CARELESS AND DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR AT THIS PARIS LEGEND CAUSED ME TO FLEE WHEN THE SHOW WAS JUST BEGINNING

I HAVE BEEN TO HUNDREDS OF JAZZ CLUBS AND CONCERT VENUES – THIS IS THE FIRST THAT REWARDED MY ADMISSION PAYMENT BY THREATENING MY LIFE

Caveau de la Huchette.

Shame on you for endangering my life and hundreds of others.

You had dozens of people sitting on the stairs.

There was no escape.

I have visited more than 500 international venues and never seen something that dangerous.

I HAVE BEEN TO HUNDREDS OF JAZZ CLUBS AND CONCERT VENUES

CARELESS AND DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR AT THIS PARIS LEGEND CAUSED ME TO FLEE WHEN THE SHOW WAS JUST BEGINNING

The far over safe capacity crowd swelled by almost double                                                              AFTER! this picture of overcrowding was taken.

Caveau de la Huchette is a disaster waiting to happen.

I left 4 songs into 9-7-26 show because it was a fire trap.

The club exceeded capacity to point where both stairways were impossible to use.

Apparently no one in Paris cares about hundreds burning to death in a fire or getting trampled in a panic.

I directly contacted the Paris mayor, office for the 5^th Arrondissement and city fire department.

Not one followed up with an inspection or addressing my sincere concerns.

MAMDANI WILL REBUILD THE BQE TO LAST UNTIL 2080

DESPITE CALLS TO TEAR IT DOWN

All I can think of is tens of thousands of people with disabilities virtually trapped because of terrible sidewalks, crosswalks, curbramps in NYC.

I thought Mamdani is the mayor of the marginalized. 

This action makes him more like the lobbyist for the more than trillion dollar per year auto industry.

$4 billion in pedestrian/wheelchair mobility is game changing. 

Spent on an expressway = failure.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/24/mamdani-bqe-plan-august-2026?utm_source=streetsblog-nyc.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-triple-cantilever-is-here-to-stay

FAULTY CURB RAMPS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE

THEY ARE ESSENTIAL TO INCLUSIVE MOBILITY WITH DIGNITY

Too much patchwork, narrow & dangerous curb ramp in one of the busiest places in Manhattan.

E. Union Square & E. 16 St. — next to the Union Square subway station, the 4th busiest in all of New York.

Mayor Mamdani must make wheelchair access a priority.

ALL MOBILITY DEVICES ARE COOL

WHEELCHAIRS = FREEDOM, NOT LIMITATION

Industrial Designer Kazuo Kawasaki's goal was to create a wheelchair that felt as good, and looked as cool, as the newest pair of sneakers.

The Carna, on display at MOMA, is colorful & has high–tech style.

Since it had to be light and easy to carry, an improvement over most collapsible wheelchairs, Kawasaki used a titanium frame, with aluminum honeycomb–core wheels and rubber seat and tires.

DESIGNING TO AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT COMPLIANCE IS THE FLOOR

NOT THE CEILING. INCLUSIVE DESIGN IS BEAUTIFUL AND DURABLE

Wheelchair access and design that accommodates all disabilities is doomed when a city leader in charge of facilities "boasts" that something has minimum ADA compliance.

How come everything else is made state of the art, but people with disabilities get the bare minimum?

Ask your mayor, commissioner, director of essential departments -- transit, parks, public works, planning, building -- why July 26 is significant.

Not 5% will know it's the ADA's anniversary.

This is why the built environment is NOT accessible. 

It is why Universal Design is not part of the though process of planning, design and building.