First Time Riding the NYC Subway with a Disability | Astoria to Times Square

[@dannettejackson202]

The fact that he is taking a bad situation and turning into something good for those of us who are living with some sort of disability is commendable Kenneth! 😮😊

[@darthdawgz74gd]

Not a disability it's an injury

[@ActionKid]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

[@helengigante4038]

This subway ride was very informative…will really help those thinking of traveling to NYC who have whatever kind of mobility issue… keep pointing out all these challenges and how you work around them…great job!

[@ActionKid]

Thanks, it was challenging to use the subway with reduced mobility but I made it work

[@helengigante4038]

@@ActionKid 🌷

[@margd77]

Hey, AK! Your dad is very humble. Tell him we always want to hear what he has to say. Thanks for showing us the challenges of riding the subway with a knee scooter.

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome, glad you liked the video!

[@donnamiller3580]

Your dad is so sweet. He goes with you to be sure you are okay. Be careful out there!!

[@rebeccatelgenhoff8223]

KEN, your father has great wisdom when he walks and talks to you as your rolling along. He's a wealth of knowledge. Love hearing his stories, while you walk along the streets of New York City.😀

[@michaelchin3550]

The "knowledge" is from 69 years being on this planet. Must have accumulated some at least. LOL.

[@ActionKid]

Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@ziarwright8115]

Hey actionkid I hope you foot is better now

[@jackiebanos4626]

@@rebeccatelgenhoff8223 i agree with you what wisdom and knowledge he has from the city I hope he considers using his father for the future

[@rebeccatelgenhoff8223]

@@michaelchin3550 😊

[@cairnmom3228]

You're bringing a lot of awareness to mobility issues. Good job! Tell Dad we love hearing from him! He's a wealth of knowledge and a treasure.

[@ActionKid]

Thanks, I'm sure he appreciates it!

[@readthebook55]

I appreciate all of your post-injury videos. Learning a lot.

[@ActionKid]

Thank you so much!

[@dave_di]

1:23 ActionKid was blessed with a good dad!

[@jarihult]

Your dad’s company is great and it’s nice to hear your conversations😎It’s great there’s a elevators at the subway stations which helps disabled people to move around👍Thank you for sharing this subway ride A K🙂👍!!!

[@ActionKid]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

[@rogertemple7193]

Great to see you back out on the streets of New York with your knee scooter and your dad helping you, take care and keep getting better AK.👍🇺🇲

[@ActionKid]

Thank you so much!

[@BagelsAndWalks]

Thanks for doing this AK. Everyone deserves a safe, easy, and reliable way to move around regardless of their circumstances

[@DroOnTheGO]

So much to see on a NYC train ride, dude feasting, mariachi band and animals! NYC is a magical place.

[@ActionKid]

That's for sure!

[@steves1749]

Glade your up and about, even though it’s with assistance. I hade a knee scooter in 2015. Great dad helping you

[@dream.machine]

Thanks for showing this AK! This is so useful for those who are new to the city who may have injuries or disabilities and need to use the Subway. Thanks ActionKid and also ActionDad 😎 👍🏽

[@ActionKid]

Much appreciated, thanks for watching!

[@BlazingTrails14]

Hello AK, I hope you're doing well. I'm sure you'll be so glad to be able to walk around without any restrictions. You've dealt with it very well. Proud of you for not just sitting back until your foot heals. Have a great evening.

[@ActionKid]

Thank you for the support!

[@RUFUSREX]

I have a disability and to me your video was extremely informative

[@ActionKid]

Thanks!

[@janem34]

Good job AK, you are performing a valuable service in addressing and illustrating accesibility issues in NYC...hang in there!

[@Cmickey46]

Thank you for sharing some of the situations that disabled people face in the city.

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome!

[@herwaldmckay5789]

Nuff blessings to you dad.

[@geetamoonesar249]

Hey Ken.. thank you for another wonderful vlog. Please let your dad know we enjoy hearing his commentary. He's adding a different dynamic to the channel.

[@pangeria12]

I just had knee replacement and I feel yah my disability using my scooter is great and I miss riding now as i can’t even walk more than 50 ft with help of an aide pushing a walker right now. Can’t wait till get back in action with no pain walking normal again. Thanks for this video.

