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- The New York Voter's Bill of Rights
- Disabled firefighter fights to stay on the job
- ‘Sip and Puff' Machines Give Disabled Voters Privacy
- Preying On the Vulnerable - Disabled Are Targets of Abuse
- Disabled vote tab: 52G each
- Machines Get High Marks, If Used
- A devastating loss reshapes two lives
- Wheelchair softball: Nothing soft but the ball
- Transportation for Disabled Doubles in Cost
- NYC Special Ed Students Need State Intervention
- Court Finds Emergency Crew Ignored Communication Protocol
- State Office Orders Rent Increase for New York City HIV/AIDS
- Zero Hero Stamp-Aid Flap
- Board Of Elections Try Out New Electronic Voting Machines
- Incoming leader gives WSF new legs
- The Autism Clause
- Program that helps disabled people with tax refunds expands
- Disabled Racers Split, With Organizers in Middle
- Israel’s ‘Marathon Minyan’
- Activist for disabled rights dies at 52
- A Wheelchair Rivalry Takes Root in the Desert
- Federal Hotline Will Open To Field Complaints About Election
- Board Of Elections Tests New Voting Systems Ahead Of Electio
- These Front-Row Seats Come With a Lot of Sweat
- Bernstein sets the pace for athletes with disabilities
- National Disability Institute Receives $100,000 from Bank of
- Scuba instructor dives into volunteer work
- Weighing Hevesi's ethical dilemma
- Long Island Couple Accused of Fleecing Retirees
- Access-A-Ride complaints roll in
- Closures Loom for Community-Focused Hospitals in New York
- Opening doors in parks: Special athlete on job
- Dogs of war! FDNY gives vets best pal
- Combat veteran turns his art toward heroic brethren
- Health Funds at Stake, Union Keeps Watch as Spitzer Plans Cu
- Obituary: S. Ted Antholis, 67, leading advocate for disabled
- Court case to determine whether city should pay...
- Gov. Spitzer's effort to cut Medicaid affects seriously ill
- Winning the elderly and disabled vote
- East of Doheny prod co raises funds for Freedom House
- This summer, NY's wheelchair users provided access to beach
- Now the Paddy Wagons must have wheelchair tie-downs
- Are you in distress?
- taxis of the future demonstrated in NYC
- Closing of last stable in Manhattan...
- Long waiting list for Special Ed for early grades/pre-school
- VESID: an agency founded with good intentions
- Autism educational product company started by New Yorker
- COMPSTAT type monitoring to be implemented at DOE
- Shopping carts treated better than customers in wheelchairs
- Guiding Eyes for the blind expands to NYC
- Access-A-Ride application and screening procedure changes
- Preventing coverups/abuse in NY State's mental institutions
- Separate school system surveys: hopefully equal?
- Victory for coop and condo boards sued for housing discrimin
- A good news/ bad news situation
- Sexual Assault at upper-Manhattan nursing home
- Who among us doesn't have one in the family?
- How Wheelchair Accessible is the NYC subway system?
- Disabled-rights events in NYC on June 14th
- Hearing airs limitations of NYC subway access for disabled
- Disabled speaker late because of broken subway elevators
- Mercy Homes: respite care, supervised outings to autistic/dd
- MTA president personally addresses complaints
- The blind leading the wheelchair users
- Helping special needs students with life after school
- Fedcap's role in overcoming disability-related unemployment
- The Justice Dept is investigating broken elevators
- If your disability is overactive bladder...
- Bureaucratic snafu freezes borrowing for nonprofits
- Hikes on rent-controlled apts affect disabled
- Head of TA wheels a mile in disabled riders' chair
- Whether Hybrid or Guzzler, Taxis Still Not Accessible
- MTA puts elevator outages online
- Advocate for the disabled dies
- Caring for the disabled/elderly in case of a hurricane
- Mayor Bloomberg commemorates 17th anniversary of ADA in NYC
- Privileged parking permits for the blind? Not a joke.
