Bodega ramps are all over New York City. The humble, concrete blobs ease entry into delis and other stores — and affirm the civic compact. nyti.ms/3UnFivI
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Quality reporting NYT 🤦🏻♀️
aug 13, 2025, 11:59 pm • 2 0 • view
What a shitty effort at accessibility. This guy should be cited, fined, and sued.
aug 13, 2025, 5:43 pm • 9 0 • view
NY Times must have just watched 'American Beauty'
aug 13, 2025, 8:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Compact or Contract? 🙄
aug 13, 2025, 5:29 pm • 6 0 • view
What in the hell is going on with the New York Times? What a bizarre take.
aug 13, 2025, 5:44 pm • 30 0 • view
Like every news outlet in USA: the Orange King forced them to fire REAL journalists. All that is left are mediocre writers that can't even check AI slop.
aug 13, 2025, 6:44 pm • 13 1 • view
There's genocides happening, and you dedicated a f'in article to a bodega blob? Are you high ?
aug 14, 2025, 4:55 am • 2 0 • view
Don’t forget the beautiful Bodega cats.
aug 14, 2025, 12:28 am • 2 0 • view
Slow news day?
aug 14, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
“People say they can’t afford to make their businesses and other places accessible and welcoming to everybody because it’s too expensive,” Horn said. “Assuming they’re safe, bodega ramps prove there is always a way. They should be celebrated.”
aug 14, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
it should be up to the landlords to make their buildings compliant, not the businesses. lauding bodega owners for doing their best at something that should not be their responsibility is like applauding kids for raising money to pay for their classmates' "lunch debt"
aug 18, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
“while the sidewalks are public spaces, the bodega owners (or building owners) are responsible for keeping the sidewalks in front of their property in a safe condition, including clearing debris, snow, and ice, and repairing any cracks or hazards.”
aug 18, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
“access to the bodega from the sidewalk) is generally considered public property”
aug 18, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Slow news week?
aug 14, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Lovely. As stunning as a shoddy neighborhood covered in graffiti and discarded plastic garbage. Thanks NYTimes.
aug 13, 2025, 7:19 pm • 3 0 • view
How does that make a easy entry? Educate me ...
aug 13, 2025, 9:37 pm • 4 0 • view
🥴 Never paid attention...
aug 14, 2025, 4:41 am • 1 0 • view
The LAVA FLOW steps...
aug 13, 2025, 5:51 pm • 2 0 • view
These are not ADA approved. Maybe tell the story of how truly dangerous these things are.
aug 13, 2025, 6:50 pm • 3 0 • view
'Today we will discuss the odd history of the color blue'
aug 14, 2025, 10:00 am • 3 0 • view
Ok, now that's a reach. Bodega Cats are an institution, ad-hoc concrete pours not so much.
aug 14, 2025, 1:18 am • 3 0 • view
Hearted this, not because I like it, but because this is easily the most bizarre thing I've seen be advertised on the social media account of a major global newspaper.
aug 14, 2025, 10:43 am • 2 0 • view
The craftsmanship is impeccable! I just look at this in aweee! lol
aug 13, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
I am so old, I remember when you used to do actual journalism. You are a pathetic shell of your former self.
aug 14, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
Imagine paying $25 a month, or $300 a year of your hard earned income for quality journalism at the New York Times, and these are the articles that are produced.
aug 13, 2025, 8:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Whaaaatt the????
aug 13, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Do you all even know what real journalism is any more?
aug 13, 2025, 5:27 pm • 35 0 • view
And when you trip and fall DO NOT sue the Bodega owner, sue the city for not maintaining their sidewalks to meet the needs of business owners...
aug 13, 2025, 5:56 pm • 4 0 • view
The city doesn’t maintain the sidewalks. It requires each building to do it. That’s why the sidewalks look so shitty. It’s different concrete every 40 feet.
aug 14, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
I'd sue the city for letting businesses slide on ADA compliance
aug 13, 2025, 10:03 pm • 4 1 • view
I'm seriously thinking of filing suit again Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. Their idea of a handicapped/ADA bathroom was a bath tub with a raised bottom and a double row of "grab bars"...Tell me, how the hell a person with MS is supposed to get out of the shower? If they can shower...
aug 13, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Not into bodegos
aug 13, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Careful?! Not sure if ‘the sidewalk’ is anybody’s other than New York Cities. If someone trips over the blob who’s libel?
aug 14, 2025, 10:22 am • 1 0 • view
new yorkers not be living parodies of themselves challenge level: impossible
aug 13, 2025, 6:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey our president rapes children if you guys want to cover something that matters
aug 13, 2025, 9:26 pm • 14 2 • view
Is there anything important going on like a Nazi military takeover that you guys should maybe be covering?
