Press Releases

Shortlists Announced for Social Justice Book Prizes

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 […]

Goddard Riverside Partners with Fairstead and Down to Earth Farmers Markets to Launch New Market in Harlem

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 […]

Testimony of Executive Director Roderick L. Jones on the City Budget

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, […]

Goddard Riveride Closes Deal to Secure Future of its Older Adult Housing

[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 […]

Goddard Riverside Closes Deal to Secure Future of its Older Adult Housing

[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 […]

Shortlist Released for Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize

[NEW YORK CITY — October 1, 2019] Goddard Riverside is delighted to announce that six titles have been shortlisted for its Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. The award, now in its third year, celebrates the power of the written word to create change in the name of justice for all. “These books not […]

Manhattan Tenants Serve One of Worst Evictors with Eviction Notice

CONTACT: Trish Anderton, Goddard Riverside tanderton@goddard.org212-873-6600 x1023929-249-1449 Some 40 tenant activists and allies served Larry Gluck of Stellar Management, one of Manhattan’s Worst Evictors, with an “eviction notice” today at a boisterous rally outside his 156 William St. offices. Over a recent two and a half year period, Stellar filed 630 lawsuits in an area of […]