Essential Numbers: Handicapped Services

TRANSPORTATION

Amtrak: 800-872-7245
Accessibilities line for people with disabilities only: 718-330-1234
Express Ambulette: 718-525-6473
Gray Line Trolley Tours: 212-397-3807
Kinetic Limousines: 877-775-0003
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Railroad: 718-217-LIRR
MTA Metro North: 212-532-4900; TDD: 800-724-3322
MTA NYC Transit Bus (Non-English Speaking): 718-330-4847; TDD: 718-596-8273
MTA NYC Transit Subway 24-hour Access Hotline: 800-734-6772; TDD: 718-596 8273
MTA NYC Transit Access NJ Transit: 973-736-5100
Ontime Transportation: 800-858-8463
Path Trains: 800-234-7284
Shortline Bus: 212-736-4700
Super Shuttle: 212-315-3006
Uptown Mobility: 718-777-3330
Wheelchair Getaways: 866-725-1803
Wheelchair Inc.: 800-862-7475

VAN RENTALS

Accessible Vans of America: 973-439-9390; 877-282-8267; Fax: 973-808-9713
Van Conversion Incorporated: 800-862-7475

THEATER ACCESS

The Broadway Line: 212-563-BWAY
HAI Summer Program: 212-575-7663
Hands On: 212-627-4898
Nederlander Theater (offers discounted tickets for the wheelchair user): 212-921-8000
Telecharge Times Square Station: 212-239-6200
Theater Access Project: 212-768-1818
HAI Summer Program: 212-575-7663
Theater Access Project: 212-768-1818
Ticketmaster: 212-307-4100
Summer Stage: 212-360-2756

SIGHTSEEING IN NEW YORK

American Museum of Natural History: 212-769-5000
Brooklyn Museum: 718-638-5000
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: 212-860-6899
Empire State Building: 212-736-3100
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 212-423-3500
Intrepid Air & Space Museum: 212-245-0072
Jewish Museum (ASL Tours): 212-423-3225
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: 212-875-5380
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 212-708-1103
Museum for African Art: 212-966-1313
Museum of Modern Art: 212-708-9639; TDD: 212-719-4537
NBC Studio Tour (30 Rockefeller Plaza): 212-664-7174
New Museum of Contemporary Art: 212-219-1355
NY Stock Exchange: 212-656-5167
Queens Museum (Flushing): 718-592-5555
Statue of Liberty: 212-363-3200
Times Square BID Visitor Information Center (226 West 42nd St.): 212-869-5453
United Nations: 212-963-4440
Whitney Museum of American Art: 212-570-3676

ACCESS AGENCIES

CIDNY (Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York): 212-674-2300
HAI Access Hotline (Access to the Arts in New York): 888-424-4685
Just One Break (Employment Services for the Disabled): 212-785-7300
Personal Touch - Personal Care Attendant: 718-468-4747; Private Nursing: 718-468-2500 x 690
Mayors Office for People with Disabilities: 212-788-2830

EQUIPMENT RENTALS

Brooklyn Respiratory Home Care: 718-331-7769
Falk: 212-744-8080
Mobility Outlook: 917-756-7984
MS Society: 212-463-7787
Queens Surgical Corp: 718-323 -8164
Scoot around: 888-441-7575
Worldwide Surgical Equipment: 718-648-8130