aug 13, 2025, 9:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Parece mais uma homenagem à pata de elefante de Chernobyl. Ficou uma merda.
aug 13, 2025, 10:55 pm • 3 0 • view
And something to trip over if you are not paying attention.
aug 13, 2025, 5:20 pm • 13 0 • view
NYT is a daycare for Kapos If this is your job, drink b—-ch
aug 14, 2025, 4:52 am • 1 0 • view
These concrete blobs have surely enriched our culture.
aug 14, 2025, 1:16 am • 2 0 • view
Uhhmm - they just trying to avoid troll ADA lawsuits, people. They are not trying to affirm the civic compact. You know that's true because once you get inside you still have to avoid the unmarked open trap door to the basement storeroom.
aug 13, 2025, 5:48 pm • 15 0 • view
lmao
aug 13, 2025, 5:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Epstein Files Trump is in them.
aug 14, 2025, 12:53 am • 4 0 • view
"NYT can't *possibly* get anymore useless, can they...?" Welp...
aug 13, 2025, 5:42 pm • 18 0 • view
Seriously.... Trump is still a pedophile
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 7 0 • view
The Strange Beauty of New York’s Bodega Ramps f the nyt gift link
aug 14, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I would trip over that in a new york minute, lol
aug 13, 2025, 5:50 pm • 4 0 • view
I do wish a little paint would be applied to signal the counter change. there are those who have issues besides wheels
aug 14, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
sorry for the typo "counter change" should be "contour change"
aug 14, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't see how someone is going to be able to get through the door with 1) no automatic door opener 2) in a fucking wheelchair which requires both hands to use. WTF?
aug 13, 2025, 8:21 pm • 4 0 • view
That looks so uneven and I don't think they could get themselves inside without assistance. Then imagine leaving and slamming your ass down into your seat as you roll off it because it's so uneven.
aug 13, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
That photo immediately made me think of the Chernobyl elephant's foot.
aug 13, 2025, 5:23 pm • 35 0 • view
aug 13, 2025, 6:33 pm • 5 0 • view
Not oatmeal barf?
aug 13, 2025, 6:11 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 13, 2025, 5:47 pm • 5 0 • view
only in new york
aug 13, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
They should be twinned with the elephant’s foot at Chernobyl.
aug 13, 2025, 11:30 pm • 4 0 • view
This is hilariously stupid.
aug 13, 2025, 11:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Bodega blobs.
aug 13, 2025, 11:26 pm • 2 0 • view
GOOD JOB❗🤔
aug 14, 2025, 2:10 am • 4 0 • view
Thats a building code violation..and a lawsuit waiting to happen
aug 14, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
This was written by a concrete blob
aug 13, 2025, 7:08 pm • 8 0 • view
Hard hitting stories while the present takes over the DC police and says he’s going to keep it going in blue cities….
aug 13, 2025, 6:45 pm • 6 0 • view
Yeah, that’s lovely……
aug 13, 2025, 10:25 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s cool and all, but what about the Epstein files?
aug 13, 2025, 9:37 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 13, 2025, 9:12 pm • 7 0 • view
😂 I had no idea that was a ramp
aug 13, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
But seriously, Trump is on the Epstein list
aug 13, 2025, 6:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Looks much more like decline of the trades.
aug 14, 2025, 11:37 am • 1 0 • view
“I SAID HALF THE YEAST!!!!!”
aug 14, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
Oh FFS! Looks like albino shit. If the owners were Italian, the masonry would be beautifully executed.
aug 14, 2025, 11:29 am • 1 0 • view
What an excellent insight into the anthropological legacy of a city. More of this type of reporting please 🙏!
aug 13, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 0 • view
NYT tries to spin that as "affirming the civic compact" because if they didn't rich building owners might have to pay to make proper ramps. Can't have that, so must spin bullshit.
aug 14, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Imagine framing quarter-assed ADA compliance as a cultural quirk instead of a code issue that needs to be addressed
aug 13, 2025, 5:28 pm • 139 1 • view
It is good to first read the article if one is going to comment on it.
aug 13, 2025, 8:38 pm • 8 0 • view
I did, it’s not much of an article
aug 13, 2025, 8:41 pm • 8 0 • view
Sometimes, the people responding "aren't that much" either.
aug 14, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m too dumb to even parse who this is directed at what with the price of coffee these days, but this has some prairie Lincoln fire to it
aug 14, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Dan the man.
aug 14, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Are there no codes in NY or America for disabled access? Surely in such a litigious country (as opposed to the land of equality and opportunity) these would be a given?
