Gianna Gregoire got out of her wheelchair and walked.
It had been six weeks since her last steps. And on this day, her feet gripped the Madison Square Garden hardwood, as they had done many times before.
“A place like that is one in a million,” Gregoire said between bites of ice cream and french fries at a Morris Park diner. “Center of the world. Center of New York City. I wanted my first steps to be in the center of what’s important.