Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
Above: star of A Vigilante Olivia Wilde with Henry Street team members Beverly Atkinson (left) and Theather Huggins (right). Wilde and the filmmakers consulted with Atkinson and Huggins on how to depict survivors’ support groups. Photo by Patrick Lewis/Starpix. Henry Street’s Domestic Violence Program team have always been our all-stars, but now they’re actually movie stars, cast… Read More »
Members of Urban Youth Theater at Abrons Arts Center at a workshop with Morgan Bassichis and Ethan Philbrick of Klezmer for Beginners. “Ok, I want everybody to find a spot on the floor. When you get there, lie down on your backs and look up at the ceiling.” At the direction of comedic performer Morgan… Read More »
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Due to the storm, the following Henry Street programs will be closed on Monday, March 4: Early Childhood Education Center After-school programs Sports & Recreation Boys & Girls Republic Cornerstone Henry Street Settlement Senior Center NORC Workforce Development Center Jobs Plus Abrons classes (but the Center will be open) The following programs will be open:… Read More »
For Miriam Mercado, Tai Chi is on Tuesday. Flower-making is on Thursday. Exercise, dance, art, and bingo happen every day. Mercado is one of a loyal cadre of regulars who never miss a day the Henry Street Settlement Senior Center. The 75-year-old has come to the center for about six years, traveling from her home… Read More »
He came to the United States at the age of nine without knowing a word of English. A born actor and poet, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez didn’t get a leading part in his elementary school’s production of The Wizard of Oz because of his accent. He’s been proving his school wrong ever since. “Every immigrant struggles,… Read More »
Yan and Jimmy’s family success story started at Henry Street. Jimmy Zheng came to the United States from China in 2008. He had heard that “in the U.S., you’d have freedom, the right to do anything,” but he acknowledges the adjustment was difficult. (For one thing, in China, no one eats salad, he jokes.) Yanquing… Read More »
Kalsang Lhamo came to New York in 2005 from a farming community in Tibet. Knowing that learning English was essential to finding a good job, the 24-year-old signed up for ESOL and housekeeping classes at Henry Street, at the advice of a friend. Although she received a housekeeping certificate, Kalsang struggled with English and instead… Read More »
In 2014, desperate for a way out of an abusive marriage, Yuharnis Abdullah reached out to Henry Street’s Neighborhood Resource Center (NRC) for advice on the next steps toward a divorce from her spouse of 21 years. She had come to the United States in 1993 following an arranged marriage. Though she had completed college… Read More »
Having grown up in Breman Asikuma, a town in Ghana’s Central Region, Haleema Forson, 32, became a middle school science and math teacher there when she was only 19. But she dreamed of coming to the United States, where her aunts, uncles, and cousins lived. “I thought it was like heaven,” she says of America…. Read More »