[@ActionKid]

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you get well soon!

[@tanyamayes3773]

Aww, tell your dad we love hearing his voice

[@MarleeDecember105]

I have definitely been enjoying your dad's appearance in your walking videos.

[@beachbum8888]

Love actiondad

[@bestestimesreborn]

I enjoy hearing your dad talk on videos. Insite into new York when he was younger.

[@Cindymindy231]

I love your videos with your dad. He is a loving and support dad. I love the conversations, too. Great video. 😊

[@inwoodliver]

Dad is very important. Thanks

[@Javy_Valen_Tain]

Hope you fully recover AK!

[@dream.machine]

Yes 💯 🙏

[@ellisc.foleyjr9778]

The one thing that I picked up on was you're Dad Ken, its so great that he is taking the time to go with you on you're adventures out and about in the city. at home in Astoria and now even down to Times Square. and I heard a lot of his comments and he does indeed have a lot to say and its a welcome thing!. Thank you ! Ken's Dad! you're Cool!.and thanks Ken for sharing. and enlightening this old man. God speed. ECF

[@dissidentfairy4264]

AK said: "My dad isn't wearing a mic." Your dad said: "Nobody wants to hear from me anyway." I say, Yes we do! I lived in NYC for 5 years and I never saw a train ride quiet like that. The Goldendoodle dog was gorgeous! The people looked more normal and less ominous. I could swear it was a slightly younger version of Mark Zuckerberg devouring a sandwich across from you to your left. lol The guy across from you seemed a little uncomfortable regarding the camera at first but he was a good sport about it:-)

[@JM-vh7oc]

Thanks for doing this one -- important to show the obstacles that handicapped people face.

[@henrysantos121]

This was a wonderful video to watch. Very well done ✅

[@ouebe8838]

Thank you AK for this video with your dad. It's important to showing what it's like to travel in the city for people with disabilities. These are things that we don't usually pay much attention to. And tell your dad he certainly has a lot to teach us and that his memories are always great to hear! Thank you both.

[@lisaholly3846]

Really loved this video. So much information. You really don’t understand how difficult navigating through life can be if you have a disability. Love your dad! He’s a gem!

[@rexhua4833]

Thanks for sharing your commute.

[@antoniobranch]

The last time I was on the MTA subway was in 1982, when they were using tokens. I used to stand between the subway cars, too.

[@henrysantos121]

Yes me too. Back in the day

[@lisawhite8679]

Showing off his muscles Nice 😊

[@robmarais]

Thanks Kenneth for showing how to use public transit with a mobility impairment. My local T stop (Symphony) in Boston is not accessible, which sucks. It’s all stairs and I can’t use ‘em, so I gotta hike to Mass Ave on the Orange Line or to Northeastern on the Green Line E branch 😪

[@TravelAdventuresTV]

Good to see you out & about & able to show others with the same problem or worst how to get around the city but be careful we want you to fully recover great video as always if I bump into you I surely will be glad to help Have a great week

[@richardlau2447]

NY weather is nice today.

[@HengMiao]

12:53 Got to pay for the fare. 😁 17:01, 17:25 Your dad flexed. 💪😂 38:12 Oh my, unpleasant smells inside the elevator. 🤢 39:31 - 39:44 Beeeep, but I'll take this over the Boston's MBTA Orange Line ICU sound effects. 😆 This is an informative subway video for people with short and long term disabilities. Hopefully, the city will improve on accessibility at more subway stations. It can also be challenging navigating through narrow platforms when it's busy, but you've managed and keep up the good work. 👍 Thank you for sharing this informative video along with your dad, AK! 🤗

[@thomasmccarty09]

Your father is awesome I miss my Dad 😢

[@Edward-jn5pl]

Been there, done that. Got a whole new perspective from NY from a wheel chair. Take care of yourself and heal.

[@christinenapoli5106]

You’re a trooper & have a good dad

[@cory5926]

Hope you're thankful for your dad

[@Mackandal-]

Much Props to your Pops!

