Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
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 »
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 »
Henry Street Settlement’s homeless shelters may be located on the Lower East Side, but when its residents move out and into permanent housing, more than 80 percent of them end up in the central Bronx district represented by New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres. To help smooth the transition and ensure former clients stay… Read More »
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development awarded Henry Street Settlement a $646,500 grant as part of their Continuuum of Care Program Competition. The funds will support aftercare services for residents who move into permanent housing after living in one in Henry Street’s transitional and supportive housing shelters. “We are thrilled and grateful to… Read More »
Click here to see photos from these trips » Henry Street’s Expanded Horizons program (EH)—which works to get youth into college and, more importantly, to get them through college—hit the road twice this winter! On one trip, 43 high school juniors enrolled in the program visited snowy Boston to tour Wheaton College, Boston University and… Read More »
Click here to see photos of the Art Show Gala Preview » Neither snow nor sleet kept New York City’s leading philanthropists, art enthusiasts, and business, cultural and social leaders, from attending the elegant 27th annual Art Show Gala Preview last night at the Park Avenue Armory. The Art Show—one of the foremost art fairs… Read More »
Click here to see photos from this event » The Abrons Arts Center celebrated the 100th anniversary of its Playhouse with a Centennial Birthday Bash on February 12th that was the talk of the neighborhood and arts community. The party – held exactly 100 years after the Playhouse first opened its doors – began with… Read More »
Dozens of middle school students volunteered to help Henry Street’s Abrons Arts Center distribute materials about arts classes throughout the Lower East Side. Though most of them were new visitors to the Abrons, their teacher, Wayne Casimir, is not. Wayne – whose mother Debbie Cox has worked at Henry Street for 33 years — practically… Read More »
NYPD’s Housing Bureau Police Service Area 4’s newest commanding officer, Captain Jesse Lance, visited Henry Street Settlement’s Good Companions Center to greet the seniors and answer any questions that they may have about any recent news in the area, including reports of ATM skimming and how to avoid it. The seniors, many of whom live… Read More »
With the help of a Henry Street Settlement college counselor, Mariel Arias, a 17-year-old senior at the Henry Street School for International Studies, will head off to Dickinson College in Pennsylvania next fall with a four-year full-tuition scholarship from the Posse Foundation. He is the first student at his school to receive the prestigious scholarship,… Read More »