aug 14, 2025, 8:28 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t know about NY specifically but in the US we have something called the Americans with Disabilities Act that’s supposed to prevent discrimination and ensure adequate access. In theory. The problem is enforcement really sucks and requires disabled people to complain before anything gets done.
aug 14, 2025, 8:55 am • 3 0 • view
Awful.
aug 14, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
Reminder that our democracy is corroding in front of our eyes. Don't tune out.
aug 14, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
Riveting. So glad trump’s transgressions ignored for this solid reporting. 🙄
aug 13, 2025, 6:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Anything but make disabled people's lives slightly easier
aug 14, 2025, 9:02 am • 3 0 • view
@bencollins.bsky.social, did you buy a different media outlet when the Infowars thing fell through?
aug 14, 2025, 11:36 am • 1 0 • view
I would trip on every single one, because I'm a klutz.
aug 14, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
German-Danish engineering abilitymagazine.com/lego-oma-ger...
aug 13, 2025, 8:22 pm • 4 0 • view
They say that no two are alike.
aug 13, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
RELEASE THE CLIENT LIST! RELEASE THE FILES!! FUCK PEDO TRUMP!!!
aug 13, 2025, 8:03 pm • 4 1 • view
The president for whom you shill is a pedophile. But this.
aug 13, 2025, 7:04 pm • 4 0 • view
"the strange beauty" and the pic is just the Elephant's Foot 😭
aug 13, 2025, 5:48 pm • 14 0 • view
Smart thinking, especially in heavy rain.
aug 14, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I could do better than that with like 4 bags of quikrete
aug 13, 2025, 5:52 pm • 5 0 • view
"affirm the civic compact" I like that
aug 13, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
No. That’s hideous
aug 14, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
The number of “people” using the word lawsuit, is just another reminder of how this cuntry got where it is. #trumpcult #haters #litigious #assholes
aug 13, 2025, 6:34 pm • 2 0 • view
No that’s just how they bury dead cats.
aug 13, 2025, 5:28 pm • 12 0 • view
Also, EPSTEIN FILES are being hidden by trump.
aug 13, 2025, 5:24 pm • 62 0 • view
Commenting to boost your reply Release the list
aug 13, 2025, 6:09 pm • 20 0 • view
What list? the #EpsteinList?
aug 14, 2025, 1:38 am • 11 0 • view
😂😂😂😂
aug 14, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Epstein Files Trump is in them.
aug 14, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
Next - that drive from JFK to Manhattan has the makings of a Mumbai slum, and, often the gateway to America for millions of tourists every year. But it’s quirky and artistic because: New York. 🤷🏽♀️
aug 14, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
Nice way to get your mind off America becoming a strong-man fascist state.
aug 13, 2025, 7:24 pm • 6 0 • view
Once again the comments are filled with people who don’t want to admit that a news platform will post about things outside of politics and it’s totally normal. If you want your Epstein news, there’s an entire section for him on their website
aug 13, 2025, 6:43 pm • 3 0 • view
So this is what you get with absurdly strict trade licensing laws....
aug 13, 2025, 6:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Looks like a fall risk to me‼️
aug 13, 2025, 6:02 pm • 4 0 • view
The Blob
aug 13, 2025, 5:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump is a pedo
aug 13, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Slow news day?
aug 14, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Needed to speak to more disability activists: those bodega ramps are usually not able to be used independently by manual wheelchair users. Would love it if the Times had wandered around with wheelchair users to see just how practical these ramps really are.
aug 13, 2025, 6:53 pm • 26 1 • view
You can tell just by glancing at the picture they show! Door would be impossible to open from a wheelchair and not auto and without a button to push, these "ramps" are inadequate and outdated
aug 13, 2025, 10:02 pm • 9 0 • view
It’s beyond sad that The NY Times keeps demeaning itself, yet it still can’t curry Trump’s favor. It sure would be a lot better if you accepted the truth and, therefore, posted the truth. You keep legitimizing a pedophile and it’s not even getting you anywhere.
aug 14, 2025, 1:25 am • 1 0 • view
Do you think that the amount of Brazilian sidewalk stairs correlates with those thick Brazilian butts we have all come to admire?
aug 14, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
ok let's not pretend that *those* are accesible either
aug 13, 2025, 6:00 pm • 16 0 • view
Except when tripping
aug 13, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
New Yorkers love to glorify mundane shit as special and quirky 🙄
aug 14, 2025, 11:44 am • 3 0 • view
Civic compact? What if you actually covered the rise of fascism over the last 45 years.
aug 13, 2025, 6:29 pm • 6 1 • view
Those look terrible for wheelchairs actually and door is not automatic and is far too narrow ... You New Yorkers really love to be proud of bad things ha
aug 13, 2025, 10:00 pm • 3 0 • view