[@MaryAntonia-tc9rv]

Action Dad don't feel like nobody wants to hear you. I'm using your advice to use epsom salts for my own tired feet. Please keep your Dad in some of the videos after you get better as I truly love hearing from you both ❤❤

[@lisawhite8679]

The guy across you he’s not sure if you’re recording or not lol 😂 he got some hairy legs 😂😂😂

[@CharleyS10223]

Nice Actionkid. Thanks for showing us how you ride the subway in an injured left leg and ride the elevator. One time I tried to find the elevators at 74th St., Jackson Heights subway stop and I couldn’t find it.

[@CoolTransit]

Action Dad needs a microphone every time he joins you.

[@kevinbrewis6014]

I sat exactly where that man is sitting on the 15th of June 1994, I had a blonde wig on, the girl who was sitting next to me kept staring at me until it was her stop so I pulled it off and said, yes it's a wig!! she had a good laugh at me me before leaving the train, ha ha

[@ActionKid]

[@freddypflugbeil6]

Wow Action kid what a exciting show that was and your dad is cool looking man it's a complete different world in the city it's fascinating. Thanks for the show Action kid

[@kathleenturney4240]

Hello-ooo! I am glad that your Dad is with you. And yes, we would like hearing from him, too. You should bring hand wipes.

[@rocknrollermann]

Dad has movie star looks. Cool boots. Cool vibe. I wouldn't mess w him. Nice guns.

[@thomasmccarty09]

N he's in great shape

[@valeriehm1961]

So glad to see you at Time Square! Dad should not think we do not want to hear him lol, he is an interesting guy! The scooters I do however know were before 2018, my daughter used one in 2014 for moving around in High school she graduated in 2016.

[@soundshaper]

Hey, AK, glad you're getting around all right. Good idea to show how the MTA's ADA accommodations are limited in NYC, but guess it's better than none. Making lemonade out of lemons, hope you get healed up soon. In other news, the Man From Astoria song is written, thanks to your vids inspiring me, the story used to be about an an outlaw living with his grandpa and his girlfriend in Astoria, instead now it's about a guy (based on you) going all over NYC with your Segway all charged up and your GoPro on. In recording now, it's a rock genre with a hiphop beat. I grew up in the 70s so I'm kinda old school, but it'll be pretty fresh, no one imitates my style of rock.

[@michaels908]

Is the L- train your walking past the same one used in The French Connection I. If not, which one was used for that chase scene?

[@adamschanel2]

A littke word of advice: Use the word injury in the title, not disability.

[@jeannine7002]

Checkout “prophesy odssey” with Doug Batchelor!

[@midnightRider8428]

What’s in a New Yorkers backpack?? Lol

[@sticklerforchange]

Your Dad is so funny, love those guns. Once you are better, you may have to hook up with your Dad once in a while for a sub-channel.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I like how they have the same seats they’ve had since the 70s. Hehe not making fun of it! I actually do like it and think it’s cool and retro! :)

[@Picasso_Picante92]

You dad would kick my ass in a New York Minute. What was (is) his line of work?

[@vorca8442]

Do any subway stations have any escalators? Here in Toronto I think almost all have escalators and most have elevators. Subway looks quite clean in New York. . I always have a vision of the NYC subways like they were in the 80s. They looked crazy back then.

[@lisawhite8679]

I like your dad style

[@-Osiris-]

Shout out to ActionDad

[@cak813]

The NYC subway system is woefully deficient in accessible stations. And unfortunately, many of the elevators turn into urinals. Many of the stations in the system are so old that that there can’t be escalators from the street level. And even stations that have escalators, if they’re out of order, they can be out of order for days. I can remember the escalators at 63rd and Lex were often out of order (and that was a deep station!!) and also the escalators at the 3rd Avenue end of the R train stop at Lex and 59th.

[@carlosleon1501]

Ak your dad say things that are important today .please keep talking some people need to mine there own business.😅😮😢

[@KhondakarSadi]

4:39 there's my house in the left in newton Avenue

[@lucinachavez4771]

A.K., you have documented a real-life account of why Congestion Pricing was an ardent issue concerning N.Y.C.'s subway system. Subway elevators were installed in response to the A.D.A., a civil rights law signed in 1990 by G.W.B. (Bush 1). You (and Dad) have proven that 34 years later, N.Y.C. continues to fail a swath of its population who contribute significantly, including going as far as being Governor when David Paterson (visually impaired) served NY 2008-2010. You are an "accidental" hero in my book!

[@psychonautO8743]

15:41 this is like the first time you were riding a W train on this channel.

