Press Releases

Rare and Unique Partnership Will Help Human Services Sector Better Address New York City’s Most Pressing Issues, Including Homelessness, Public Safety Poverty, and Food Insecurity New York, NY — Today, Goddard Riverside and the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center announced a strategic partnership designed to deepen and enhance their service portfolios and impact across Upper […]

Contact: Trish Anderton, Director of Public Relations Goddard Riverside Community Center tanderton@goddard.org  (m): 929-249-1449  Event Details:    Wednesday, November 25 1-5 PM: Volunteers do meal prep  Thursday, November 26 7:30 AM – 2 PM: Meal prep and assembly 10:30-12: Meals go out for delivery  12-3: Meals available for pickup on-site Location: Goddard Riverside  593 Columbus Ave. (at 88th St.) Upper West Side, Manhattan New York, […]

Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection and For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World Win Goddard Riverside Social Justice Book Prizes Watch the announcement at our Annual Gala! For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World has won the inaugural Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for […]

Shortlists have been released for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice and the new Goddard Riverside / CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice. The winners of both prizes will be announced on October 29 online at the Goddard Riverside Annual Gala. The youth prize recognizes nonfiction books for children and […]

NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2020 / — As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance social services and provide the local community better access to fresh foods, Fairstead, a fully-integrated real estate firm committed to affordable housing, announced today that it has partnered with Down to Earth Farmers Markets and the Goddard Riverside nonprofit organization to host a farmers market on Saturday mornings […]

NEW YORK, August 10, 2020—The Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) secured a settlement in its lawsuit against an illegal hotel, whose operators agreed to stop using the property for any future short-term rental activity as well as pay $290,000 in fines and penalties. The Imperial Court Hotel, located at 307 West 79 St., was […]

May 22, 2020 Dear Council Members: As the executive director of Goddard Riverside, an organization serving more than 20,000 New Yorkers a year, I’m asking you to stand by the city’s most vulnerable residents in their hour of need. Goddard’s 27 programs serve currently and formerly homeless people, those living with mental illness, disadvantaged youth, […]

[New York, NY – December 20, 2019] Goddard Riverside has completed an agreement to become the sole owner of Phelps House, its affordable housing residence for older adults at 595 Columbus Avenue (and 88th Street). Goddard bought out an investor limited partner and refinanced the mortgage.  As a result, according to Stanley Heckman, board member […]

[New York, NY – December 20, 2019] Goddard Riverside has completed an agreement to become the sole owner of Phelps House, its affordable housing residence for older adults at 595 Columbus Avenue (and 88th Street). Goddard bought out an investor limited partner and refinanced the mortgage.  As a result, according to Stanley Heckman, board member […]

[NEW YORK CITY — October 22, 2019] Two exceptional books about violence and criminal justice in America have been named as co-winners of this year’s Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing by Jan Haldipur (NYU Press, 2018) and An American Summer: Love […]