Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
Participants in the oral history project “Hope & Resilience on the COVID Frontlines” 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… Read More »
On March 10, 2022 dozens of Henry Streeters attended the #JustPay rally in unison with over 1,000 other public service partners, elected officials, and supporters at City Hall Park. The Human Services Council of New York–led event was successful in representing nonprofit workers, demanding cost-of-living adjustments and living wages for those who provide essential human… Read More »
Aleena Torres is taking dance classes at Abrons Arts Center. Aleena Torres, 10, comes from a family of performers. She always says, “One day I’m going to be famous like my dad.” From her outgoing and friendly demeanor, you wouldn’t know she lost her mother in June 2021. “The past couple of months have been… Read More »
Photo by: Office of New York City Comptroller On Monday, February 14, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and senior members of the New York City Mayor’s Office gathered together at Henry Street Settlement’s Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center to release the findings of A Better Contract for New York: A Joint Task Force to… Read More »
In January 2022, lifelong Henry Streeter Lavender Texidor, 22, began a receptionist position at NewYork-Presbyterian in the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates (WCIMA) department on the Upper East Side after spending nine months as a patient greeter in the hospital’s neurology division. She is one of 20 Employment Services participants who have started jobs at… Read More »
Above: Portrait of Lillian Wald in a fur hat. c. 1905. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Lillian Wald and the community of women she worked with to establish Henry Street Settlement will forever be remembered in LGBT history. On Thursday, December 9, 2021, the New York State Historic Preservation Office voted to approve a new… Read More »
The Youth Opportunity Hub—a beneficiary of the Sheehan Family Companies gift—helped Kymani Morrison, left, develop a more hopeful outlook toward the future, with guidance from his Mentoring and Nurturing (M.A.N.) mentor, Toddrick Brockington. Henry Street Settlement has received a transformative gift—one of the largest in its history—a combined donation from Union Beer Distributors, a… Read More »
Above: Guest stands in front of Gottfried Helwein’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (2021) at The Art Show 2021 Benefit Preview. Photo by Cesarin Mateo. The Art Show 2021 Benefit Preview, Henry Street Settlement’s largest annual fundraiser, opened on Wednesday, November 3, inaugurating new fall dates on the calendar and creating a joyous… Read More »
The inaugural building automation class learned to program lighting systems for large, modern buildings. When Nathanseth Cruz, 19, walks around town with friends, he sometimes finds himself saying things like, “Wow, I see a split system! I would have thought it was a boiler or cooling tower.” Like most people, Cruz never thought about how… Read More »
Read our Fall 2021 Newsletter. Henry Street Settlement’s mission is to open doors of opportunity. But opportunity isn’t a one-time event. It’s a process, and often a multi-step one. At the Settlement, we work hard to stay close to the members of our community who are in the greatest need of a chance to succeed—seniors,… Read More »
