A fact from Anne Emerman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator? Source: Mother Teresa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for tending to the poor around the world, found that out the hard way. She and Roman Catholic nuns from the Missionaries of Charity convent in the South Bronx wanted to convert two tenements into a homeless shelter. Ms. Emerman, then in her role in the mayor’s office, liked the idea but said they needed to install an elevator for people who could not use the stairs. The nuns, who were already putting $500,000 into the project, didn’t want to pay more for an elevator. Beyond that, they said they were forbidden by their religious vows to use modern conveniences; they offered to carry up the stairs those who couldn’t make it on their own. Ms. Emerman would have none of it “Their attitude in India is, they go out and carry people in off the street,” she told The New York Times in 1990. “That’s viewed as a sign of caring and affection. We said no, you don’t carry people up and down in our society. That’s not acceptable here.” After much debate, Mother Teresa pulled the plug on the project. “Mother Teresa didn’t believe it was worth putting in an elevator,” an official of the Archdiocese of New York told The Times. She and the nuns thought they could put their money to better use by buying soup and sandwiches. While some hailed the outcome as a triumph for the disability rights movement, others were outraged. Many, including church officials, considered Ms. Emerman inflexible and her stance a prime example of an out-of-control bureaucracy trumping common sense. The New York Times
Alt1... that all new building in New York City is wheelchair accessible, because Anne Emerman demanded it?
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Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and has enough sources. The source cited in the hook is paywalled, so AGF. No significant copyvio detected and qpq is done. This one's ready to go! BuySomeApples (talk) 00:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Article is new enough, long enough and has enough sources. The source cited in the hook is paywalled, so AGF. No significant copyvio detected and qpq is done. This one's ready to go! BuySomeApples (talk) 00:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)