Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
In June 2020, NYU Press published the long-awaited history of our agency, The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement, by Ellen Snyder-Grenier. The book begins with an event that many Henry Street friends know well: On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through… Read More »
Above: Teams of volunteers fan out across the Lower East Side, delivering groceries to seniors and others who must stay home to stay healthy. Photo by Marc Goldberg. When Justine Samuel, 59, first learned about the impending coronavirus pandemic, her mind started racing: How would she get groceries and make meals if she had to… Read More »
The Class of 2020 celebrating their hard work at this year’s virtual Scholarship Ceremony & Decision Day. The 18th annual Expanded Horizons College Access and Success scholarship ceremony was like no other, nor is the class that took the virtual stage to accept scholarships and announce their college decisions on Zoom on Thursday, June 12,… Read More »
“The Masked Rider,” Bill Dinh, one of the finalists in @NewYorkNico’s #BestNYPhoto competition. New Yorkers submitted more than 5,000 photographs to the #BestNYPhoto competition launched May 17, 2020, by documentary filmmaker and Instagram influencer @NewYorkNico (aka Nicolas Heller). Heller invited the public, including his 396k IG followers, to post their best pictures of the unprecedented… Read More »
Henry Street Settlement condemns the recent deplorable racist actions perpetrated throughout the nation, from George Floyd in Minnesota, to Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, to Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, to Christian Cooper in our own Central Park. We believe that Black people and all people of color must have the right to live safely, peacefully, and… Read More »
Henry Street Settlement President & CEO David Garza has been named to two new mayoral Sector Advisory Councils, established on May 8, 2020, to inform city government on efforts to help New York City stabilize, recover, reopen, and rebuild in the wake of the current trauma. Garza was appointed to the Non-Profit and Social Services… Read More »
It’s not too late to complete the 2020 Census and make your voice and your community’s voice count! Filling out the Census takes less than 10 minutes, and all of your information will remain confidential. An accurate count ensures that our cities, neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, and more receive the federal funding and support we… Read More »
From Katie Vogel, Henry Street Settlement public historian: Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, we share a letter from the family archive of Daniel Schack, a member of Henry Street Settlement’s Community Consultation Center. Daniel’s family emigrated from Poland to New York City in 1920, part of the mass exodus of Jewish people from the Russian… Read More »
