Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
Help Henry Street Settlement bring the joy and magic of the holiday season to thousands across the Lower East Side! Our goal for the 2022 Holiday Drive is to distribute 3,000 gifts to low-income families in our community. We’ve made it super easy with an Amazon gift registry that allows you to select gifts that… Read More »
Above: A guest views an art piece. Photo by Deonté Lee for BFA. The Art Show 2022 Benefit Preview, Henry Street Settlement’s largest annual fundraiser, opened on Wednesday, November 2, welcoming more than 2,000 celebrities, philanthropists, long-time Settlement supporters, and Henry Street team members to the elegant Park Avenue Armory. Organized by the Art Dealers… Read More »
More than 100 years ago, nursing pioneer and activist Lillian Wald, with her nurse colleagues, philanthropic partners, and others, set out to transform health care and create a network of social services for residents of New York City’s Lower East Side and, ultimately, the entire city. Today, one of Wald’s key innovations—school-based health services for… Read More »
The Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street will host the Mercedes Healing Room—an exhibition and workshops for adults with dementia and their caregivers—from November 7 to 19, 2022. Learn more here: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/oye-group-the-mercedes-healing-room Download the flyers here: English and Spanish Financial planning: https://www.alz.org/help-support/caregiving/financial-legal-planning Explains the benefits of financially planning for the challenges dementia will bring to… Read More »
Henry Street Settlement is pleased to launch “Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines,” an oral history project, on our website, henrystreet.org/oralhistory. The project is the culmination of 30 oral history interviews with Henry Street frontline staff members, program participants, and neighborhood residents, recorded in spring and early summer 2020. During this period, Henry Street underwent… Read More »
A family of four in their Urban Family Center apartment in 1996. Photo: Ken Wittenberg. On Monday, October 3, 2022, Henry Street Settlement came together to celebrate 50 years of service at the Urban Family Center—the nation’s first apartment-style transitional shelter with onsite social services for families. HISTORY In 1972 when UFC was founded, more… Read More »
Doran Kaufman explains the planets within the solar system to a City Trekker at the Natural History Museum. Henry Street Settlement, through its partnership with the New York City Summer Youth Employment Program, offered 1,919 youth aged 14 to 24 a sweeping variety of employment opportunities—the vast majority of them in-person—this summer, a substantial increase… Read More »
Each week, the Community Response Team delivers nutritious groceries to people facing food insecurity. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Henry Street Settlement listened attentively to its community and team while continually adjusting and building its responses to the immediate needs of the Lower East Side. Prevalent unemployment, difficulties accessing food,… Read More »
Henry Street Settlement continues to serve the community by offering opportunities to NYCHA residents in the Lower East Side and beyond. See below for our offerings! NYCHA ARTS INITIATIVE – Free Arts Classes Learn Dance, Theater, Music, or Visual Art! All NYCHA residents living in zip codes 10002, 10003, 10009, and 10038 are eligible for FREE… Read More »
On July 5, 2022, President & CEO David Garza shared the following thoughts with Henry Street team members regarding the recent series of Supreme Court decisions. This year’s Independence Day came on the heels of several profoundly disappointing recent Supreme Court decisions—rulings that endanger millions, whether through abortion restrictions, gun policy, or religious infringement. On… Read More »