- NYC MTA makes improvements for disabled
- disabled man snatched from toilet, beaten during bust
- new database helps disabled find accessible housing in NYC
- Little oversight against fraud in home healthcare industry
- NYFSC starts short-term respite care service
- new 1/9 line South Ferry station to be disabled-accessible
- Direct care workers rewarded with educational opportunity
- flower designs from disabled kids adorn NYC taxis
- 9/11 death toll may rise
- NYSafetyNet.com features audio interviews on eldercare
- good news, bad news on the electronic voting machine thing
- NYC taking time to install more curb cuts
- Home Care Agency serving DD under investigation
- Nurses held criminally negligent for resigning en masse
- Supreme Court will decide NYC spec. ed. case
- NY Court approves settlement for thousands of disabled NYers
- hassles b4 Hearing Ear dog permited to attend LI high school
- Woman in wheelchair hit by moving train crashes into pillar
- 2 hhas implicated in Medicaid scam
- Is the best education for LD kids a private education
- Medicaid cap eases costs for New York counties
- Attorney quits defense of alleged abuser of adopted disabled
- Blind woman teaches others, gets BA, wins award
- Try public before private before seeking ed reimbursement
- disabled students denied extra time, accomodations on PSAT
- Hedge Fund execs rock to raise $ for A Leg To Stand On
- double amputee to run NYC marathon in handcycle division
- The grab bar project goes citywide
- State must reimburse low income disabled families
- WeCare welfare-to-work program problems
- Mayor's Slur of Dead Ground Zero Hero Cop Shameful
- Avis awards to 2 disabled NYC marathon runners
- NYC Homelessness at an all-time high
- Expanding autism help on Long Island
- blind marathonner finishes in less than 3 hrs.
- A matter of mercy-some hospitals fight to stay open
- Disabled Riders Coalition against future fare hike
- Caught on video: Giuliani avoiding questions from a pwd
- new website a clearinghouse for accessible housing
- NYCs PWDs might call 311 for accessible taxi nxt year
- lovely restrooms, but are they wheelchair-accessible?
- More NYC kids taking NAEP given accomodations 4 disability
- Lincoln Center adding ramps other svcs for disabled
- HAVA standards inferior to NYCs own
- Sunday-show discussions of Giuliani billing issue ignored th
- City Pilots Emergency Text Message Alert Program
- Drivers For Disabled Go On Strike
- Mediator to Enter Talks With Drivers of Wheelchair Vans
- Striking drivers for NYC's disabled, bus firms stalemated
- NYU child study center's controversial mental illness ads
- MTA Rapid Response Plan for Elevators and Escalators
- Emergency Alert System Glitch Prompts City Action
- Access-A-Ride Workers Ratify Contract, End Strike
- How to care for at-risk residents in your community
- psych disabled need more supportive housing
- new NYC laws, including one for the disabled
- Bridge-phobia can be helped with therapy, meds, confronting
- fed court sez NYC can stop paying for ed for 24-yr old w CP
- Will this lead to more wheelchair access 4 public transit?
- PWDs might need more than 15 minutes in the toilet
- Transportation options for NY disabled criticized
- Where's the van? Access-A-Ride consumers like tracking units
- Foxy Brown wants release from Rikers for coachlear repair
- NYC shops for next gen taxi at Detroit Auto Show
- minorities ill-served by mental health services in NYC
- Closing of West Seneca center reflects dramatic changes
- We don't want to cause a panic
- Disabilities don't keep FREE Players off-stage
- Pope is coming to town: will visit disabled kids in Yonkers
- NY Pro Bono Team Aids Aged, Ill Immigrants
- Therapy dog brings smiles to Putnam Co class: can your pet?
- SI school bus operator paid mob during Giuliani admin
- Fingerprinting to be waived 4 some PWD food stamp clients
- MTA subway trip planner useful...to a point
- Benefits for some disabled NYers to increase
- Rebate Checks may skip seniors, PWDs
- Harlem Hellfighter hero of WWI died disabled & poor
- Mayor vetoes bill protecting Section 8 tenants from bias
- ADA accessibility may be added to regional transit plan
- Stop the Congestion Tax e-mail campaign
- Separate NYC Bus System for Elderly & Disabled?
- Topic about hypnosis help ?
- congestion pricing hearing Mon 10 am-I'll be there
- State to decide on congestion plan in 2 weeks
- when you've gotta go...
- 87 more taxi medallions for wheelchair-accessible taxis
- An entertaining spin around the Mommy Track in "The Ten-Year Nap"
- City Council backs congestion pricing plan
- NYS lawmakers approve drug-discount cards
- NY Courts forced to hear 9/11 lawsuits
- Part of movie filmed from wheelchair by wheelchair user
- Polling sites, too, must be accessible
- $1 Billion Dollars Later, NYC's subway elevators still fail
- It's not a nice gesture, but part of a billable hour!
- "I was ashamed to be blind"-the new gov talks about what it was like growing up
- Posadas lead fight to help families cope with craniosynostosis
- Zagat's should rate restaurants for disabled accessibility, too!
