“Here we go!” said Amber Batchelor of Ladies Who Hoop, climbing a stepladder at at Sol Bloom Park on a hot sunny morning. With a big smile, she tore the protective plastic from the first of two new backboards at the 91st Street park. Minutes later, youth from Goddard Riverside’s Beacon Program were playing basketball […]
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Summer Fun – and Learning, Too
SPLASH! A counselor pours a tub of water over children’s heads as they huddle together screaming and laughing. SPLAT! A water balloon bursts against the wall. SWOOSH! Children line up to dive head-first down slip-and-slides while hoses spray over them. On a sunny July day, campers at our Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center were beating the […]
Single Stop’s Dynamic Duo
It’s Tuesday and our Single Stop office on West 140th Street is bustling as always. In a cubicle toward the back of the long, narrow, sunlit room, financial counselor Ivonne Tarazona is asking a client questions — lots of questions — in her gentle but probing manner. “What do you do for breakfast? How about […]
Afro Roots Tuesdays Bring a World of Rhythm to Bernie Wohl Center
For updates on upcoming shows, email kevinmbira@hotmail.com to be added to the Afro Roots email list or join the Afro Roots Tuesdays group on Facebook. If Kevin Nathaniel could tell you just one thing about Afro Roots Tuesday it would be this: It’s not about drumming. “A lot of people get in their heads that […]
#DegreesNYC Summit Seeks to Put More Students on Path to Success
How can we ensure all New Yorkers have an equal shot at academic success beyond high school? That was the question on every mind at the second #DegreesNYC Citywide Summit. “We started two years ago by engaging the community,” Judith Lorimer of the Goddard Riverside Options Center told attendees. “What we heard is that there’s […]
Four Ways to Support Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Watching children romp at our Early Childhood Education Centers, you can see girls and boys playing in the same ways: building towers of blocks, splashing at the water table, rolling wooden trucks across the floor. But research shows that from an early age, children begin absorbing gender-based messages about which kinds of activities are right […]
Learn About Your Right to Free Counsel in Housing Court
New York is on its way to becoming the first city in the nation to guarantee low-income renters a lawyer in Housing Court. Studies have shown that tenants with a lawyer are less likely to be evicted than unrepresented tenants when going up against landlords in court. Right to Counsel, as it’s called, is being rolled out […]
A Fresh Start at TOP
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 […]
Chorus Takes Carnegie Hall
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 […]
Housing Clinic Helps New Yorkers Know Their Rights
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. […]