A bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin saved Benjamin's life. A bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin saved Yannick Benjamin’s career; wine saved his life. On October 27, 2003, Benjamin had a car accident on the West ...

Before a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Yannick Benjamin worked in restaurants and studied the art of wine. After the crash, on the West Side Highway in October 2003, Benjamin ...

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 ...

It’s May again — which, for New York’s wine community, means only one thing: Wine on Wheels. It all began in 2003, when Yannick Benjamin was hit by a car on the West Side Highway. Then a 25-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yannick Benjamin appears to be the first and only wheelchair sommelier in the world. It took him ten years from the date of a terrible car accident to finally fulfill his dream of returning to a ...