Join us to complete the ramp project!

Three of our ramps have been delivered! 
Join us to complete the rest at 10am on 5/25 at Ditmars Playground. (Between Ditmars Blvd and 23rd Ave. on Steinway Street.)

Community Paint Day Announced!

We are very sorry for this announcement: Due to the heavy rain, we moved the Community Paint Day to Saturday May 25th at 10am. 

Join us to paint our ramps on April 20th at 10am at Ditmars Playground!  We would love your help in making make our neighborhood more accessible and inclusive. 

Rain date will be 4/21 at 10am. 

Look for our ramps at participating businesses around the neighborhood soon!

*Our Community Ramp Project, in partnership with
the StopGap Foundation and the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School, is funded by Citizens Committee for New York City, with donations from Home Depot, LeNoble Lumber, and Behr Paints. We aim to alleviate physical barriers caused by single stepped storefronts in Astoria/LIC by providing participating businesses with a FREE colorful and deployable access ramp to eliminate barriers and create inclusive spaces we can all live, work, and play in. 

Ramps were fabricated!

Ramps were fabricated by students and the teacher of the Mather Arts and Craftsmanship High School! 

Thanks for these great achevment! 

We were waiting for transporting these fabulous ramps from the wood workshop of the High School to Astoria.

Yuki, one of great supporter of the project, helped us for transporting.

At the wood workshop

 The teacher and volunteer students of Mather Building Arts and Craftmanship High School were working on making wood ramps! 
We visited their wood workshop and cheered them. 
They worked really hard! 
Thank you so much!

Special Delivery: Ramp-Making Supplies

We've delivered the supplies to the wood workshop at Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School, whose students will be creating the ramps as a part of their after-school woodworking program.

We bought ropes, glue, screws and cushions and brought them to the wood workshop. 

Stay tuned to see the project continue to move forward!

Ramp Measuring Day

This winter, Mr. Singler and his students from Mather Arts & Craftsmanship High School in Manhattan visited Astoria and Long Island City. 

These students have participated in our ramp project by working on the blueprints and creation of the ramps as a part of their after school/ community service woodworking program. 

They traveled to each of the nine establishments that will receive ramps, measured the storefront steps, and recorded them. This is a difficult task given the old and uneven nature of many of our city's storefronts.

We are so grateful for their time and effort! Our project wouldn't be completed without their community service and help. 

Photo by Yukiyo Nagata

We received a generous donation!

Thanks to @BehrPaint and @HomeDepot for generously donating paint to our Ramp Project NYC, a project in partnership with @StopGapRamp.

Our community ramp project is funded by a Neighborhood Grant from @CitizensNYC to increase #access in western Queens.  

We were thrilled to pick the paints up today!

 Photo by Yukiyo Nagata