LEARNING COMMUNITY 13

The city is cutting money on access-a-ride, which many disabled and elderly people use on a daily basis. I understand that this costs a lot of money. However, the government seems to have enough money to change the street signs from capital letters to lowercase (some 17 million dollars). Furthermore, the Baruch VC building is not an old building; therefore, it should have been more handicapped accessible when it was built. I mean, it is the law that buildings must be handicapped accessible. I mean, for arguments sake, Baruch is handicapped accessible. I can get into the entrance, there are elevators to get me above the first floor; however, the bathrooms aren’t fully accessible, the doors do not open easily; they are too heavy, and the classroom doors are always shut with a pail holding it open. I have addressed this problem to the disabilities office, who knows about it and said that they would be working on it, doing one bathroom a year; but, that will take 15 years to do all the floors and I won’t even be in Baruch anymore by the time they finish. Also, the way that I have to enter the 23^rd street building is unacceptable; I have to go around to 22^nd street, go up a ramp on a deserted street, and enter where the garbage lies, the delivery men make their deliveries, but other than that, not a soul is present. They really should create a ramp coming down off the staircase on the 23^rd street building. I know none of you are in my situation, but don’t you think that this is unacceptable and that something should be done about this? I am writing a letter to submit to various offices within the school and perhaps the mayor’s office about this issue, which will be submitted to the blog on another post. New York really has a bad way of prioritizing! What do you all think about this?