Rahkiya Rawlins, 36, legally blind, manages to live an independent life, with help from her sister and the Neediest Cases Fund.

George Kramer, 71, at Kramer’s Hardware in Flatbush, where he knows everything about everything, including the keys.George Kramer, the “Rain Man” of Brooklyn, has thrived in a hole-in-the-wall hardware store for nearly 60 years.

The night after a deadly stabbing in a homeless shelter for the disabled, a group of residents gathered in the same dining room where fighting words had bounced off the lemon yellow walls.

Leslie Jackson’s injuries left her in financial peril. While she waits for her luck to turn, the Neediest Cases Fund has helped keep her afloat.

A program in North Jersey is giving children in wheelchairs a new physical activity to call their own and, their parents say, confidence.

While relatives were happy that a court ruling may force New York to find less-restrictive homes for thousands of mentally ill residents, many feared that life on the outside might prove difficult.

Despite changes that were intended to address abuses, almost all career employees at the railroad get the benefits if they apply for them, a federal review has found.

A federal class-action lawsuit accuses the city’s public housing agency of failing to maintain its building’s elevators, in violation of disability and human rights law.

A disabled reporter whose tape recorder began playing as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spoke could not shut off the machine fast enough to satisfy Mr. Bloomberg.

A disability-rights advocate and journalist with a tape recorder that went off at the wrong time drew the mayor’s ire.