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Youthmarket Brings Fresh Produce to Lower East Side

On a blazing Thursday, a team of high school and college students kept crisp their enticing stocks of oregano, blueberries, lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, and tomatoes under a shady tent top. They had set up the recognizable GrowNYC tent in front of Abrons Arts Center at 7 a.m. in time for their produce delivery from a Bronx warehouse—and… Read More »

Henry Streeters Advocate for Change

Henry Street seniors, top left, rally at City Hall with Council Member Margaret Chin, foreground, for adequate funding for programs for older adults.  Participants in Henry Street programs raised their voices at New York City Hall in June, campaigning for causes close to our hearts. Youth from Henry Street’s Urban Family Center (UFC) shelter joined… Read More »

Workforce Development Success: Hotel on Rivington

(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 »

Illuminating Sephardic Jewish Food Traditions

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 »

Applauding Our Scholars

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 »

Symmetry: Sylvia Bloom and Lillian Wald

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 »

Youth Set Up for Slam Dunk Season

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 »

Making Hidden Histories Public Again June 4

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 »

Henry Street Donation Goes Global!

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 »

Coming Together for KAWS and A Cause

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 »

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