Adapt Ability is always working on new programs and services to improve the mobility in our community and hopefully in our country.
Monthly News
September 2022
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with MSG. Thank you for the opportunity to share my culture and family.
August 2022
AdaptAbility was invited and present to be part of the celebration of the 32nd Anniversary of the ADA with Governor Kathy Hochul.
July 2022
AdaptAbility partner-up this Summer with PS 213. Students had the opportunity to used our adaptive bicycles for their time on Summer Classes at PS 213.
Thanks to Mrs. Edessa Inting, DPT
Physical Therapist
PS@213
July 2022
A new experience for Adapt Ability working with the masters at Double Take Design, Josh and Eden.
Creating a magical cycling experience for kids and adults at CAMP, a family experience, at 10 Columbus Circle Suite 202 NY NY.
Need an idea for a project…Call the masters:
June 2022
Adapt Ability had the honored to host an incredible author Sylvia Longmire and her family.
Spin the Globe creator Sylvia Longmire is a service-disabled veteran, mother, author, consultant, entrepreneur, world traveler, and the reigning Ms.Wheelchair USA 2016. She traveled extensively from an early age and during her time as an Air Force officer and Special Agent.
More information about Sylvia and Spin the Globe at:
Thank you to my wonderful friend Cindy and Andrew, from Turnstile Tours.
Turnstile’s mission is to advance public knowledge about the meaning of place, foster connections and understanding between people of diverse backgrounds, and inspire and reflect a culture of community participation through providing welcoming, well-researched, inclusive, and engaging experiences and resources to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.
May 2022
Adapt Ability is completely excited to ship our AdaptAbility Custom Adaptive Bike to Washington State.
Libni is a wonderful young girl that always wanted to ride a bicycle, now she will have the opportunity to enjoy the freedom of it.
Thanks to all the donors that help her dream come true.
Monthly News
April 2022
The Discretionary Funding PB NYC39.
Congratulations to all Winners…
March 2022
Thank you Knicks and Squarespace for the opportunity to enjoy a great game with old and new friends.
Thank you to everyone that was involved in this amazing opportunity.
March 2022
The winners, announced publicly at last Friday night’s New York Knicks Game, each receive a $30,000 grant, a one-year subscription for Squarespace, use of select Squarespace marketing inventory, including an annual Pro subscription, a feature segment on MSG Networks, and more.
Congratulations to:
With Cover, Legally Blk Fund and Harlem Pilates
February 2022
Adapt Ability excited to partner up with Imagine Academy for Autism, located in Brooklyn.
Adapt Ability is providing adaptive bicycles for the children at the school for them to get therapy and to obtain and improve mobility.
January 2022
Adapt Ability changing lives one adaptive bicycle at a time.
Meet Laurie, young, beautiful and smart girl riding a bicycle for the first time.
December 2021
Meet Susan. Susan is our fourth employee at Adapt Ability, thanks to AHRC NYC.
Give a job opportunity to individuals with disabilities, AHRC NYC can help you find the perfect fit for your business.
November 2021
Meet Zac. Zac is our third employee at Adapt Ability, thanks to AHRC NYC.
Give a job opportunity to individuals with disabilities, AHRC NYC can help you find the perfect fit for your business.
October 2021
Meet Sean and his coach Seth. Sean is our second employee at Adapt Ability, thanks to JobPath NYC.
Give a job opportunity to individuals with disabilities, JobPath NYC can help you find the perfect fit for your business.
September 2021
Meet Abdel and his coach Alla. Abdel is our first employee at Adapt Ability, thanks to AHRC NYC.
Give a job opportunity to individuals with disabilities, AHRC NYC can help you find the perfect fit for your business.
August 2021
Thanks to the QBP Women Scholarship Grant, I had the opportunity to travel to Colorado to the Barnett Bicycle Institute.
The experience and knowledge obtained at the institute was out of this world. Congratulations Mr. Barnett you are a genius. Thank You.
The opportunity to meet five incredible, smart and awe-inspiring ladies that believe in cycling as much as I do, (was the icing on the cake) and confirms that cycling can and will change the lives of anyone that decides to take a spin.
