Accessible NYC

Cookie Dō or cookie don’t? This popular new shop selling cookie dough is the latest NYC food fad, offering cups of raw cookie dough at overinflated prices. If you can handle waiting on line for between 1-4 hours and then negotiate a pair of small steps, Cookie Do. If not, cookie don’t, and make your […]

Less than a week ago, the 16 million dollar SeaGlass Carousel opened in Battery Park, and though their website was devoid of any accessibility information, I made plans to go anyway. Without calling ahead. There was a time, back when I was a kid/young adult, when wheelchair accessibility could not be assumed. You either had […]

It’s Easter folks! I’m Buddhist, but the beloved toddlers in my life are being brought up Catholic, and I adore my nephews, so off to Manhattan looking for chocolate eggs laid by a rabbit to remember a carpenter who arose from the dead.  Hey, I said I’m Buddhist. There is a store in my favorite shopping center — The […]

Accessible NYC welcomes new author Mia Vayner, who caught our attention with her firebrand blog Disabled Access Denied. Since the goals of our sites are so similar, we invited her here to post her disability access reviews, good or bad, of her travels around New York City. Patronize or boycott these venues as you see […]

Arlene’s Grocery used to be a Puerto Rican bodega, but it and a neighboring butcher shop were turned into a bar and live music venue in 1995. It hosts a variety of musical acts, although punk and hard rock are the most common. Wheelchair users can enter with the red wheelchair ramp at the front, […]