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Arts Instruction for Everyone

Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center now offers a new tuition system to make its already affordable arts classes and workshops even more accessible to adults and children. The new four-tier scale is based on household income to enable all students, regardless of financial circumstances, to enroll in arts classes.  “Experiencing the arts changes lives,”… Read More »

Candidate Forum: The Crowded Field to Represent District 2

Updated: Answers to audience questions will be posted on this page as we receive them; click here to see the candidates answers » A lively standing-room-only crowd filled the Boys & Girls Republic on Avenue D last night to hear seven candidates vying for the District 2 seat on the NY City Council now held by… Read More »

Block Party Fun

The Abrons Amphitheater was alive with music, dancing and even a little bilingual karaoke as Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center hosted the Summer Block Party on Friday, July 28th. Lower East Side residents were treated to free family entertainment, including face-painting, music and dancing led by emcee Darrel Martin and complimentary refreshments on the warm… Read More »

Welcome Back to the Neighborhood, Henry M. Jackson Playground!

Above: elected officials and Henry Street Settlement Executive Director David Garza at the ribbon cutting for Henry M. Jackson Playground, July 26, 2017. On a beautiful July day, the Lower East Side became even more beautiful with the reopening of the Henry M. Jackson Playground on Wednesday, July 26th. Henry Street Settlement campers and team members… Read More »

Henry Street Teams Continue to Go Above & Beyond

Members of the School Based Mental Health team with Executive Director David Garza at the announcement ceremony.  The winners of Henry Street’s biannual employee recognition program were announced this month, with the Settlement’s School Based Mental Health Clinic (SBMHC) team taking top prize. The program, Above & Beyond 2.0, rewards teams across Henry Street programs… Read More »

Moving On Up… to Kindergarten!

One of the graduating UPK classes performing a dance for gathered family & friends at the Early Childhood Center Graduation Ceremony.  Thirty-one students from Henry Street’s Early Childhood Center celebrated one of their first major milestones last month: Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) graduation! The ceremony took place in the gym at 301 Henry Street, decorated with… Read More »

Lights, Camera, Action at After-School

Henry Street After-School student Santiago Ossa winning Best Director at the SONYC Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Katha Cato. Henry Street Settlement after-school students took home top prizes at the 3rd Annual SONYC Film Festival last month, where middle schoolers from all over the city screened their films to an audience of more than 500… Read More »

Senior Companions Boogie Down at Recognition Luncheon

Program Assistant Amrita Rampaul (left) poses with Senior Companions for the 70s-themed photo booth at the annual Spring Recognition Luncheon.  Over 100 Henry Street Settlement Senior Companions were honored on June 21 at the 2017 Spring Recognition Luncheon, joining employees and community partners in celebrating over 90 years of combined service to seniors throughout the five… Read More »

Community Funding the Community at Henry Street

Above: Members of Henry Street Settlement’s Community Advisory Board (CAB) review the projects receiving funding at their June 2017 meeting. Henry Street Settlement’s Community Advisory Board (CAB) has awarded its first grants – the result of a unique participatory budgeting process. The CAB was responsible for allocating $5,000 of the Settlement’s general operating support dollars to… Read More »

Henry Street Youth: We Are the Champions

Above: Team BGR 14U with their Championship Trophy Two Henry Street youth basketball teams won impressive championship titles in the Saturday Night Lights (SNL) City Wide Invitational Basketball Tournament held in May. In the 14U (for participants ages 14 & under) championship game, Team BGR (with youth from Boys & Girls Republic) faced off Team… Read More »

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