Even accounting for how car-centric US cities are, I agree with that commenter. Yeah it may be hard to get downtown from outlying neighborhoods without a car, but sidewalks have ramps and building have access. Hell, the parking lots have designated parking spaces. Not true at all in most European cities

Edit: I guess it’s worth a little more nuance than just limping all European cities in the same category. The wealthier northern cities have definitely caught up a bit (though they all still have buildings that are completely inaccessible). The real problems are the southern cities like Rome, Madrid, Athens, Lisbon etc.

NYC is so old it’s essentially a European city since it was built pre-car and pre-caring about the disabled. In most American cities less than 300 years old you’ll see ada ramps, lifts, doors, accessible sidewalk crossings, etc.

Yes America is too car centric, 100% agree on that but we’re doing leaps and bounds better on disability access than Europe. Also, we have handicap parking spots so lifts have room to move disabled in/out of cars with plenty of room