two cases hints of an epidemic, and jumped in her car with a bag of condoms and syringes. Over the next twenty years, most of them with New York City prostitutes, Joyce forged a new and gritty front in the study of AIDS. Burnt out by death, she now works with developmentally disabled adults.
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Lion King and Tommy Music Director Stabbed in New York City
Joseph Church--a Broadway musical director of The Lion King and The Who's Tommy--was the victim of a random stabbing Feb. 1 near New York City's Washington Square Park.
Church was en route to New York University's Steinhardt School, where he serves as a professor, when the attack occured. According to reports, police say Mark Davila stabbed Dr. Church in the chest several times with a screw driver before fleeing the scene into the nearby park.
Davila--who was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon--had a previous criminal record that included robbery, drug possession and possession of a weapon. His mother told the New York Daily News that her son had recently lost his job at a facility that helps the disabled and ended a relationship with the mother of his three-year-old daughter.
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January 30, 2006
Disabled Vets Find Write Way
A Manhattan theatrical workshop is inviting disabled vets home from Iraq and Afghanistan to sign up for a free writing program designed just for them--and Tony Soprano hopes it's an offer they can't refuse.
Some of the 40 vets who take the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped's seminar may get to hear their words performed next fall on Broadway by the likes of James Gandolfini, star of HBO's "The Sopranos."
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January 17, 2006
A Determined Volunteer Gets Some Help for Herself
There are those who let a disability get them down. Then there is Luda Demikhovskaya.
"This is how I have learned to survive," she said the other day, smiling broadly from a motorized wheelchair and offering a bright blue business card to a visitor. "Lyudmita Demikhovskaya," the card says, "Disabled Activist."
"I have always volunteered," she said. "I help other people."
But even Ms. Demikhovskaya, 64 and seemingly indomitable, needs help from time to time.
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January 14, 2006
Square's fountain to be moved; water jets will move musicians
Folk singers strummed and warbled ballads against it. Local politicians--not one but four--testified against it. The Fine Arts Federation of New York stated it was opposed to the idea. Disabled advocates in wheelchairs angrily said they were being used as "pawns"--and not to do it in their name. And most of the people offering testimony during four hours of hearings on Monday said they didn't want the Washington Square Park fountain moved 22 feet to the east. But that didn't matter to the Art Commission, which voted to approve the shifting of the fountain, as well as the park's two statues, as part of the Parks Department's $16 million renovation project.
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January 10, 2006
Wheelchair user presses protest against club
Most party people in this town have felt the pangs of rejection from being denied entry to a hip nightclub. But when bouncers told 21-year-old Michael Harris that he couldn't enter the Star nightclub with his wheelchair on New Year's Eve, they may have been breaking the law.
"They basically told me they had a policy not to admit people in wheelchairs," Harris said. "They told me that if I didn't leave they would pick me up and take me out of my wheelchair and throw me into the street."
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January 04, 2006
Wheelchair user may sue; wants to go amphibious in the fountain
From an article in The Villager about planned renovations to Washington Square Park:
...the Parks Department says a major reason it wants to raise the park's sunken plaza is to make it handicapped accessible.Now an advocate for the disabled is threatening that her organization will sue if a permanent ramp isn't added to allow the disabled to go into the fountain itself.
Margie Rubin, a resident of the Westbeth artists complex and a member of Disabled in Action--the group that forced New York City buses to add wheelchair lifts--says people in wheelchairs, like herself, or otherwise disabled, have the right to go into the fountain.
Jake Dobkin editorializes thusly at Gothamist:
The Parks Department is saying that no access will be provided, because no one is supposed to go into the fountain itself--the water is recycled, so it's actually fairly polluted, and unsafe to ingest. Even if that wasn't true, should people really be taking wheelchairs into a fountain? Isn't rust an issue? What about electric wheelchairs--aren't there electrocution dangers? Is this a case of political correctness run amok? No lawsuit has yet been filed--let's hope that common-sense wins out here.
(Oh look, there's even a helpful picture to illustrate what will, clearly, happen should a wheelchair user dare enter the fountain!)
Sounds pretty ludicrous, right? However, Mr. Dobkin neglects to include this paragraph from the original article:
"When we move the fountain, we're going to be rebuilding it. And we are going to explore the use of temporary ramps when the fountain is off," Johnston said. "It is used as a performance space when it's not turned on--which is 60 percent of the time."
Call me cynical, but I have a hard time believing the good people at the Parks Department will be mindful enough to lug said temporary ramps into position every time the fountain is turned off. Every wheelchair user knows how that will work. So I have to agree with DIA that a permanent ramp deserves consideration, if for no other reason than efficient use of rebuilding funds. I'm sure wheelchair users everywhere thank Mr. Dobkin for his kind consideration of what might happen to our wheelchairs should one of us decide to go in the fountain, but I like to think we're capable of making our own judgments as to what might cause a rust or electrical problem.
