The Traveling Wheelchair

By Kenny & Company

Entries for March, 2009

Fresh in Boston

121 Newbury Street. Boston Ma.02116 Phone: 617-421-1212 http://www.fresh.com/ Continuing down Newbury Street, I came upon a store named Fresh. It is yet another shop located on Newbury Street which has no wheelchair access. There is a staircase leading to the main entrance. Fresh specializes in quality skincare, fragrance, hair care, body care and home, products. Once [...]

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Jack Spade in Boston

117 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-262-2632 http://www.jackspade.com/ After leaving Chinatown, my friends and I headed to Newbury Street. We were interested to see if we could find any accessible shop or café located on Newbury Street because in the past we have found none. We thought a different section may have some accessible [...]

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Kate Spade in Boston

117 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-262-2632 http://www.katespade.com/home/ Kate Spade, located on Newbury Street is directly above Jake Spade. There is no wheelchair access to this shop because it has only stairs leading up to the entry door. Kate Spade specializes in Women’s clothing, hand bags and accessories. My mom loves hand bags by [...]

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New Moon Villa Restaurant in Boston

19 Edinboro St. Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-423-2061 As we continued traveling on Endinboro Street in Chinatown, we saw yet another business that I was unable to access. The New Moon Villa Restaurant is a not wheelchair accessible for it has a staircase leading up to the entry door. Kellie went inside to ask if [...]

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Best Printing Print Shop in Boston

27 Edinboro St. Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617- 482-1080 While traveling along Edinboro Street in Chinatown, we came upon Best Printing Print Shop. This shop is not wheelchair accessible due to the stairs leading to the main entry door.   Kellie went inside to ask if there was an accessible entrance. The male employee behind [...]

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Crown City Bakery in Boston

3 Edinboro Street Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-338-8889 Yesterday, Kellie, Kevin and I traveled to Chinatown in Boston to do some wheelchair accessibility reviews. After we parked, we were very disappointed with the lack of wheelchair accessibility of the sidewalks in this section of Boston, as well as many of the businesses that are not [...]

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Chau Chow City in Boston

83 Essex Street Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-338-8158 Yesterday, Kellie, Kevin and I went to Chinatown to see how wheelchair accessible this section of Boston is. We stopped for some lunch at the Chau Chow City restaurant. Kellie, Tony and I had been here many years ago, when the restaurant was called Grand Chau Chow and remembered how [...]

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Disability Policy Consortium – Press Release – Protest

Disability Policy Consortium PO Box 77 Boston, MA Phone: 617 499-6957 http://www.dpcma.org/ “The Disability Policy Consortium, Inc. is an organization of volunteer disability rights activists who share a common goal of equal opportunity for all individuals with disabilities. The DPC’s mission is to promote inclusion, independence, and empowerment by guiding statewide development of policies that [...]

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Methuen City Council – Part 2

Methuen City Hall Searles Building Room 308 41 Pleasant Street Methuen, MA 01844 Phone: 978-983-8510 http://www.cityofmethuen.net/ Since December of 2008, Kenny & co have been closely following the story of the Methuen City Council planning to pass a new law that would require all newly constructed buildings that serve the public to install automatic door [...]

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Pet Smart in Brockton

607 Belmont Street Brockton, MA Phone: 508-580-1196 www.petsmart.com/ While my friends and I were traveling in Brockton, we stopped at Pet Smart because Josh, my roommate needed to purchase some supplies for his pet hamster. I was pleased to find Pet Smart fully wheelchair accessible and a fun place to shop. There are plenty of [...]

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