Press Releases

93-Year-Old NYC Artist has Spent Six Decades Fighting Stereotypes Through Painting

Career Retrospective opens March 1 at our Bernie Wohl Center  WHAT: Nancy Brandon Solo Exhibition “The Accidental Artist – Joy & Cohesion in Black Life” WHEN: March 1, 6-8 PM WHERE: Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center, 647 Columbus Avenue (between West 91st and 92nd) CONTACT: Trish Anderton, Sr. Director of PR, Goddard Riverside  tanderton@goddard.org | 929-249-1449  Nancy Brandon […]

City Council Members, Clubhouse Participants Rally to Save Mental Health Clubhouses

Council Members release letter calling for revisions in city plan  CONTACT: Trish Anderton, Goddard Riverside tanderton@goddard.org | 929-249-1449  [Jan. 3, 2024, New York City] Members of the NY City Council joined dozens of clubhouse participants this morning at a rally to save smaller mental health clubhouses in the city.  Mental health clubhouses are an essential source of […]

More than 1,000 Guests Enjoy Free Christmas Meals

Contact: Trish Anderton, Director of Public Relations, Goddard Riverside   tanderton@goddard.org | (m) 929-249-1449  New York, NY (December 25, 2023)— More than a thousand plates of turkey, cranberry sauce, veggies and gravy were served as Goddard Riverside celebrated its first sit-down Christmas meal since the start of COVID.   Hundreds of people ate at communal tables in […]

Indoor Dining Returns as Goddard Riverside Celebrates Community-Wide Thanksgiving 

EVENT: Free Thanksgiving Meal for the Community DATE: Thursday, November 23, 2023 TIME: Volunteers onsite 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM; Meals served noon – 3 PM LOCATION: Goddard Riverside, 593 Columbus Ave. (at 88th St.), Manhattan CONTACT: Trish Anderton, Senior Director of PR, tanderton@goddard.org | 929-249-1449 Cameras welcome; interviews with staff, volunteers and guests available After […]

Excluded, Food for Hope Win Goddard Riverside Social Justice Book Prizes

CONTACT: Trish Anderton, Director of PR, Goddard Riverside | tanderton@goddard.org | 929-249-1449 Images available on request Books about two pressing issues facing low-income New Yorkers—housing and hunger—have claimed Goddard Riverside’s 2023 book prizes. Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the Hungry by Jeff Gottesfeld [Creston Books] won the Goddard Riverside CBC Youth […]

“Changing the Odds” Summit Challenges NYC to Shatter the Barriers to Higher Ed

Event: Changing the Odds Summit Date and Time: September 27, 2023 from 9 AM to 1 PM Place: Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center, 647 Columbus Ave. (between 91st and 92nd) Hosts: #DegreesNYC and the Student Success Network Contact: Trish Anderton, tanderton@goddard.org | 929-249-1449 or fill out this form to register as a member of the […]

Rockabill Development, Goddard Riverside, and NYC HPD Close on $38 Million to Transform Illegal Upper West Side Hotel into Permanent Supportive Housing

Media Contacts: Kelly Magee [Rockabill]: kelly@rivetpr.com Trish Anderton [Goddard]: TAnderton@goddard.org Project Images: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/wgasy6ca0ay39eqj2gtb3/h?dl=0&rlkey=rlov3ndcq59sl69wtvcxp2tpe Rockabill Development, Goddard Riverside, and NYC HPD Close on $38 Million to Transform Illegal Upper West Side Hotel into Permanent Supportive Housing Deal marks the preservation and revival of Single Room Occupancies (SROs), a fundamental source of affordable housing for the most […]

Goddard Riverside Options Institute Launches Online College Access Training January 30, 2023 

Goddard Riverside Options Institute Launches Online College Access Training January 30, 2023  Contact: Trish Anderton, Director of Public Relations | tanderton@goddard.org | (m) 929-219-1449   Options Institute, Goddard Riverside’s college access training organization, is releasing its hallmark Foundations Course as a multi modal, resource rich, online learning system created specifically for school and Community Based Organization […]

“Sanctuary” and “Invisible Child” win Goddard Riverside Social Justice Book Prizes 

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, by Andrea Elliott (Random House) and Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women, by Christine McDonnell and Victoria Tentler-Krylov (Candlewick Press) have won Goddard Riverside’s 2022 social justice book prizes.  Invisible Child follows eight years in the life of Dasani, a […]

Shortlists Released for 2022 Social Justice Book Prizes

Learn more about our book prizes Ten compelling titles are shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice and the Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice. The winners of both prizes will be announced online on October 13.  The Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, […]