And should one of us do something utterly foolish like go dance around in a fountain in our modern, mostly heavy plastic wheelchairs, I expect the Parks Department will issue an equitable and appropriate punishment, on par with the punishment for able-bodied people who enter the fountain.
Asked if Park Enforcement Patrol officers will issue tickets to parents whose children play in the water, Johnston said each situation will be handled on "a case-by-case basis" but that parents would be told to use the sprinklers in the park, which will be added under the renovation.Read the rest of "Wheelchair user may sue; wants to go amphibious in the fountain".
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December 29, 2005
Ball Outfitted With Light Bulbs For Drop On New Year's Eve
Close to a million people packed Times Square last year to usher in 2005.
The NYPD will be closing the streets in the area as they become full. Streets between Broadway and Seventh Avenue will be closed to cars beginning at 4 p.m., beginning with 43rd and 44th streets.
As the area becomes more congested, police will shut down 44th Street between Broadway and Seventh, and so on up to Central Park.
If you plan to walk to the festivities, police say you will only be able to enter Times Square at Sixth or Eighth avenues.
There will also be an area on the northwest corner of 43rd Street set aside for the disabled who want to view the ball drop.
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December 22, 2005
Day of Disruption
Some of those who trekked in were forced to rely on creative measures, from Rollerblading to hitchhiking. One disabled woman, who normally needs help from conductors to board the train and bus on her daily commute, rode her motorized wheelchair nearly 50 blocks.
"I'm just trying to go with the flow," said Saiph Rossworn, 26. "I'll just have to do it till it's over."
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December 09, 2005
Manhattan: Home Health Workers Strike
New York's largest health-care union, 1199 United Healthcare Workers East, began a four-day strike yesterday against People Care, a home-health agency that cares for the elderly and disabled in their homes. The union said that about 800 of People Care's 1,100 workers walked out to protest the company's failure to sign a contract that several other home-health agencies have signed. A company spokesman said that only 200 workers walked out. The union says People Care pays $6.50 an hour, and the contract calls for $10 an hour beginning in 2007. People Care said wages were competitive with the rest of the industry."
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November 03, 2005
Casting Tradition to the Wind: Disability and Theatre in the 21st Century
The theatre plays a vital role in democracy, serving as a testing ground for society's most sacred beliefs, mores, and aspirations. Ideas about disability have been "tested" on audiences since Sophocles. Yet disability, as currently represented in character, theme, and metaphor, seems, to those who live it, absurdly out of date and narrowly conceived.
It is time to take stock of the representations. It is time to reimagine casting decisions. It is time for disabled people to be let out of the closet and onto the stage, backstage, theatre offices and Board rooms. Our goal is not merely to increase the participation of people with disabilities in theatre, but to upset the very structures and ways of thinking that have excluded them in the first place. Join us in a discussion about innovative strategies to integrate the theatre curriculum and ways to make the theatrical process more inclusive of disabled people.
Lecture is free and open to the public. ASL Interpreters will be present. Buffet dinner (optional) after seminar ($19). RSVP for event and/or dinner by November 7, 2005. Space is limited; RSVP does not guarantee a place. Please RSVP to dsseminar@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway Room, 3rd floor.
Enter the Columbia Campus at 115th Street and Broadway, follow path to building entrance on right.
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October 25, 2005
Stuy Town OKs sitdown over parking issues
At a hearing on the issue yesterday, Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz (D-Manhattan), whose district includes the complex, especially complained that the changes reduced the number of parking spots for the disabled.
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October 20, 2005
Where, at Last, Ripeness Is Really All
The convention affords the opportunity to hear how performers who really work at it can grow and deepen over time. Those who have followed the careers of Ms. Akers and Wesla Whitfield, in particular, could see on Monday how each has gained in confidence as a stage performer and in depth as an interpreter. Ms. Whitfield, who is disabled, has chosen in recent years to appear in a wheelchair rather than be carried onto the stage. The security and freedom this gives her to gesture and emote has transformed her from a somewhat inhibited performer into a fierce, thrilling one.
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October 15, 2005
For Trade Center Builders, the Future Starts With a Very Old Number
What makes that height so important is that it determines the relationship of the plaza, which must be tabletop flat, to everything around it: the Freedom Tower, the PATH terminal and the surrounding streets and sidewalks. But setting the dimension is not easy on a site that slopes down more than 20 feet as it approaches the Hudson River.
The plaza itself needs to be as close to the sidewalk as possible, no more than three and a half feet higher or lower, so that it can be seen and approached easily by all visitors--including the disabled--from all directions, without walls or long flights of stairs.
