December 3, 2025 • 8 mins
Mayor-elect Mamdani Press release as referenced by OneLegUpAlex (https://bricartsmedia.org/abou...:~:text=Committees%20to%20focus%20on%20NYC's,emergency%20preparedness%20and%20economic%20development)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's your host, Alex Garrett here at the One Leg
Up Network. I'm Alex Garrett, and I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm gonna start to bring the words off the page
into this podcast, from my blog to the podcast, meaning
I'm gonna say the words I write and bring it
to life a little bit more. Because I was excited
when I got to import my latest article from one
leg Up Alex dot com One leg Up Alex dot
(00:34):
com on how everyone's trying to champion affordability. Here at
one leg Up Alex word champion Accessibility Exhibit.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A Mayor elect.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
This was the press release from November twenty fourth, twenty
twenty five, Mayor elect Zoramum Donnie announces transition committee appointments
to advance his affordability agenda. The Mayor elect appointed more
than four hundred New Yorkers to seventeen transition committees, who
together will provide critical personnel and policy insights in the
(01:11):
incoming administration.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This is what the press LEADUS wrote.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Committees to focus on NYC's urgent challenges including housing prices,
rising childcred care costs, and transportation access, as well as
emergency preparedness and economic development. But here's my question on
the one Look Up Alex pie blog. It was a
(01:39):
few burning questions for Mayor elect Mum Donnie. Should he
come on this podcast?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Would you like to hear him? Would you like to
hear him? Published eleven, twenty nine, twenty five.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I reached out to Meyrill, I wrote, I reached out
to Mayor elect Mum Donnie's office for any thoughts on
making our city more accessible and have not gotten a
response yet. Here at one leg A, Alex, I will
not let this go. I watch the need for a
more accessible NYC every time I wheel around with Gabby
as the struggle as she struggles to navigate on and
(02:14):
off the subways and narrow platforms. I also watch the
need for inaccessible NYC when able bodied people insist on
using the ADA doors in the subway system with no repercussions.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And also also I will add I didn't write this
part yet, but the curb cuts?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
How many curb cuts do you find it difficult to
navigate right here in New York? Under your leadership Mary
or elective Mom Donnie? Will you take revenue NYC makes
from your taxing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And fix curb cuts?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Will you take revenue and invest with businesses to make
their establishments more accessible. Will you even bring about accessibility
through your affordable policies, that affordability.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Policies that you want to implement.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Those are the questions I have to ask the mayor elect.
Should he accept my invitation to be on one leg
Alex podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But but.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I wrote about how back in the spring, Christopher Alvarez
of Able News and of Ascardi.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Alum said, you don't really.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Have mum Donnie did not look like he had a
plan for disabled New Yorkers, and at a black Agenda
Democratic mayoral forum, Alvarez writes, Mam Donnie did not articulate
a specific plan to address disabled New Yorkers, but he
(03:55):
did tell Able News that the current New York City
Mayor Adams mayor New York City Mayor Eric Adams had
promised a specific amount of funding to be allocated for
employment and then combine it into a larger pot. When
you put it in a larger pot, it doesn't have specificity.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It starts to get absorbed elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What I commanded a commitment to do, Mum Donnie went
on to share, is make a dedicated funding stream for
kinds of opportunities that we can ensure that it meets
disabled New Yorkers where they need the most and doesn't
get used for the purposes of press release and then
shift it over elsewhere. All of that feels like word
salad that he told able newspaper, because we haven't really
(04:39):
seen a plan for accessibility.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Under a mayor like mum Donnie. In the transition appointments
press release.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Alone, there's not really much about accessibility for people disabilities.
And by the way, according to New York City, eleven
percent of New Yorker are disabled.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's one million disabled New Yorkers. So in these four
hundred appointments, may elect Mamdani in these.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Dealings for better transportation access. And by the way, I'm
looking right now.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
At this committee selection.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A committee on Housing, a Committee on Youth and Education,
a Committee on Transportation, Climate and Infrastructure, a Committee on
Arts and Culture, a Committee on Community Organizing, a Committee
on Community Safety, a Committee economic Development and Workforce Development.
A Committee on an Emergency Response, a Commility on Government Operations,
(05:46):
a committee on Health, a Committee on Immigrant Justice, a
Committee on the Criminal Legal System, a Committee on Legal Affairs,
a Committee on Small Businesses, a Committee on social Services,
a committee on Technology, and a committee on work or Justice.
Nowhere here is there any sign of disabled representation. Disability
(06:10):
representation nowhere here. So Mayor Elect Mumdanni. I see our
(06:34):
friend Tom Harris is actually on one of the committees
for community safety, friend of the Arthur ALV.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Powerer.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But Mayor Elect mum Donnie, where is the representation for
people with disabilities? That is two sightings of democratic Socialism
of America being placed on these committees.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But I'm not seeing people.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
With disabilities being represented in any of these community operations
or committees. So why don't we just form a committee
on accessibility? Since you have all these committees going on,
why not a committee on accessibility? And I want to
(07:21):
know how you are going to either maintain change or
do whatever with the current Office of Disabilities in the
New York City offices.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I want to know that because we need to know
if you're.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
H if your drive for affordability makes room for accessibility
and accessible New York under mayamum Donnie.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's what I haven't heard yet.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And so in these four hundred appointments and seventeen committees,
let's make an eighteenth one a committee on accessibility because
you can have an affordable New York, but I want
to safe New York and I want accessible New York.
