The donated handmade wooden benches are not ADA compliant so the city is forcing the builder to remove them. So having literally nothing is the alternative. Also the city says the builder can put the benches in their parks, but wouldn’t that also need to be ADA compliant?
I mean, they couldn’t build an ADA bench next to it? Seems like one of those cases a grandfather clause is useful. New York doesn’t rip out it’s history overnight, it adds to things to make them compliant while preserving the unique culture