Thank You for the experience QBP.
July 2021
Adapt Ability and Behind Bars In Brooklyn are customizing parts and adapters for adaptive bicycles.
We are revolutionizing the way adaptive bicycles are made.
Everyone at Adapt Ability is extremely happy to be offering mobility to children with special needs and adults with disabilities.
Unity in the community…
Unity in the Bicycle community…
June 2021
Adapt Ability had the opportunity to be selected by Peter Stuyvesant Little League to be part of their Charity Softball Game.
PETER STUYVESANT LITTLE LEAGUE
Peter Stuyvesant Little League (PSLL), founded in 1956 in partnership with Con Edison and more recently Stuytown Property Services, serves more than 800 baseball and softball playing children from Manhattan’s east side on its Con Edison Ballfields and McGinn Field/Murphy’s Brother’s Park on Avenue C, adjacent to Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
A bedrock of family and community in New York City, PSLL offers not only baseball and softball instruction to boys and girls each season, but also such intangibles as sportsmanship, teamwork, courage and the importance of fitness. PSLL is a fully volunteer, non-profit organization chartered by Little League International, and runs winter, spring, challenger and summer baseball programs for children of all abilities ages four through sixteen.
More information about PSLL:
May 2021
Adapt Ability’s goal has always been to serve the disability community.
Great News!
“We adapt” adapters have been approved.
What it means:
More custom adaptive bicycles for children with special needs and adults with disabilities…
May 2021
Alise Mona Loebelsohn amazing Contemporary Artist that donated her time to create a mural in our studio.
Her mural includes all types of bicycles parts hidden in art.
Come and have fun with us, find those parts…
Link to nyartistcircle.com:
April 2021
Great things are happening in April.
Two amazing kids donating their bicycles for us to refurbish them and curious about how we customize adaptive bicycles .
We had the donor to interview Mark Morris Dance Group and learn about all the programs that they offer to the community.
We took extra time to create more “We Adapt” adapters for more adaptive bicycles. Exciting!!!!
March 2021
Adapt Ability’s had the opportunity to invite the RoboRaptors to our Podcast to learn about their invention. Disability Humility episode 9 is about how far we can hope to go with our creativity, inventions and goals. RoboRaptors is a group of friends, students and young kids working on a project that can change the lives of the blind community. Don't miss anything from this episode, this group of friends from the age of 12 to 14 are sharp, smart and extraordinary. Hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we did recording it.
Thank you RoboRaptors...
Link to this episode:
February 2021
Adapt Ability had the honor to invite Michel Gentile to our Podcast. Our 3rd episode will bring a tune or a melody into our lives. Michel Gentile is a performing musician, music teacher, entrepreneur, cyclist, soccer player, son, husband and a father. The podcast's episode covers Michel's love and passion for music and how he deliveries it to children with special needs. An episode that you don't want to miss.
Thank you Michel for what you do and how you share it with children...
Link to our amazing episode:
January 2021
Adapt Ability had the opportunity to create a rise platform pedal for a family. The family uses a bicycle called Buddy Bicycles. The Buddy bicycle was too big for their younger daughter Isadora. Isadora is one of our AdaptAbility Stars, we are making an adaptive bicycle for her. Stay tuned and do not forget to donate.
December 2020
Adapt Ability’s goal has always been to serve the disability community. Due to the times we live in, the best way to be together and to be informed about what is going on in the world is through the Internet. This is one of the reasons we have decided to join the Podcast Community, to keep you up-to-date and to share important information. So on December 20th, Adapt Ability launched their first episode of the new podcast called “Disability Humility''. You must be thinking: “Why Disability Humility?” The words “Disability Humility” means the act of learning about experiences, histories and politics of disability, recognizing that one’s knowledge and understanding of disability will always be partial, and that one should act in light of that fact. All the necessary information to be aware and conscious of the challenges the disability community goes through will be discussed on our podcast.
