Hispanic Society Museum & Library — Attraction in New York

This place needs to improve its accessibility. My husband is in a power wheelchair because his mobility below his neck is very limited. We went to the museum on a cold day - it was 26 degrees outside. We waited at the first accessibility lift, and I pressed the button multiple times. Waited. Nobody came. I walked into the building and asked for assistance to operate the accessibility lift. It took the staff 5 minutes to get ready and get to him. The first lift worked fine. However, there's another lift in front of the building entrance. My husband wasn't able to get over the snow to get on the lift, as the snowy path to the accessibility lift was not shoveled. We went back to the first lift and the lift wouldn't move. The staff tried to make the lift work. My husband was sitting in his wheelchair in 26 degrees for 30 minutes. People in a wheelchair don't have as good circulation as people who constantly move around. He was getting numb, that he couldn't even use his hands to control the joystick of his wheelchair. I was about to call 911, so someone can get him and his wheelchair out of that lift. The staff insisted on kept trying themselves. Thankfully the lift eventually started moving and my husband got out of it. His hands were numb for 30 minutes that he couldn't "drive" his wheelchair by himself.

The staff told us this accessibility gets stuck often on rainy and snowy days. I hope they can solve this problem soon, so another person in a wheelchair won't need to be stranded on that lift in a 26 degrees weather...

A year ago, I was in the upper west side of Manhatten attending a funeral. After the burial, I realized the Hispanic Society Museum &Library was just two blocks away and visible from where the funeral was. I had been to the Museum about 10 years ago prompted by a book I had read. So this day I took advantage of where I was and decided to visit the museum again. The museum building is impressive it looks like a place where serious artifacts of history are stored. The entrance to the Museum sits in a courtyard that it shares with Boriqua College; a private 4 year Liberal arts College. The courtyard has some life size statues which are worth taking a look at. The entrance to the museum is from the courtyard. There are lots of great paintings and sculptures housed in the museum. I myself can spend only 2 hours at a time at any museum I visit. I get absorbed in looking at the paintings and the sculptures and reading about the artist and so my mind gets tired after 2 hours. My 2 hour time limit says nothing about the wonders housed in a museum; it says a lot about my own stamina. The entrance to the museum was free when I went. The paintinga and sculptures go as far back as the 16th century and come all the way to 20th century. There are works by El Greco and works by Picasso and other great artist. I plan to visit the...

The architecture is so exquisite and well done. What was really just a pleasure to see were the different inscriptions that honor the Spanish speaking world; people tend to just throw negative comments and incorrect judgements about the Spanish with natives with Africans etc when in actuality this building is the tribute to expressing how the encounter so happens to also bring them together thru an important treasure, a commodity to which isn’t seen much in the Anglo American society, that is the importance of educating all people in Spanish which gives them the opportunity to be able to find a common ground and support system in whichever part of the world they may be in. One thing for certain is that a Dominican would be thrilled to find a Ecuadorean in the middle of a ski resort in Switzerland and become friends. You really won’t find that “bromear” amongst the ones who suppress peoples because they are still colonies. This is by far the best place to make me fall in love with a part of New York. Now that’s what...