Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
(Carolyn Arnovitz, fourth from left, and Hotel on Rivington staff.) Finding ideal employees –hardworking, dependable, and committed to quality – is among an employer’s biggest challenges. For a small independent hotel, without the resources of a corporate headquarters, that task is even more daunting. Fortunately, Carolyn Arnovitz, Director of Housekeeping at Hotel on Rivington, discovered… Read More »
Jessica Underwood Varma, left, and Sarah Lohman at “Hidden Immigration Histories of the Lower East Side: Sephardic Jewish Food Traditions” on June 4, 2018. Hidden histories were revealed at Henry Street Settlement on June 4, 2018, when over 75 curious individuals gathered in the Settlement’s historic dining room for the public history program Hidden Immigration… Read More »
The Expanded Horizons Class of 2018 at the 16th Annual Scholarship Ceremony on May 31, 2018 Applause bounced off the walls of the gym at 301 Henry Street throughout the 16th Annual Expanded Horizons Scholarship Ceremony, held on Thursday, May 31. Proud family, friends and Henry Street team members cheered as over 100 scholarships from… Read More »
When I heard last week about the extraordinary multimillion dollar donation by Sylvia Bloom, who died in 2016, to Henry Street Settlement, the word that immediately came to mind was the one I wrote to my Settlement friends: “there is a real symmetry there,” I told them. For Sylvia Bloom’s legacy will now support the… Read More »
Henry Street youth and coaches huddle up before a BGR basketball game. They just might go all the way! Henry Street’s outstanding Boys & Girls Republic (BGR) youth basketball teams are set to square off against rival teams from Union Settlement and the Community Association of Progressive Dominicans in the finals of the citywide Saturday… Read More »
Above: Sarah Lohman and Jessica Underwood Varma UPDATE: we are no longer collecting registrations as this event is full. Please sign up for our wait list and if space becomes available, we will let you know. Hidden Histories of the Lower East Side: Sephardic Jewish Food Traditions – a free public program with food tastings – will… Read More »
Above: Henry Street Settlement Executive Director with WABC7-NY’s NJ Burkett. It was the donation heard around the world. A May 7, 2018 front page story in The New York Times about the staggering $6.24 million donation to Henry Street from the estate of a legal secretary, caught fire the moment it was published. In the seven… Read More »
It was a hot-pink-carpet-affair at Metrograph on Wednesday, May 9 as Henry Street Settlement hosted more than 250 guests at the second annual CINEMAtheque Party. At the event, held to raise funds for Henry Street’s social service, arts and health care programs, Henry Street unveiled an exciting collaborative art installation, pictured above, by special guest artist KAWS and… Read More »
Daniel Chen, M.D., addresses the crowd at Henry Street Settlement Senior Services’ inaugural mental health conference. Henry Street Settlement Senior Services ushered in Mental Health Awareness Month at its inaugural mental health conference, Stamping Out Stigma: Exploring Mental Health in Multicultural Senior Populations, held at the Settlement’s Community Consultation Center May 3, 2018. The event brought… Read More »
(Above: students from Henry Street’s Expanded Horizons College Success Program, class of 2017.) Henry Street Settlement received $6.24 million – the largest single estate gift to the Settlement in its history — from the estate of Sylvia Bloom-Margolies. The gift will be used to create The Bloom-Margolies Scholarship Fund in Memory of Sylvia Bloom Margolies,… Read More »
