NYC ENABLED PROPOSAL
Overview and Background
The New York City Enabled Guide is an inclusive, comprehensive guide for tourists and visitors to the city of New York that will provide door-to-door details on a block-by-block basis throughout the greater NYC area, containing a host of specific information geared toward the disabled community.
NYC Enabled provides resources throughout the five boroughs and the tri-state area to eliminate all barriers to the physically disabled, speech impaired, hearing impaired, developmentally disabled, the visually impaired, their service animals, families, nursing aides and concerned community agencies.
The guide is wholly unique in that its scope and depth are unprecedented in any city guide ever published. NYC Enabled literally leaves no stone unturned, incorporating minutia from a vast original survey-database methodically compiled on an ongoing basis by a small army of experienced street teams.
The guide will serve as the most thorough book for disabled and non disabled tourists that the world has ever seen, and include detailed information on anything and everything that any disabled visitor may need to access in the city at any hour. The guide also provides additional access to online links to additional information and original research, timely updates, and a human interface via a toll-free number for 24-hour operator assistance in real time.
The guide's all-encompassing aspect creates a valuable narrative that will bring to life the rich history of the city alive by making it accessible to all. The project has been initiated in an attempt to respond to the paucity of up-to-date information required by disabled visitors to New York City that has become apparent to the principals of this project through their work with the Achilles Foundation helping to bring paraplegic participants to the NYC Marathon every October.
Trip Planning and Conference Services
Companion resources to the guide will include a host of digital tools such as an interactive website and a number of web 2.0 applications, chief among them are a trip planner and updates on logistical references. The guide will also provide a comprehensive service guide for professionals needing info on event planning, conference services and convention logistics, as well as a customized trip planner for people with specific disabilities to build their own NYC vacation itinerary.
Marketing Overview & Prevalence*
The number of non-institutionalized men and women 21 to 64 years old in the United States who reported a disability in 2007 was approximately 22,295,000, or 12.8 percent of the total population. New York State alone is home to over 1.3 million people reporting a disability. Currently these men and women do not have access to a single guide providing even the most basic information to help them navigate the most popular urban destination in the world. In the year prior to 2007, the median household income among civilian, non-institutionalized, men and women with or without a disability, aged 18-64 in the United States was $55,800 (plus or minus $351), adjusted for inflation to 2007 dollars.
Partnerships
NYC Enabled is being compiled and presented in conjunction with Achilles International, The NYC Mayor's Office for people with Disabilities, the NY State Office for Disabilities and the Cornell University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics, among other interested parties and stakeholders.
Purpose
• Provide access to information about existing services & resources
• Increase awareness about availability of resources
• Provide comprehensive quick reference to resources for service providers who
need to make appropriate time-efficient and humane referrals
• Reduce communication, access, & language barriers experienced by many deaf,
deaf-blind, and hard-of-hearing people and their families & service providers
• Increase partnerships and collaborations with community resources, agencies, &
community members
• Reduce risks, social injustice, and oppression
• Increase sense of empowerment & knowledge
• Comprehensive listing of Service Providers
• Up to date info for Educators & Paralegals
• Assistance to families with Deaf, Deaf-Blind,
& Hard-of-Hearing Members
• Assistive information for ASL Students and Interpreters
Assistive Technologies
• Health Care Access and medical facilities directory
• Mental Health Services
• Mental Health Services
Table of Content
To be broken down by Borough, then further categorized by each neighborhood within the borough.
Manhattan
Financial District
Tribecca
City Hall - Chinatown
lower East Side
West Village
Washington Square -NYU
no ho -- Soho
east village "losaida"
Chelsea
Flatiron, lower midtown
Murray Hill -Grammercy
Hells Kitchen
Midtown Manhattan
East Midtown -- Clinton -- Turtle Bay
Roosevelt Island
UWS -- lower
UES -- lower park to river
UWS --upper
Upper east side -- east harlem
Columbia Morningside heights
Harlem -- lower
El Barrio East Harlem -- little mexico
Manhattanville Hamilton Heights
Harlem Upper
Washington Heights
Ft. George, Ft. Tyron
Inwood
Queeens
Astoria
L.I.C.
Flushing
Corona
Jackson Heights
Brooklyn
Greenpoint
Williamsburg
Bklyn Hts, Dumbo, downtown Vinegar Hill
Ft. Greene; Clinton Hill
BoCoCa -- Redhook
Park Slope; Prospect Heights; Windsor Terrace
Parks and Places
Battery Park City
Central Park
east river park
empire state
hudson river park
javits center
lincoln center -- coumbus circle
randalls and wards islands
riverside park
rockefeller center
south street seaport
times square
union square
united nations
ground zero
transit
jfk
laguardia
newark liberty
westchester county airport
Islip Airport
penn station
port authority
private bus lines to airport
helipad
lincoln
holland
all bridges
lirr all points
grand central
chinatown buses
gw bridge terminal
metro north
PATH light rail
sports
chelsea piers
golf
swimming
tennis
yoga
billiards
bowling
continental airlines arena
yankee stadium
citifield
us tennis center
giants stadium
madison square garden
Culturals
city center
town hall
shakespeare in the
Universities
new school
nyu
columbia university
F.I.T.
Hunter (all cuny)
Maps
*Statistics for NYC Enabled have been provided via original research the Cornell University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics.