Daily News | The displaced community of Carousel House | Morning Newsletter
Back in January, at a wheelchair basketball tournament, I met some people who had used Carousel House and were upset that it had been shuttered. More recently, that frustration seemed to be flaring up again, and with the midterms over, I decided to start doing interviews.
Carousel House was a big deal back in 1987, a city-funded rec center in West Philly specifically for people with disabilities, in a city with a. It offered a huge range of activities to hundreds of people, some of whom started going as children and are now middle-aged. It closed in 2020 due to the pandemic, then permanently last year.
But a lot has changed since the late 1980s. Some city officials and disability activists see it as a symbol of segregation and want all rec centers to be accessible and inclusive to all residents. But several Carousel House families liked having a place reserved mostly for people with disabilities. It’s become a polarizing topic.
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