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Celebrate U Celebrates Henry Street

Click here to see photos from a recent Celebrate U party at Henry Street Settlement » For many children, celebrating birthdays with a party is an annual event – and one that’s eagerly anticipated. But for children in homeless shelters, birthday parties are rare. That is, until recently, when the Celebrate U Foundation began hosting… Read More »

Achievements In Sight For Expanded Horizons

Henry Street Settlement’s 13th Annual Youth Scholarship Awards Ceremony celebrated the 74 recipients of the Abrons/Aranow Youth Scholarship, the Sobie Family Scholarship and the Bernard Tannenbaum Memorial Scholarship. The ceremony was held on June 3, 2015, in the festively decorated gym at 301 Henry Street. The Ceremony also celebrated the college students’ bright futures by… Read More »

Henry Street Seniors Receive Penny Harvest Donation from PS184M

When people say no donation is too small, they’re right! Henry Street Settlement received a generous donation of $500 – raised only in pennies – from students at local  elementary school PS 184M, the Shuang Wen School. The students and Shuang Wen School donated the $500 to Henry Street’s Good Companions Senior Center. The students,… Read More »

Abrons Awarded an Obie!

For the second consecutive year, the Abrons Arts Center was recognized at the 60th Annual Obie Awards Ceremony, held on May 18th at Webster Hall. The Obie Awards, given annually by The Village Voice, recognize excellence in Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater. An Obie was presented for Lippy, co-presented by the Abrons and the Irish… Read More »

Henry Street Serves Growing Chinese Community

Each year Henry Street Settlement serves 60,000 New Yorkers—in part by overcoming language barriers with the neighborhood’s growing Chinese population. Henry Street’s Community Consultation Center (CCC) offers Mental Health services in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, to treat a range of  Mental Health concerns including depression,  mood disorders etc., family and immigration  issues. “With the population… Read More »

Waking Up with Jayson Williams

Click here to see photos » What gets Henry Street middle school students up really early in the morning? The chance to learn basketball skills from Jayson Williams, former NBA all-star. The story began in 1978 when Williams, then 11 years old, and his mother sought refuge in a Settlement homeless shelter.  Now, the 6’… Read More »

Crème de la Crème – Senior Center Does Meal Service Better!

The hundreds of meals served each day at Henry Street’s Good Companions Senior Center (GCSC) are not just nutritious – they’re delicious! Or “delicioso!” as the clients often say. That’s because the kitchen staff includes two graduates of the prestigious Johnson &Wales College of Culinary Arts. Food Services Manager Zechariah Hairston, who studied international cuisine… Read More »

Henry Street Settlement 2015 Dinner Dance: Elegant and Spirited

Click here to view photos from the 2015 Dinner Dance » Filled with energy, rousing spirit and, most importantly, generous individuals whose support makes the Settlement’s work possible, the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel elegantly set the stage  for Henry Street’s 2015 Dinner Dance on April 14. Honored at the event were Michael Steinberg,… Read More »

Henry Street School for International Studies Career Day

Click here to see photos from Career Day » They say it takes a village to raise a child — at Henry Street Settlement we believe it takes a neighborhood. The Settlement’s Expanded Horizons program, which operates a satellite college access program at the Henry Street School for International Studies (HSSIS), recently hosted a Career… Read More »

Celebrating Social Workers Across the Lower East Side

Henry Street Settlement along with the five other LES Settlement Houses held a celebration to recognize social workers from the LES settlement houses . For the first time, all of the Lower East Side settlement houses celebrated Social Work Month together at a celebratory breakfast held at the Educational Alliance’s Manny Cantor Center on Friday,… Read More »

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