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Hanif asks about curb cut complaints and case breakdowns

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 1:52:23 · 1 min 24 sec

Hanif asks how many complaints CCHR has received about inaccessible sidewalks, blocked curb cuts, or public right-of-way barriers. Kamuf Ward says CCHR does not have that number and will circle back, and says CCHR can provide some breakdowns of reasonable accommodation versus other claims.

Shahana K. Hanif

And then a point that was

Shahana K. Hanif

made a comment that was made earlier about curb cuts I wanted to come back to because curb cuts certainly are an issue of disability and discrimination and thank God for disability advocates for fighting for curb cuts.

Shahana K. Hanif

How many complaints has CCHR received regarding inaccessible

Shahana K. Hanif

sidewalks, blocked curb cuts, or other barriers in the public.

Shahana K. Hanif

Right of way.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

So I don't think we don't have that number with us today.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

I think often when a complaint is coming to us, like it could be because a street is blocked for something like open, you know, open streets where people can't get into their houses.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

But I'm not familiar with how many curb cut cases have come to us.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

I don't know if you know anecdotally.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

So we'd have to circle back to see if we have that data.

Shahana K. Hanif

Got it.

Shahana K. Hanif

And just to clarify, you all, there are buckets of issue areas.

Shahana K. Hanif

That you're going to be able to share with us on what kinds of cases are being handled at the moment, whether it be about...

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

You mean within the disability space?

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

Yes, within the disability space.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

Yeah, we'll be able to do some breakdowns of reasonable accommodations versus other claims at a certain level of granularity our system can't report out, or we'd have to run a manual tabulation of all of the cases.

Shahana K. Hanif

So we'll circle back.

Shahana K. Hanif

So we will certainly follow up again.