In the News

Mozart for Munchkins partners with our Community Arts program to hold live classical music events where children can crawl, clap along and dance. PIX 11 visited one concert at the Bernie Wohl Center and filed this adorable story showing our preschool students bopping to Gershwin. Watch the story

Our Law Project, which helps low-income tenants fight eviction and win better living conditions, has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, Daily News, West Side Rag and West Side Spirit in recent stories. Joy Bergmann, who has tenaciously chronicled the fate of Single-Room Occupancy buildings on the Upper West Side, talked to our longtime organizing director Larry Wood […]

In his annual Goddard Riverside town hall, longtime Upper West Side Congressman Jerry Nadler promised sweeping investigations of the Trump administration – likening the role of his powerful Judiciary Committee to that of the Watergate Committee. Nadler has held a town hall at Goddard RiversideÕs Columbus Avenue senior center every year since his days as a […]

PIX 11’s Ayanna Harry covered our annual Christmas meal for the community live from our dining room on Columbus Ave. Watch the video here.

Clark Fouraker interviewed volunteers and guests for this lovely story about our Thanksgiving Holiday Meal for the community. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/11/22/volunteers-around-new-york-give-back-on-thanksgiving/

Goddard is fortunate to have a deep and longstanding partnership with the publishing industry. Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly visited visited several programs to get a sense of how the money raised by the Book Fair Gala and Book Fair supports the community. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/78447-books-support-social-services-at-goddard-riverside.html

The West Side Rag profiles our Green Keepers, a social purpose business that cleans the streets and tends to plants and trees on the Upper West Side while helping people with a history of mental illness gain job skills. 

In this moving and detailed story, a West Side Rag reporter rode with our homeless outreach specialists during a snowstorm and also explored life after homelessness with one of our supportive housing residents.

Congressman Jerry Nadler has visited Goddard Riverside faithfully every year since his election to Congress in 1992 – a habit he established previously as a State Assemblyman. His annual forum, organized by our Family Council, has drawn especially big crowds since Donald Trump’s election in 2016. Three newspapers sent reporters to Nadler’s forum on January 25. Washington […]

New York’s Fox and ABC stations, along with Spectrum News NY1, visited our annual Christmas meal. They spoke with guests, volunteers and Goddard Riverside employees about the importance of addressing hunger and loneliness during holiday time. Watch NY1’s story here .