The owners of six Times Square playhouses known as Theatre Row will give away free tickets to wheelchair users to settle a discrimination probe by the state Attorney General’s Office, The Post has learned.
The 42nd Street Development Corp. also agreed to start selling wheelchair-accessible seats in its six venues the same way it sells seats to the general public, whether online, over the phone or through third-party vendors.
Settlement papers say the AG’s investigation found that the company was “failing to ensure that accessible seating was sold during the same hours and stages of sales as other seating, and made available through the same distribution and purchasing methods.”
“People with disabilities should have the same opportunities to enjoy places of public accommodation as all Americans, and theaters are no exception,” Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.
Under terms of the deal, a pair of tickets to The Acorn Theatre -- one for a wheelchair user, and one for a companion -- will be given away once a month for a year.
The ducats will be distributed by non-profit groups that provide services to the disabled.
bruce.golding@nypost.com
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