Last month, federal prosecutors in Manhattan found The Vessel, the Instagram-friendly staircase sculpture in Hudson Yards, was in violation of the ADA. Taidgh Barronīut in similar situations, prosecutors have brokered agreements with property owners requiring them to fix accessibility barriers. Inaccessible library shelves that can only be reached by stairs in the Hunters Point Community Library.
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It is unclear what steps the feds will take if they find that the Hunters Point branch violates the ADA. Michelle Caiola of Disability Rights Advocates, which filed the suit, said: “We certainly welcome the US Attorney’s involvement as it brings more pressure to bear on the city to make the library fully accessible as quickly as possible.” The feds’ investigation was launched around the time a disability advocacy group and a Queens woman with mobility problems sued the library and the city, demanding they fix accessibility issues at the new, 32,000 square-foot branch. The decade-in-the-making outpost of the Queens Public Library system was hailed by officials as a “stunning architectural marvel” when it opened in September.īut it has since come under fire for its stacks of design and construction problems - including a three-tiered fiction section, a rooftop garden and a reading space on the children’s floor that are all inaccessible for people who use wheelchairs. The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn hired an architectural expert to conduct a December survey of the $41.5 million book hub to look for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, new Brooklyn federal court filings in a lawsuit against the library reveal.Īn attorney for the city’s Law Department blew the lid off the probe in documents filed for the pending suit, saying they needed more time because they’re still awaiting the investigation’s results. $41M Queens library has an encyclopedia’s worth of issues