And I will always make sure through this podcast, through
(08:36):
this YouTube page, through whatever means you're listening us to
to have one leg up for New Yorkers and one
leg up on accessibility.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm Alex Garrett
Here's your host, Alex Garrett here at the One Leg
Up Network. I'm Alex Garrett, and I will tell you this.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm gonna start to bring the words off the page
into this podcast, from my blog to the podcast, meaning
I'm gonna say the words I write and bring it
to life a little bit more. Because I was excited
when I got to import my latest article from one
leg Up Alex dot com One leg Up Alex dot
(00:34):
com on how everyone's trying to champion affordability. Here at
one leg Up Alex word champion Accessibility Exhibit.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A Mayor elect.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
This was the press release from November twenty fourth, twenty
twenty five, Mayor elect Zoramum Donnie announces transition committee appointments
to advance his affordability agenda. The Mayor elect appointed more
than four hundred New Yorkers to seventeen transition committees, who
together will provide critical personnel and policy insights in the
(01:11):
incoming administration.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This is what the press LEADUS wrote.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Committees to focus on NYC's urgent challenges including housing prices,
rising childcred care costs, and transportation access, as well as
emergency preparedness and economic development. But here's my question on
the one Look Up Alex pie blog. It was a
(01:39):
few burning questions for Mayor elect Mum Donnie. Should he
come on this podcast?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Would you like to hear him? Would you like to
hear him? Published eleven, twenty nine, twenty five.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I reached out to Meyrill, I wrote, I reached out
to Mayor elect Mum Donnie's office for any thoughts on
making our city more accessible and have not gotten a
response yet. Here at one leg A, Alex, I will
not let this go. I watch the need for a
more accessible NYC every time I wheel around with Gabby
as the struggle as she struggles to navigate on and
(02:14):
off the subways and narrow platforms. I also watch the
need for inaccessible NYC when able bodied people insist on
using the ADA doors in the subway system with no repercussions.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And also also I will add I didn't write this
part yet, but the curb cuts?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
How many curb cuts do you find it difficult to
navigate right here in New York? Under your leadership Mary
or elective Mom Donnie? Will you take revenue NYC makes
from your taxing.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And fix curb cuts?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Will you take revenue and invest with businesses to make
their establishments more accessible. Will you even bring about accessibility
through your affordable policies, that affordability.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Policies that you want to implement.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Those are the questions I have to ask the mayor elect.
Should he accept my invitation to be on one leg
Alex podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But but.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I wrote about how back in the spring, Christopher Alvarez
of Able News and of Ascardi.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Alum said, you don't really.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Have mum Donnie did not look like he had a
plan for disabled New Yorkers, and at a black Agenda
Democratic mayoral forum, Alvarez writes, Mam Donnie did not articulate
a specific plan to address disabled New Yorkers, but he
(03:55):
did tell Able News that the current New York City
Mayor Adams mayor New York City Mayor Eric Adams had
promised a specific amount of funding to be allocated for
employment and then combine it into a larger pot. When
you put it in a larger pot, it doesn't have specificity.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It starts to get absorbed elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What I commanded a commitment to do, Mum Donnie went
on to share, is make a dedicated funding stream for
kinds of opportunities that we can ensure that it meets
disabled New Yorkers where they need the most and doesn't
get used for the purposes of press release and then
shift it over elsewhere. All of that feels like word
salad that he told able newspaper, because we haven't really
(04:39):
seen a plan for accessibility.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Under a mayor like mum Donnie. In the transition appointments
press release.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Alone, there's not really much about accessibility for people disabilities.
And by the way, according to New York City, eleven
percent of New Yorker are disabled.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's one million disabled New Yorkers. So in these four
hundred appointments, may elect Mamdani in these.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Dealings for better transportation access. And by the way, I'm
looking right now.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
At this committee selection.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A committee on Housing, a Committee on Youth and Education,
a Committee on Transportation, Climate and Infrastructure, a Committee on
Arts and Culture, a Committee on Community Organizing, a Committee
on Community Safety, a Committee economic Development and Workforce Development.
A Committee on an Emergency Response, a Commility on Government Operations,
(05:46):
a committee on Health, a Committee on Immigrant Justice, a
Committee on the Criminal Legal System, a Committee on Legal Affairs,
a Committee on Small Businesses, a Committee on social Services,
a committee on Technology, and a committee on work or Justice.
Nowhere here is there any sign of disabled representation. Disability
(06:10):
representation nowhere here. So Mayor Elect Mumdanni. I see our
(06:34):
friend Tom Harris is actually on one of the committees
for community safety, friend of the Arthur ALV.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Powerer.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But Mayor Elect mum Donnie, where is the representation for
people with disabilities? That is two sightings of democratic Socialism
of America being placed on these committees.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But I'm not seeing people.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
With disabilities being represented in any of these community operations
or committees. So why don't we just form a committee
on accessibility? Since you have all these committees going on,
why not a committee on accessibility? And I want to
(07:21):
know how you are going to either maintain change or
do whatever with the current Office of Disabilities in the
New York City offices.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I want to know that because we need to know
if you're.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
H if your drive for affordability makes room for accessibility
and accessible New York under mayamum Donnie.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's what I haven't heard yet.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And so in these four hundred appointments and seventeen committees,
let's make an eighteenth one a committee on accessibility because
you can have an affordable New York, but I want
to safe New York and I want accessible New York.
And I will always make sure through this podcast, through
(08:36):
this YouTube page, through whatever means you're listening us to
to have one leg up for New Yorkers and one
leg up on accessibility.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm Alex Garrett
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