[@babyshark5647]

At least the subway is cool

[@ManongdoMJ]

action kid, what happened to your leg? i pray for your recovery🙏

[@isaacdeleon139]

Did you broke your leg or something? I hope you feel better

[@UpperMiddleClassDemocrat]

How did you get injured? I haven't watched your channel since you were in Miami.

[@vedra_queen5314]

Scooter injury. He was riding and hit a pothole, broke his foot in two places. I believe he made a short video compilation of his falls and it’s included at the end of the video.

[@axivisual9746]

❤

[@albertbruhn931]

Love your story line thus far so far & know you'll keep it refreshingly UPGRADED/UPDATED 2!🤩

[@Dalenumba3]

I am disabled because of my ptsd. I know what you meant. Don’t let these negative nancys get to you bro. You are doing a good thing showing how accessible the subways actually are for others.

[@back2the80s]

He isn’t disabled dude. Just a broke bone that needs to heal. Tired of clickbait titles

[@shahenshahen425]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@FalcomScott312]

Love watching your videos, mate & take it easy when travelling in NYC Action Kid! 😎👍

[@МаринаПархимович-м1и]

🥰👍🏻

[@Makedonac007]

🌤 🏢The New York State 🦘 Happy Friday 13th Upper Canada KJV* Amen

[@joewagner8275]

get an iwalk, dude.

[@thomasmccarty09]

That's a lot of walking no way are there over weight people.

[@HambonianStudios]

Oh, stop it already… You’re an able bodied person who suffered a temporary injury that will heal in due time. You’re not at all disabled, and to suggest as much is an insult to people who truly suffer in the real world with legitimate disabilities.

[@michaelchin3550]

A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities.

[@michaelchin3550]

AK has a temporary legitimate disability. LOL. I don't think he had any intentions of insulting anyone.

[@ctrlthealt]

@@michaelchin3550 I agree; the term “disability” should include temporary disabilities too. ActionKid's use of the term is fully justified!

[@Dalenumba3]

I am disabled from ptsd. I don’t need you to lambast this dude for me. I get what he was trying to say.

[@HambonianStudios]

@@michaelchin3550 It warms the heart to know that Kenneth has family members (with burner accounts) who’ll stick up for him at the drop of a hat, no matter how wrong he may be.

[@margakat]

The MTA should be ashamed. This is bull shit accessibility

[@mansize6622]

It is tramp's fault ?

[@darthdawgz74gd]

Bro this whole accident thing is getting out of line like bro u have no disability yr just a weak person trying to use yr injury as a pity party it's disgusting

[@back2the80s]

Using it to his advantage for views. Dude isn’t disabled period. He will milk it as long as possible. Terrible titled video to those who are truly disabled. It’s not right

[@michaelchin3550]

Relax. You are focusing on the wrong reason why AK did this video. Just showing people how to get around on the NYC subway system. You have no clue what AK is about. I know him better than anyone here judging AK's intentions. Get off your high horse and stop judging AK's intentions. By the way Bro, he is not a weak person.

[@darthdawgz74gd]

@michaelchin3550 bro hes been showing us the subway for the past 5 years I think if u live in nyc for that long you would know it by now. I drive all day and I know the subway system by heart. Yr just makin excuses. His intentions are as clear as day everyone is saying it to he has no real disability and he wants to portray weakness to do it. He's probably good already and fakin a front

[@michaelchin3550]

@@darthdawgz74gd In the past 5 years did he show people how to get around to finding where the elevators to the NYC subway system is? His intentions are as clear as day to those who know him best. You know nothing about Actionkid. Your point is getting redundant. There seems to be many more who appreciate what he does. By the way, I am not your bro! I am your father! LOL.

[@michaelchin3550]

​@@darthdawgz74gd In the past 5 years did Actionkid show the people the locations of the elevators to the NYC subway system? What is your point? There are many who appreciate his informative video. Think what you want to think. By the way, I am not your bro. I am your father! LOL.

[@keithng2517]

Too bad your wheelchair has to be pushed can't be drivien. Get more freedom to move.

[@davidellis5141]

Trolls & Bots will not hinder The ActionKid. 🐼

[@michaelchin3550]

I agree! Thanks for the support. Actionkid is truly a good human being.