This report outlines the Department of Transportation’s plan to enhance accessibility across the city’s transportation infrastructure.

Published by the Office of Technology and Innovation, this document details the agency’s strategies to improve digital accessibility.

Released by the Office of the Comptroller, this report discusses planned measures to ensure accessibility within the agency’s operations. It is a comprehensive roadmap that aims to delineate enhancements in Physical Access, Digital Access, Programmatic Access, Communications, and Workplace Inclusion.

The purpose of this plan is to outline how DOC will identify, remove, and prevent barriers for persons with disabilities and comply with the ADA and other legal requirements.

The 2024 NCD Progress Report provides a summary of approximately a year’s worth of developments in disability policies. In this report, NCD assesses the progress made in achieving disability policies and identifies new and emerging issues.

This report is published by the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities. The 2021 AccessibleNYC report, describes the progress to make New York City more accessible for people with disabilities in the areas of transportation, employment and financial empowerment, health, digital accessibility, arts and culture, entertainment, dining, tourism, and more.

“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and New York City Transit (NYCT) operate the least accessible major subway system in the country for people who require stair-free access. Nearly 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, only 23% of the city’s subway stations have elevators. These elevators break down often, rendering even fewer stations accessible to those with mobility impairments.”

This report provides an overview of the City’s transportation system and its efforts to make it more accessible for all users, including people with disabilities. It includes data on the number of accessible subway stations, bus stops, and sidewalks, as well as information on the City’s goals for future accessibility improvements.

Psychiatric conditions are common in autism; however, a multitude of barriers exist in accessing community-based mental health care for autistic youth. Perhaps the first and most formidable barrier is identifying a provider that offers mental health treatment to autistic youth within the many service systems involved in supporting the autism community.

Asian Americans are the fastest growing and fastest aging U.S. population, and occupy both extremes of socioeconomic and health indices. Using the 2016 NYCgov dataset, multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship of poverty, acculturation and neighborhood-level variables with disability for different ethnic groups of Asian older adults.

This article explores the connections between disability and health justice in service of further tethering the two theories and practices. The author contends that disability should shift from marker of health inequity alone to critical demographic in the analytical and practical application of health justice.

In the U.S., substantial employment and wage gaps persist between workers with and without disabilities. A lack of accessible transportation is often cited as a barrier to employment in higher wage jobs for people with disabilities. Our study compares wages and commute times between workers with and without disabilities in the New York metropolitan region.

Every day, millions of people ride New York City’s subways, light rail systems, and buses. For many, steep stairs, narrow walkways, confusing station layouts, and unintelligible loudspeaker announcements make navigating the subway challenging and stressful. For New Yorkers with disabilities (an estimated 930,100 [1] in New York City, and over 3 million in New York State [2]), these conditions may make subway ridership impossible.