A local nonprofit is helping people with disabilities who may not otherwise have the means to get the services they need. Wheeling Forward was founded by Alex Elegudin and Yannick Benjamin back in ...

What you see when you walk into Yannick Benjamin's restaurant, Contento, is a lively bistro in East Harlem, in New York City. Brick walls, wooden tables, bright art on the walls: It could be any other ...

At Contento, a new restaurant in New York City, half the bar is low enough so that people in wheelchairs can come right up and order a drink, without the awkwardness of the bartender or the rest of ...

Our New Yorkers of the Week were bounded by life-changing accidents, but they helped each other move forward -- and today, they're using their experience to empower others to do the same. Roma Torre ...

WHEN I FIRST MET Yannick Benjamin, in 2013, he was working at Le Dû Wines, a retail shop in the West Village of New York City. Until a car accident 10 years earlier left him paralyzed from the waist ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am based in NYC, covering the world of beauty and dining. It all began in 2003, when Yannick Benjamin was hit by a car on the ...

For years, Yannick Benjamin hung a poster of “Cheers” bar owner Sam Malone in the bedroom of his Hell’s Kitchen apartment. “That was always my dream, to be Sam Malone,” he says. Benjamin, a well known ...

At Contento, a new restaurant in New York City, half the bar is low enough so that people in wheelchairs can come right up and order a drink, without the awkwardness of the bartender or the rest of ...