Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
During the earliest days of the Covid pandemic, Henry Street’s public historian, Katie Vogel, launched an oral history project to record the Settlement team and community’s sudden shift, as employees throughout the agency found themselves in new roles as pandemic frontline workers, creating new programs practically overnight to respond to the community’s urgent needs. On… Read More »
Marilyn Peña has always been there for everyone else, but when it came to herself, she had little support. Her job—working with elders and children with autism—took a lot of energy, and when she came home to nurture her artistic and energetic eight-year-old daughter, she was stuck for answers and felt alone. “I was pouring… Read More »
In a poignant return to her roots, Lower East Side native Liseida Meléndez became the program director of Henry Street’s Early Childhood Education center in August 2024. “It’s a wonderful, full-circle position for me,” says Liseida, whose children grew up attending Henry Street’s programs. As a child, her daughter spent entire Saturday mornings at Abrons… Read More »
The Art Show 2024 Benefit Preview, Henry Street Settlement’s largest annual fundraiser, opened on Tuesday, October 29, welcoming more than 2,300 philanthropists, influencers, long-time Settlement supporters, and Henry Street Board and team members to the elegant Park Avenue Armory. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, The Art Show is Henry Street’s greatest source of unrestricted… Read More »
Rosemarie Hameed, 61, has faced many challenges throughout her life. Separated from her younger sister when she entered foster care at age 10, she spent her teenage years in youth homes and living on the street. At 16, Rosemarie became a mother for the first time. She went on to raise eight children, including two… Read More »
Left to right: Runners Adam Varano, Jack Marshall, Caroline Perkins, Katie Kelley, Stella Thomas, and and Henry Street team member Jeremy Reiss. Five first-time TCS New York City Marathon runners and a returning runner will join the race on Sunday, November 3, 2024, as Henry Street charity partners. Many thanks to Adam, Caroline, Hanna, Jack,… Read More »
Enid Zwirn in her nursing uniform during her time at Beth Israel Hospital School of Nursing, early 1960s. Enid Zwirn remembers workers pouring concrete to make the sidewalks outside of the Lillian Wald Houses on Avenue D, where she and her family lived, in 1949. She saw tenements being razed to make way for more… Read More »
Jasmine Corchado, second from left, has been the director of Henry Street’s Older Adult Center since 2022, but her connection to the Settlement goes back to her childhood. While Jasmine Corchado, was growing up in the Vladeck Houses, it was a place of family, unity, and laughter, she says. “You knew when the lights started… Read More »
“I’m not a saint but I’m going marching in,” Gavin Rumph, 40, says with a laugh, describing his enthusiastic embrace of Henry Street’s CONNECT (Continuous Engagement between Community and Clinic Treatment) support groups. As a teenager from Georgia, Gavin struggled to fit in at school when he moved to Texas to live with his father…. Read More »
If you’ve walked by a LinkNYC kiosk recently, you may have noticed a familiar name. This month, Henry Street Settlement is featured on video screens all across New York City, spotlighting our Workforce Development programs. Henry Street was selected by the nonprofit media agency F.Y. Eye, which, through its PSA Network, posts public service announcements… Read More »
