{"id":642962,"date":"2023-04-29T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/disabled-new-yorkers-sue-city-over-open-streets-program\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:52:00","slug":"disabled-new-yorkers-sue-city-over-open-streets-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/29\/disabled-new-yorkers-sue-city-over-open-streets-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled New Yorkers sue city over \u2018Open Streets\u2019 program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Big Apple\u2019s \u201cOpen Streets\u201d <\/a>program discriminates against people with disabilities who rely on vehicles to travel and must be brought to a screeching halt, a new lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn federal court suit, filed Monday on behalf of a dozen disabled New Yorkers, alleges the three-year-old program is nothing more than \u201cOrwellian Newspeak\u201d and should actually be called \u201cClosed Streets.\u201d <\/p>\n

They maintain that city agencies and some nonprofits working with them are violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by regularly barricading streets to car traffic, and thus blocking access for seniors and people with disabilities who rely on vehicles to get around. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe City flaunts its Open Streets Program as one that \u2018transforms streets into open public spaces\u2019 \u2013 into blocks of pedestrian plazas \u2013 but completely refuses to acknowledge the injurious impact that the program\u2019s barriers, barricades, and other impediments have on individuals living with ambulatory disabilities,\u201d says the suit.<\/p>\n


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A dozen New Yorkers have sued New York City, alleging its Open Streets program violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n\"They<\/a>
They maintain that city agencies and some nonprofits working with them are regularly barricading streets to car traffic, and blocking access for seniors and people with disabilities who rely on vehicles to get around.
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\n\"Mayor<\/a>
Mayor Adams has expanded the Open Streets program to roughly 300 blocks covering 160 locations. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Open Streets program was created in April 2020 as a temporary measure<\/a> to help New Yorkers gather safely outdoors during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n

The City Council made it permanent in 2021 and Mayor Adams this year expanded it to roughly 300 blocks citywide covering 160 sites.<\/p>\n

A city Department of Transportation spokesman said the agency would review the suit but insisted the program \u201cenhances safety, accessibility, and equity for a large number of New Yorkers using the roads, including seniors and people with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Rich Calder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Big Apple\u2019s \u201cOpen Streets\u201d program discriminates against people with disabilities who rely on vehicles to travel and must be brought to a screeching halt, a new lawsuit says. The Brooklyn federal court suit, filed Monday on behalf of a dozen disabled New Yorkers, alleges the three-year-old program is nothing more than \u201cOrwellian Newspeak\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25673,534,29916],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-disabled","category-financial","category-yorkers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}