Even if it is still required by the MTA, the number of people wearing masks as they board the train, bus or paratransit vehicles dwindled in June 2022. Disabled activists from the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled took upon themselves meet the riders outside the Atlantic terminal station in Brooklyn to remind them to mask up on public transportation as they distributed KN95 masks. —Yan Grenier
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![BCID Systems Advocate Liz Valdez holds a box of KN95 masks on her lap while a passerby (already holding a mask and leaflet) looks on.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mask-up-1.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1)
![BCID Advocacy Coordinator Cara Liebowitz offers masks and leaflets to passerby. An orange sign reading "Masks On" is stuck in her wheelchair cupholder.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mask-up-5.jpg?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1)
![BCID Systems Advocate Liz Valdez hands out masks to passerby at Atlantic Terminal.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mask-up-3.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1)
![BCID staff Liz, Millie, and Cara sit outside Atlantic Terminal in their power wheelchairs. All are masked up and Liz and Millie are holding orange "Masks on" signs.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mask-up-4.jpg?resize=800%2C629&ssl=1)
![BCID Systems Advocate Liz Valdez offers a mask and leaflet to police at Atlantic Terminal.](https://i0.wp.com/disabilitycovidchronicles.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mask-up-2.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1)