Christmas 2020
Adapt Ability’s first Bicycle Christmas Drive was extremely successful. We decided to partner up with Our People Winter Market and Humble Heroes that helped us distribute the bicycles. Thank you for all of the donations and to our partners.
“Thanks again so much for connecting with us. The bikes were a HUGE hit.” -Our People Winter Market
Here was a message from one of our moms:
“Thank you so much for the Spider-Man bike to all, my son was very excited & lit up with joy at the sight of it! This has been an amazing time & made especially wonderful, because of you all. Thanks again & happy holidays, may you all have a blessed night.️️🤩”
November 2020
Adapt Ability’s First Bicycle Christmas Drive.
It all begins with an idea. How can we change the end of 2020? How can we help families in need of Christmas present?
We are always thinking about the environment so, by donating your used or unused bicycle we can make a huge difference this Christmas.
If you can’t donate your used or unused bicycles but still want to help, we are accepting helmets, elbow and knee pads for children. Thank you so much and Happy Holidays.
October 2020
Turn the Key, our invitation to tour our new location. Reschedule due to COVID-19 hot spots. Our new location is located in Sunset Park, an orange area within New York City’s new COVID cluster zone.
September 2020
After a month of submitting paperwork and other legal documents, we can finally say we have a new home. Adapt Ability new location will be revealed in October 2020.
August 2020
After months of looking for a location, we found the perfect one for our organization. Now it is time to complete the application and submit paperwork.
July 2020
Due to COVID-19 our program is on hold. We used this time to create new programs and services for the community. At this point we are looking for a new location. Stay tuned to learn about our new location.
June 2020
Our Rental Program is almost ready to launch. Waiting for the city of NY to re-open. We are anxious to start. We know how important mobility is for everyone.
May 2020
For months, we have learned how to wash our hands correctly and to be patient. COVID-19 has changed our lives. Children with special needs and adults with disabilities are not getting their therapy and exercises, they will lose the agility gained.
April 2020
Lockdown in New York means a lot of children with special needs will not be getting their therapy or exercise this month. Our goal, improving mobility, is being stopped by COVID-19. Creativity will not help us this time, the immune system in children with special needs cannot be compromised. All that we can do is pray, wash our hands, practice social distancing and wait.
March 2020
Excited to come back after an amazing New York to California tour. Ready to start our campaigns and promotions of our program and services and everything has been crushed by COVID-19. Americans are losing the battle with COVID-19. Other countries are in the same the situation. Our lives have been stopped.
February 2020
Our Journey will start on February 24, 2020. Traveling cross-country to California, performing five adaptive bicycle fittings for children with special needs in five different states and five different public schools. Maryland, Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arizona are the five states that we will be visiting for bicycle fittings and assessments.
Adapt Ability News Letter
The Adapt Ability News Letter will provide information and updates on our new services and programs. It will also alert you on any Adapt Ability related event, for example, you will receive invitations for our future fund raising events.
(Starting September 2020)
Press
THE MAKE IT AWARDS
For the fifth year, Squarespace is excited to host the Squarespace x New York Knicks annual Make It Awards in support of local entrepreneurs and small businesses who embody the passion and drive of New York.
Anthony Casalena started Squarespace in 2003 with a $30K loan to purchase the company’s first servers. We now want to give back to New York City by helping 4 emerging businesses get ahead with a $30K grant each. Madison Square Garden, in partnership with Squarespace, is looking for the best and brightest to enter to win a grant for their business.Make it stand out.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
In 2022 Adapt Ability was honored with the Make it Award.
Press
Hope Week
Diego
Bike shop owner brightens day for Brooklyn teen with special needs
‘A Beautiful Surprise’: Teen With Special Needs Gets Gift Of Custom Bicycle
Otis
9-year-old boy with special needs gets custom-made bike thanks to Brooklyn shop
Una latina que fabrica bicicletas para niños con capacidades diferentes
George
New York Times
A Bike for Every Kid
Ready to Roll? A Work in Progress Report
Podcast
Adaptability: Inclusion and accessibility in recreation activities
IOBY
Adapt Ability Gallery
Sharing who we are, who we are becoming and who we want to be…
