by ROMA TORRE NEW YORK CITY
Whether it's skydiving, water skiing, or boxing, Alex Elegudin and Yannick Benjamin help New Yorkers with disabilities put their lives back in motion.
by Vincent Barone
Alex Elegudin is a busy man.
The first-ever accessibility chief at New York City Transit has logged long hours as he carves out his new position in the mountain of bureaucracy that is the MTA.
by Seth McBride
In an unremarkable brick building just a few blocks from Central Park, two young women prepare for a boxing lesson. They’ve come as they are, in street clothes and power chairs, with no special gear except the padded gloves their trainer slips onto their uncooperative hands.
by Seth McBride
In June, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City announced that it was hiring Alex Elegudin, an attorney, wheelchair user, long-time disability rights advocate and New Mobility’s 2017 Person of the Year, as its first-ever accessibility chief.
by Jonathan Wolfe
Good morning on this damp Tuesday.
Subway and bus riders, say hello to the M.T.A.’s new accessibility chief: Alex Elegudin.
by CITY & STATE
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On this year’s list, there are progressives who mounted long-shot bids for the state Senate – and delivered on ambitious campaign promises after taking office...
by James S. Russell
Alex Elegudin accepted the position of senior advisor for system-wide accessibility at New York City Transit about a year and a half ago.
by Anna Quinn
The MTA turned Jay Street-MetroTech station into a "lab" with more than a dozen new tools it will try out to help disabled NYers get around.
NYC's subway system is notoriously inaccessible: Less than a quarter of its stations are ADA-compliant. But the transit authority is working to change that, most notably by hiring Alex Elegudin, cofounder of disability advocacy group Wheeling Forward.
by Seth McBride
The opens in a new windowNew York Taxi and Limousine Commission announced on Wednesday, Jan. 24, that it would be expanding its opens in a new windowAccessible Dispatch Program.
A local nonprofit is helping people with disabilities who may not otherwise have the means to get the services they need.
Wheeling Forward was founded by Alex Elegudin and Yannick Benjamin back in 2011. The two met by chance in 2003 after both were paralyzed in car accidents. They became best friends, helping each other through the toughest of days, and now they pay it forward.
U.S. Embassy Port of Spain joined forces with Wheeling Forward of New York and local NGOS to hold a roundtable discussion on disability rights.
Five people received wheelchairs from the US Embassy in Port-of-Spain, that were donated by Wheeling Forward of New York.
By some measures, the New York City subway system is one of the most accessible to people in wheelchairs or with other challenges: It has 130 accessible stations, the most in North America. By other measures, it is abysmally inaccessible, since about two-thirds of all stations are useless to such people.
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