CHAIRMAN MAJORITY MEMBER DISTRICT OFFICE: JUDICIARY 322 EIGHTH AVENUE, SUITE 1700 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10001 PHONE: (212) 633-8052 COMMITTEES FAX: (212) 633-8096 CITIES ALBANY OFFICE: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS ROOM 310 LEGISLATIVE OFFICE BUILDING & RECREATION ALBANY, NEW YORK 12247 FINANCE SENATOR PHONE: (518) 455-2451 BRAD HOYLMAN FAX (518) 426-6846 HEALTH 27TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT e-mail: RULES STATE OF NEW YORK [email protected]

website: hoylman.nysenate.gov

July 2019

Dear Neighbor:

Our senior citizens made our neighborhoods the wonderful places they are today, so we owe it to them to provide support to help improve their lives. I’m proud to present this Senior Resource Guide for residents of the 27th Senate District of New York. This guide will help seniors identify important benefits, services and information available right here in the community so that their physical, social and economic needs are met.

I hope that you’ll find this guide useful when making decisions and planning for the future for you or a loved one. If you have any questions or comments, I encourage you to call me at 212-633-8052.

Sincerely,

Brad Hoylman State Senator 27th Senate District

Office of New York State Senator Brad Hoylman 322 8th Avenue, Suite 1700 New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 633-8052 Fax: (212) 633-8096 Email: [email protected] We have done our best to make this guide as complete and accurate as possible. Yet, in a city as dynamic and vibrant as ours, we may have missed useful resources. It is also common for organizations to move, change phone numbers, or close entirely. If there are additional resources or changes you feel should be included in the next edition of this guide, please feel free to contact Senator Hoylman’s office at 212-633-8052 or [email protected].

The information in this publication is provided as a resource for seniors and their caregivers in , but is not intended as an endorsement of any organization or service. Table of Contents

Important Numbers & Hotlines...... 1 Government Agencies...... 2 Advocacy & Action Groups...... 6 Benefits...... 11 Caregiver Support...... 14 Case Management & Social Services...... 17 Cultural & Recreational Activities...... 20 Community Boards...... 23 Companion Services...... 24 Consumer Protection...... 26 Continuing Education...... 27 Employment & Volunteer Opportunities...... 30 Financial & Tax Assistance...... 32 Hoarding...... 34 Hospitals & Healthcare...... 35 Housing...... 38 Legal Assistance...... 42 LGBT Services...... 46 Local Pharmacies ...... 48 Long-Term Care...... 49 Medical Marijuana...... 51 Nutrition & Food Assistance...... 52 NYPD Police Precincts...... 60 Opioid Addiction Resources...... 62 Pet Care...... 63 Senior Centers...... 64 Technology...... 69 Transportation...... 71 Veterans...... 73

Important Numbers Crime Victim Hotline: & Hotlines (212) 577-7777, (800) 689-4357 In case of an emergency, please call 9-1-1. Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 621-4673 Police, Fire or Ambulance: 9-1-1 Emergency Shelter: 3-1-1 Gamblers Anonymous Hotline: (855) 222-5542 National Runaway Safeline: (800) 786-2929 Homeless Hotline: (800) 994-6494, New York State Division (212) 533-5151 of Human Rights: Hunger Hotline: (718) 741-8400 (866) 888-8777 Equal Employment Immigration Hotline: Opportunity Commission: (800) 669-4000 (212) 419-3737, (TTY: (800) 669-6820) (800) 566-7636 Narcotics Anonymous: AIDS Hotline: (800) 541-AIDS (212) 929-6262 En Español: (800) 233-7432 Poison Control: Alcoholics Anonymous: (800) 222-1222 (212) 647-1680 Rape & Sexual Assault Hotline: Battered Women Hotline: (212) 423-2140, (718) 499-2151 (212) 227-3000 Centers for Disease Control Runaway Hotline: and Prevention: (800) 786-2929, (800) 232-4636 (800) RUN-AWAY Child Abuse Hotline: Suicide Hotline: (800) 342-3720 (800) 273-8255