- Department of Education Efforts Outpaced by Demand for Special Ed Services
- NYSILC seeking candidates to join State Independent Living Council
- Shocking Video Shows Brooklyn Hospital's Neglect as Patient Dies in Emergency Room
- June Community Forum with Comptroller William C. Thompson
- Free Air Conditioner & installation for over 60 and PWDs
- new kind of court helps vets with psych disabilities
- Job opening: Senior Benefits Counselor Nursing Home Transition and Diversion Waiver
- Audit of WeCare program
- The Special Ed Shuffle on 311
- NYSILC Statewide Disability Travel Survey: Take It!
- Looking for wheelchair user, Deaf person for TLC Board
- Call Gov. Patterson: urge him to sign A.7277
- cooling centers to open for duration of heat wave
- The First Annual NY Disabilities Film Festival
- Mayor Attacking "Waste" at Board of Elections
- Radio announcer's denouncement of autistic kids prompts discussion, petitions
- New York won't be able to roll out new voting machines, comply with HAVA in Sept 2009
- Metro-North making more stations wheelchair accessible throughout NY State
- Wheelchair firm's decision troubles disabled LIers
- Foolish Theatre comedy about PWDs seeks production mgr, set designer, + more! paid!
- Law allows Segways, similar vehicles, on some NYC streets
- High cost of rides for the disabled under MTA
- putting our heads together on housing for the very low income disabled in NYC
- NYSILC Disability Travel Survey: your input wanted!
- solutions to the current practices the NYPD has towards the mentally ill?
- Of all people, Gov. Patterson wants to cut Independent Living Centers and PCA wages
- U.S Justice Dept. Files Suit Against Major Apartment Developer
- advocates await Gov. David Paterson's signing the Integrated Services Bill into law
- Gov Patterson laughs at his disability
- Rolling through subways & construction with a wheelchair and determination
- Strategy meeting on legislation to combat school bullying
- Accessible Homes? Not Really, Say Disabled Residents
- Parent-to-Parent forming focus group on families with PWDs
- last minute change to BMD ballot counting procedures
- NYLPI subway survey for blind & visually impaired
- Elevators in New York City Housing Authority projects in sad shape
- Attached is CIDNY's Ballot Marking Device (BMD) Survey
- Paterson Calls Lawmakers "A Bunch of Bloodsuckers"
- Everything old is new again: MTA plans to purchase low floor double decker buses
- Seeking Volunteers to visit Nick Dupree in hospital on Roosevelt Island
- Poughkeepsie Journal: Paterson urges disability-rights groups to keep advocating
- Department of Education bus cuts hit special education kids hardest
- Realabilities - 1st NY Disabilities Film Festival
- Loreen Arbus Offers Scholarship for Disabled Female Filmmaker
- City Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Families
- Elderly Deaf Woman Fights Off Mugger In NYC
- Paterson Seeks Study of Benefits at L.I.R.R.
- YOUR help needed for Disability Mentoring Day Recruitment!
- NYC Public Housing Elevator inspectors may now moonlight
- Governor Vetoes Requirements for Most Integrated Settings, Board Training
- New York Women in Film & Television Offer $2500 Scholarship 4 PWD
- Job Opening: Medicaid Service Coordinator
- Website Points Pee Pee Dancers in the Right Direction
- Help Plan Community Transportation Services for People with Disabilities!
- Latest Edition of THE LARGEST MINORITY Radio Show Now Online!
- OMRDD Reassesses Residential Development Projects in Light of Fiscal Climate
- Study: MTA Still Has A Long Way To Go To Serve Disabled Riders
- Still Time for Improvements to Be Made By Mayor & BoE (Elections)
- Nick Dupree has moved to New York City
- Accessible Taxicabs to Receive Priority at JFK Airport
- U.S. Vouchers to Be Used for 8,400 Public Apartments
- Accessible Taxi & Livery Forums in all 5 boros
- Gov. Patterson votes w help from his wife, new BMDs allow unassisted voting 4 others
- NY State Golf Courses Enter LIRR Disability Mess
- Paterson Says Schools and Medicaid Face Cuts
- Special Camp Fair in January at Church of St. Paul the Apostle
- Governor Proposes Cuts In Growth In Education, Medicaid, public U tuiton rise
- Behind the Elevator Doors: The Great Unknown
- Hearing Schedule-New York City Council: Oversight: Mayor’s November Financial Plan
- MTA Backs Para Cuts
- Disabled Voter Claims He Was Disenfranchised On Election Day
- MTA to hike fares for all, cut services for PWDs
- Paratransit riders face more of a burden with price hikes
- Opening Doors for the Disabled
- Coram: Hit-run wheelchair victim identified
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