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Eugene Suggs and Todd Renegar gaze upward as they carefully slide open a double folding door in the TOP clubhouse. “This has been closed  for probably decades,” says Todd Renegar, the program manager at TOP. “Look how it lets the light through!” They stop to admire their work, and indeed — with the doors between […]

It’s late afternoon, and the winter light is fading in the high windows at the Bernie Wohl Center as members of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City at Goddard Riverside rehearse a song. “En la cocina my mama is passing the day,” they sing, hunkered over their sheets of music. The voices are […]

New York housing law is a bit like an aging mansion: so many renovations and additions have piled up over the years that it’s become a bewildering maze of old and new. Many protections exist for tenants, but in order to exercise them, you have to know what they are and how to use them. […]

It’s easy to spot Goddard Riverside’s Green Keepers in the summer. They’re all over the Upper West Side in their bright green vests — trimming trees in Riverside Park, tidying up the Broadway Malls, or planting flowers for homeowners. This year you’ll see them all winter, too — thanks to a growing slate of customers. […]

Some people might consider working all day on Thanksgiving and Christmas to be a sacrifice. But Lee Hunkins insists there’s no other way she’d rather spend the holidays. “I love people,” she says. “When I’m here for the Holiday Meals, I’m focused on other people, I’m helping other people and making them feel good. Now […]

It’s been years since David Cully worked in a classroom, but when he sits down with four- and five-year-olds in our Early Learning program, it’s clear he feels right at home. As Cully reads the classic picture book Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, the children crowd around him, pointing at the illustrations, making […]

We’re excited to announce that the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice has released a list of six titles shortlisted for this year’s inaugural award. The shortlisted works are: Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (Random House) Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Becoming Ms. […]

No water, no heat, no gas. Ear-splitting noise. Vibrations so hard they shake the pictures off the walls. Floorboards removed so you can see all the way through to the story below.  Landlords knocking on the door day and night, demanding that the apartment be vacated. Tenants and organizers at the Goddard Riverside Law Project […]

One wants to be a doctor. Another dreams of going to Disney World. One aims to be president of the United States (inspired, she says, by President Obama). And one wants to be a mermaid. Every child in the room had a goal. And Gabrielle Walter, better known as Miss New York 2017, wanted to […]

Names and identifying details in this story have been changed to protect privacy. At 6:30 on a warm, clear Wednesday morning, sleepers still occupy most of the stone benches in Columbus Circle. They slumber under cardboard, newspapers, or plastic sheeting. Most have a shirt or sweatshirt over their heads to block out the sun Ñ […]