Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
Aleena Torres is taking dance classes at Abrons Arts Center. Aleena Torres, 10, comes from a family of performers. She always says, “One day I’m going to be famous like my dad.” From her outgoing and friendly demeanor, you wouldn’t know she lost her mother in June 2021. “The past couple of months have been… Read More »
Photo by: Office of New York City Comptroller On Monday, February 14, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and senior members of the New York City Mayor’s Office gathered together at Henry Street Settlement’s Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center to release the findings of A Better Contract for New York: A Joint Task Force to… Read More »
In January 2022, lifelong Henry Streeter Lavender Texidor, 22, began a receptionist position at NewYork-Presbyterian in the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates (WCIMA) department on the Upper East Side after spending nine months as a patient greeter in the hospital’s neurology division. She is one of 20 Employment Services participants who have started jobs at… Read More »
Above: Portrait of Lillian Wald in a fur hat. c. 1905. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Lillian Wald and the community of women she worked with to establish Henry Street Settlement will forever be remembered in LGBT history. On Thursday, December 9, 2021, the New York State Historic Preservation Office voted to approve a new… Read More »
The Youth Opportunity Hub—a beneficiary of the Sheehan Family Companies gift—helped Kymani Morrison, left, develop a more hopeful outlook toward the future, with guidance from his Mentoring and Nurturing (M.A.N.) mentor, Toddrick Brockington. Henry Street Settlement has received a transformative gift—one of the largest in its history—a combined donation from Union Beer Distributors, a… Read More »
Above: Guest stands in front of Gottfried Helwein’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (2021) at The Art Show 2021 Benefit Preview. Photo by Cesarin Mateo. The Art Show 2021 Benefit Preview, Henry Street Settlement’s largest annual fundraiser, opened on Wednesday, November 3, inaugurating new fall dates on the calendar and creating a joyous… Read More »
The inaugural building automation class learned to program lighting systems for large, modern buildings. When Nathanseth Cruz, 19, walks around town with friends, he sometimes finds himself saying things like, “Wow, I see a split system! I would have thought it was a boiler or cooling tower.” Like most people, Cruz never thought about how… Read More »
Read our Fall 2021 Newsletter. Henry Street Settlement’s mission is to open doors of opportunity. But opportunity isn’t a one-time event. It’s a process, and often a multi-step one. At the Settlement, we work hard to stay close to the members of our community who are in the greatest need of a chance to succeed—seniors,… Read More »
In honor of World Mental Health Day, October 10, Henry Street is highlighting one of our many mental health programs available to the community. Henry Street’s School-Based Mental Health team is just one of our programs that adapted overnight when the pandemic struck—moving online not only counseling but interventions such as play therapy and sand… Read More »
When Dominique Santiago was a child, she liked to play with dirt, “but this is the first time I was doing it for a purpose” says the Henry Street LES Mobile Market team member of her spring 2021 experience with the Lower East Side Ecology Center. “The idea for collaborating with Henry Street came to… Read More »