"The appearance of the memorial as well as the accessibility of the memorial were paramount," said John P. Cahill, chief of staff to Gov. George E. Pataki and the top downtown redevelopment official.
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September 16, 2005
Dance Listings: Tamar Rogoff's "Christina Olson: American Model"
Claire Danes will star as the disabled woman Andrew Wyeth made famous in his painting "Christina's World." Wednesday through next Friday at 8 p.m.; Sept 24 at 4 and 8 p.m.; Sept. 25 at 4 p.m., P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue, at Ninth Street, East Village, (212) 477-5288 or www.ps122.org; $20; students and 65+, $15. (Dunning)
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September 14, 2005
Ground Zero: The Most Dangerous Workplace
After EPA failed to warn the estimated 40,000 rescue and recovery workers who responded to the WTC tragedy on or after 9/11, thousands have fallen ill and hundreds encounter resistance to health care and compensation claims.
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September 02, 2005
Manhattan's last public stable is still at full gallop
A few people begin their mornings here with a gentle trot into Central Park; teenagers learn to groom horses and disabled adults combine riding with physical therapy. Children flock to an equestrian summer camp; underprivileged children get their first opportunity to mount an Appaloosa. People who board their own horses at the stable filter in and out. [See more about therapeutic riding in the Disabled Sports category.]
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September 01, 2005
Closing VA hosp betrays veterans
Thanks to a close relationship with the New York University School of Medicine, the Manhattan Veteran's Affairs Medical Center has become the premier veterans hospital in the country. On site there are six VA-designated Centers of Excellence. The Northeast Prosthetic Center housed there is the only laboratory in the region authorized to fabricate definitive artificial limbs.
And what does the Department of Veterans Affairs want todo? Close the hospital. Officials assert veterans can receive the same level of care at the Brooklyn facility. But traveling to Brooklyn would pose challenges to patients, many of whom are disabled. To me, this does not sound like saluting our country's noble veterans.
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August 28, 2005
Getting Out the Vote, Not to Mention the Dictionary
The candidates agree that the reputation of the court needs to be improved, as do its practices. Cases move at a crawl. They agree that the courthouse, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece on Chambers Street, needs to be renovated. Both hate having to raise money for the race. Both are articulate and attractive, smart and substantial.
But there are differences. Ms. Glen, who recently stepped down as the dean of the City University of New York Law School, has served as a Supreme Court judge and is an expert on law and aging. Ms. Markewich is an experienced litigator at a large firm who tries cases in Surrogate's Court, and is an advocate for the disabled. She uses two artificial legs.
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August 23, 2005
OU Awarded Grant for After-School Programming for Manhattan Youth with Disabilities
A grant for weekday after-school programming for teens and young adults with special needs has been awarded to the Orthodox Union’s National Jewish Council for Disabilities (NJCD)/Yachad program through its Jewish Union Foundation division. The once-a-week activities are expected to begin the second week of September at a location to be announced.
The grant was provided by the Manhattan Family Support Committee of the Manhattan Developmental Disabilities Service Organization, a division of the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. The grant was was awarded because Orthodox Jewish students cannot take part in many supplementary programs because they occur on Saturdays.
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August 05, 2005
Children's Events
'ELIZA'S WINDOW,' a puppet play with music about a disabled girl dealing with her parents' separation, written and directed by Natalie Burgess. Saturdays at 2 p.m. through August at Manhattan Theater Source, 177 Macdougal Street, at West Eighth Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 501-4751. Tickets: $12.
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August 03, 2005
Pedal pushing for a new path
...Fundaro and other bikers could soon have smooth pedaling along a 2.5-mile bikeway parallel to the Coney Island Boardwalk from W. 37th St. to Brighton 15th St. in Brighton Beach.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan) secured $2.56 million for the project last week as part of a federal transportation bill.
Funding will also allow for the installation of ramps leading directly to the water to provide access to the beach for the elderly, disabled and people pushing strollers.
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The Name Game
...the move to make the District 2 ballot whiter, straighter, and more male could seem at odds with CoDA's mission. "Shame on you, CoDA," says Michael Lopez, the disabled candidate. "Shame on you for preventing Hispanics and gays from getting on the ballot."
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July 13, 2005
Diapers Revive Dead Dot-Com
...Instead, Siragusa decided to start a new web-based delivery service that would bring the baby goods--and the occasional DVD, pint of ice cream or tube of toothpaste--to him within an hour.
The service, called MaxDelivery, went live in March in New York City. It's currently delivering assorted grocery, drugstore and DVD products to those living in an area roughly south of 24th Street in Manhattan. Orders can be taken at any time through the website, and deliveries are made each day from 12 p.m. to midnight.
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