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: The method acting pioneer Constantin Stanislavski was just one of many fascinating visitors who signed Lillian Wald’s guest book. Henry Street Settlement founder Lillian Wald’s guest book was found in a dusty trunk at the Neighborhood Playhouse during the spring of 2019. The delicate binding of this unassuming floral guest book protects the notes… Read More »
Above: Counselor Luna Minnifield, an SYEP particpant, takes a break from morning dancing with a Camp Henry camper. It’s 9:00 a.m. at Camp Henry, and pint-sized participants are starting their day with a quarter-hour of stretching and then another 15 minutes of dancing. Amid laughing chicken dancers and Gangnam style ponies in Henry Street’s Boys… Read More »
To find current tour listings, please go to henrystreet.org/queerhistory The Lower East Side is an international crossroads of communities—including queer communities, which existed well before the dawn of a queer liberation movement and have continued into the post-Stonewall period. Henry Street will host our first ever FREE queer history walking tour of the Lower East… Read More »
Our 2020 annual report is out now and we are sharing the featured stories of strength and resilience. Read more about Patricia below, or in our annual report now. Patricia Storey fell in love with working with seniors while caring for her great aunt Dorothy who lived in a Manhattan nursing home. Every time Patricia came to… Read More »
The first computer Jadah Stone loved was a chunky, white monstrosity that ran Microsoft Windows 95. “Even with the remarkably slow 53kbps internet and terrible droning of the dial-up modem, I was fascinated by the technology,” she says. “That curiosity has followed me into adulthood.” Jadah, 20, from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, enrolled right out of high… Read More »
Above: Expanded Horizons high school and college student participants. The 2021 Expanded Horizons Scholarship Ceremony began with an acknowledgment from Henry Street CEO David Garza that this class of students have overcome tremendous hurdles to graduate from high school and prepare to enter college. At a time of so much loss, he said, “I’m certain… Read More »
Henry Street Settlement is appalled by the current rise in racist and hate-driven attacks and language that is unfolding across the United States, in New York City, and in our own community. In addition to the rise in anti-Black and anti-Asian American/Pacific Islander violence that we have denounced on multiple occasions, we are also seeing an… Read More »
Our 2020 annual report is out now and we are sharing the featured stories of strength and resilience. Read more about Tiana below, or in our annual report now. When the pandemic hit, Tiana Burgos knew she would do anything to keep her grandma safe. “We stocked up on food and stayed inside from March… Read More »
A sense of joy radiated through the courtyard of the Vladeck Houses, under the spring sunshine, as Omayra Torres met up with her Senior Center friends on April 13 for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Masked and sharing elbow bumps with the (fully vaccinated) group, Omayra cheered, “I was waiting for… Read More »
