New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. with honorees and co-sponsors at his Disability Awareness Month celebration at City Hall on Monday, November 19, 2007. Pictured (back, l to r) are: Lawrence Carter-Long, Director of Advocacy, Disabilities Network of New York City (DNNYC); Marvin Wasserman, Executive Director, Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled and Founder and Steering Committee Member, Taxis for All Campaign; LaVerne D. Miller, Esq., Director, Howie T. Harp Peer Advocacy Center Consumer Access, Inc.; Thompson; Matt Aubry, Director of Development, YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities Network; Reverend William Wrede, St. Matthew's Lutheran Church of the Deaf, Queens; Barbara Klein, Director of Development, The Jewish Guild for the Blind; (front, l to r) Carl Jacobsen, President, National Federation of the Blind of New York State; Christopher Greif, Consumer Advocate and Executive Assistant to the Chairperson, Brooklyn Consumer Council; Al Lepre, Director, American Deaf Exposition; and, Reverend María Isabel Santiviago, Vicar, St. Ann’s Church of the Deaf at Calvary at St. George’s Episcopal Church, Manhattan.