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July 7, 2026

Governor Hochul Celebrates National Disability Pride Month and the 36th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act on the Empire State Plaza

The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, the New York State Office of the Chief Disability Officer, and the…

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Man in suit on stage in from of a podium. He has two people in wheel chairs next to him wearing suits. Behind them is a grassy field with trees

June 30, 2026

Meet The Disabled Leaders Redefining Their Industries This Disability Pride Month

This July marks 36 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. The legislation that came out of decades of…

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Public workshop on disabilities preaches inclusivity

November 3, 2019

Public workshop on disabilities preaches inclusivity

The Student Leadership Institute hosted a public workshop addressing the stigma surrounding disabilities and how to combat them in order to…

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The NYU Ability Project seeks to create tools to help those with audiovisual disabilities better experience historical artifacts in museums such as the Met. (Photo by Patrick Tan)

October 29, 2019

NYU Program Seeks to Improve Museums’ Audiovisual Accessibility

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space museum is an American military and maritime history museum which houses its exhibits inside the USS…

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Rockland Center for the Arts increases accessibility of the arts for the blind and low-vision art enthusiasts

October 9, 2019

Rockland Center for the Arts increases accessibility of the arts for the blind and low-vision art enthusiasts

Visions of Awareness, is an exhibit exploring VISION and seeing creatively. Vision does not solely rely on the function of our eyes: sight…

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July 29, 2019

Lawsuits Target Chinatown Biz Owners Confused By Disability Rules

Two groups are working together to inform small business owners in Chinatown about how to make their storefronts ADA-compliant. …

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Installation view of Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s Scoring the Stacks, 2019, at the Brooklyn Public Library

January 19, 2019

Art Beyond Sight Named a 2019 Art and Social Justice Grantee by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation has announced the fifty-seven recipients of its fourth annual art and social-justice grants. Selected…

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Logo Art Beyond Sight, Bring Art and Culture to All

July 17, 2017

Art Beyond Sight and Collaborators Celebrate Disability Pride Month

(New York): Art Beyond Sight and other cultural and community organizations team up in celebrating Disability Pride Month with the…

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July 23, 2016

Chinatown Weekend Walk: Disability Pride ADA Birthday Party

The Chinatown Partnership, in collaboration with Art Beyond Sight, Disability Pride and support from the Mayor's Office for People with…

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July 11, 2016

Second Disability Pride Attracts Thousands in New York

More than 5,000 disabled people rolled, motored and strolled up Broadway to Madison Square Park on Sunday for the second annual Disability…

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A portrait picture of Ban Ki-moon

July 10, 2016

Ban Ki-moon's Commemorates Pride Parade 2016

The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message for the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, in New…

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Crowd of parade marchers wearing purple crowns

July 9, 2016

Disability Pride Parade NYC 2016

New York celebrated the second annual Disability Pride with a colorful parade, marching from Union Square Park to Madison Square Park…

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