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OneLegUpAlex Adapting Has Questions for Mayor-Elect Mamdani About An Accessible NYC! · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett here at the One Leg
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  Speaker 1: Up Network. I'm Alex Garrett, and I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna start to bring the words off the page
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  Speaker 2: into this podcast, from my blog to the podcast, meaning
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the words I write and bring it
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  Speaker 2: to life a little bit more. Because I was excited
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  Speaker 2: when I got to import my latest article from one
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  Speaker 2: leg Up Alex dot com One leg Up Alex dot
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  Speaker 2: com on how everyone's trying to champion affordability. Here at
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  Speaker 2: one leg Up Alex word champion Accessibility Exhibit.
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  Speaker 1: A Mayor elect.
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  Speaker 2: This was the press release from November twenty fourth, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, Mayor elect Zoramum Donnie announces transition committee appointments
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  Speaker 2: to advance his affordability agenda. The Mayor elect appointed more
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  Speaker 2: than four hundred New Yorkers to seventeen transition committees, who
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  Speaker 2: together will provide critical personnel and policy insights in the
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  Speaker 2: incoming administration.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the press LEADUS wrote.
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  Speaker 2: Committees to focus on NYC's urgent challenges including housing prices,
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  Speaker 2: rising childcred care costs, and transportation access, as well as
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  Speaker 2: emergency preparedness and economic development. But here's my question on
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  Speaker 2: the one Look Up Alex pie blog. It was a
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  Speaker 2: few burning questions for Mayor elect Mum Donnie. Should he
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  Speaker 2: come on this podcast?
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to hear him? Would you like to
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  Speaker 1: hear him? Published eleven, twenty nine, twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I reached out to Meyrill, I wrote, I reached out
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  Speaker 2: to Mayor elect Mum Donnie's office for any thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: making our city more accessible and have not gotten a
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  Speaker 2: response yet. Here at one leg A, Alex, I will
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  Speaker 2: not let this go. I watch the need for a
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  Speaker 2: more accessible NYC every time I wheel around with Gabby
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  Speaker 2: as the struggle as she struggles to navigate on and
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  Speaker 2: off the subways and narrow platforms. I also watch the
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  Speaker 2: need for inaccessible NYC when able bodied people insist on
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  Speaker 2: using the ADA doors in the subway system with no repercussions.
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  Speaker 1: And also also I will add I didn't write this
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  Speaker 1: part yet, but the curb cuts?
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  Speaker 2: How many curb cuts do you find it difficult to
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  Speaker 2: navigate right here in New York? Under your leadership Mary
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  Speaker 2: or elective Mom Donnie? Will you take revenue NYC makes
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  Speaker 2: from your taxing.
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  Speaker 1: And fix curb cuts?
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  Speaker 2: Will you take revenue and invest with businesses to make
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  Speaker 2: their establishments more accessible. Will you even bring about accessibility
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  Speaker 2: through your affordable policies, that affordability.
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  Speaker 1: Policies that you want to implement.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the questions I have to ask the mayor elect.
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  Speaker 2: Should he accept my invitation to be on one leg
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  Speaker 2: Alex podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But but.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote about how back in the spring, Christopher Alvarez
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  Speaker 2: of Able News and of Ascardi.
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  Speaker 1: Alum said, you don't really.
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  Speaker 2: Have mum Donnie did not look like he had a
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  Speaker 2: plan for disabled New Yorkers, and at a black Agenda
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  Speaker 2: Democratic mayoral forum, Alvarez writes, Mam Donnie did not articulate
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  Speaker 2: a specific plan to address disabled New Yorkers, but he
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  Speaker 2: did tell Able News that the current New York City
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Adams mayor New York City Mayor Eric Adams had
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  Speaker 2: promised a specific amount of funding to be allocated for
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  Speaker 2: employment and then combine it into a larger pot. When
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  Speaker 2: you put it in a larger pot, it doesn't have specificity.
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  Speaker 1: It starts to get absorbed elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: What I commanded a commitment to do, Mum Donnie went
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  Speaker 2: on to share, is make a dedicated funding stream for
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  Speaker 2: kinds of opportunities that we can ensure that it meets
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  Speaker 2: disabled New Yorkers where they need the most and doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get used for the purposes of press release and then
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  Speaker 2: shift it over elsewhere. All of that feels like word
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  Speaker 2: salad that he told able newspaper, because we haven't really
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  Speaker 2: seen a plan for accessibility.
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  Speaker 1: Under a mayor like mum Donnie. In the transition appointments
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  Speaker 1: press release.
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  Speaker 2: Alone, there's not really much about accessibility for people disabilities.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, according to New York City, eleven
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  Speaker 2: percent of New Yorker are disabled.
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  Speaker 1: That's one million disabled New Yorkers. So in these four
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  Speaker 1: hundred appointments, may elect Mamdani in these.
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  Speaker 2: Dealings for better transportation access. And by the way, I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking right now.
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  Speaker 1: At this committee selection.
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  Speaker 2: A committee on Housing, a Committee on Youth and Education,
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  Speaker 2: a Committee on Transportation, Climate and Infrastructure, a Committee on
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  Speaker 2: Arts and Culture, a Committee on Community Organizing, a Committee
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  Speaker 2: on Community Safety, a Committee economic Development and Workforce Development.
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  Speaker 2: A Committee on an Emergency Response, a Commility on Government Operations,
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  Speaker 2: a committee on Health, a Committee on Immigrant Justice, a
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  Speaker 2: Committee on the Criminal Legal System, a Committee on Legal Affairs,
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  Speaker 2: a Committee on Small Businesses, a Committee on social Services,
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  Speaker 2: a committee on Technology, and a committee on work or Justice.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere here is there any sign of disabled representation. Disability
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  Speaker 2: representation nowhere here. So Mayor Elect Mumdanni. I see our
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  Speaker 2: friend Tom Harris is actually on one of the committees
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  Speaker 2: for community safety, friend of the Arthur ALV.
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  Speaker 1: Powerer.
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  Speaker 2: But Mayor Elect mum Donnie, where is the representation for
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  Speaker 2: people with disabilities? That is two sightings of democratic Socialism
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  Speaker 2: of America being placed on these committees.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not seeing people.
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  Speaker 2: With disabilities being represented in any of these community operations
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  Speaker 2: or committees. So why don't we just form a committee
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  Speaker 2: on accessibility? Since you have all these committees going on,
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  Speaker 2: why not a committee on accessibility? And I want to
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  Speaker 2: know how you are going to either maintain change or
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  Speaker 2: do whatever with the current Office of Disabilities in the
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  Speaker 2: New York City offices.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know that because we need to know
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  Speaker 1: if you're.
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  Speaker 2: H if your drive for affordability makes room for accessibility
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  Speaker 2: and accessible New York under mayamum Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I haven't heard yet.
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  Speaker 2: And so in these four hundred appointments and seventeen committees,
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  Speaker 2: let's make an eighteenth one a committee on accessibility because
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  Speaker 2: you can have an affordable New York, but I want
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  Speaker 2: to safe New York and I want accessible New York.
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  Speaker 2: And I will always make sure through this podcast, through
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  Speaker 2: this YouTube page, through whatever means you're listening us to
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  Speaker 2: to have one leg up for New Yorkers and one
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  Speaker 2: leg up on accessibility.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garrett