1 Government Agencies New York City Department for the Aging th Call 3-1-1 2 , 7 Floor to access any city agency. New York, NY 10007 (212) 442-1100 Mayor’s Office for People with TTY: (212) 504-4115 Disabilities Call 3-1-1 or the following help 100 Gold Street, 2nd Floor line: (800) 342-9871 New York, NY 10038 www.nyc.gov/aging (212) 788-2830 TTY: (212) 788-2838 New York City Department of www.nyc.gov/mopd Veteran’s Services (DVS) Call 3-1-1 New York Board of Elections www1.nyc.gov/site/veterans/ New York State: index.page https://www.elections.ny.gov/ New York County: New York City Mayor’s Office https://www.elections.ny.gov/ of Operations countyboards.html 253 , 10th Floor New York City: New York, NY 10007 http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/ (212) 788-1400 home/home.shtml Visit the websites listed Office of Operations: IDNYC above for information about Call 3-1-1 for more information voter registration forms and and Enrollment Centers. deadlines, absentee ballots, www.nyc.gov/idnyc election dates, and district maps. IDNYC is a government-issued identification card that is New York City Commission on available to all City residents Human Rights aged 14 or older. Immigration 22 Reade St., 1st Floor status does not matter. New York, NY 10007 Applicants must complete an (212) 306-7450 application and submit it at To file a discrimination an IDNYC Enrollment Center. complaint call: 3-1-1 or (718) Applicants are also required to 722-3131 present proof of identity and www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/ residency in New York City. index.page Cards are valid for five years from the date the application 2 is approved. The application 366 West 31st Street process is accessible to people New York, NY 10001 with limited English proficiency (212) 645-5550 and people with disabilities. The NYS DMV issues driver’s licenses, permits and New York New York State Attorney State non-driver ID cards. You General can also get information about 28 Liberty Street insurance and driver safety, and New York, NY 10005 register to vote. (212) 416-8000 Hotline: (800) 771-7755 New York State Division www.ag.ny.gov of Homes and Community The Attorney General assists Renewal (HCR) New Yorkers with a variety offices: of legal issues including 641 consumer rights, public health, New York, NY 10022 environmental issues, civil Or rights, and workers’ rights. 25 Beaver Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10004 New York State (866) ASK-DHCR / (866) 275- Department of Health 3427 Riverview Center http://www.nyshcr.org/ 150 Broadway, Suite 355 HCR is the state agency Albany, NY 12204 responsible for administering (518) 402-0836 rent regulation laws. HCR www.health.ny.gov publishes Fact Sheets that The New York State Department describe major elements of rent of Health is the department of control and rent stabilization. the New York State government The organization is also responsible for public health. responsible for mitigating tenant The organization also provides concerns, processing complaints information and resources against landlords, offering regarding New York State’s rent reduction programs, and Medical Marijuana Program, providing legal protection for which you can learn more about renters. by calling (866) 811–7957. New York State Department of New York State Division Motor Vehicles (DMV) of Human Rights, Age Local DMV: Discrimination 3 Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building The Department for the Aging: 163 West , 4th Floor Alzheimer’s and Caregiver New York, NY 10027 Resource Center (212) 961-8650 2 Lafayette Street General number: (718) 741-8300 New York, NY 10007 Age Discrimination Help Line: Call 3-1-1 (800) 342-9871 www.nyc.gov/html/dfta/html/ https://dhr.ny.gov/ caregiver/alzheimer.shtml Whether you are applying for a The Alzheimer’s and Caregiver loan, applying for a job or if you Resource Center of the New experience age discrimination, York City Department for the contact the NYS Division of Aging provides a variety of Human Rights. services that are free and strictly confidential. These include New York State Division of individual assessments, referrals Veterans’ Affairs - Regional to medical diagnostic centers, Office community-based services 2 Empire State Plaza, 17th Floor and support groups, referral to Albany, NY 12223 community services, education (888) 838-7697 and training, entitlement www.veterans.ny.gov counseling, assistance with the nursing home placement New York State process, and information on Office for the Aging housing alternatives such as 2 Empire State Plaza assisted living Albany, NY 12223-1251 (800) 342-9871 Social Security Card Center: www.aging.ny.gov Manhattan 123 William Street, 3rd Floor NYS Office of State New York, NY 10038 Comptroller (800) 772-1213 59 Social Security is a social New York, NY 10038 insurance program consisting NYC Office: (212) 383-1600 of retirement, disability, and Albany Office: (518) 474-4044 survivors’ benefits. Seniors are Email: [email protected] eligible for retirement benefits www.ny.gov/agencies/office-state- if they are aged 61 years and comptroller 9 months or older and are not 4 currently receiving benefits from their own Social Security.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging Regional Support Center: 26 Federal Plaza, Room 38-102 New York, NY 10278 (212) 264-2976 www.aoa.gov

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office: 245 West New York, NY 10038 (800) 827-1000 Hours: 8:30am - 4pm (Monday - Friday) For a list of NYC Veterans centers, see the section of this guide titled “Veterans.”

U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) (800) 772-1213 TTY: (800) 325-0778 www.ssa.gov

5 Advocacy & Action CIDNY, New York State Long Term Care Ombudsman Groups Program In this section, you will find a 841 Broadway Suite 301, list of community organizations New York, NY 10003 that are committed to (212) 812-2901 advocating for the needs of The mission of this organization older adults. is to improve the quality of life for seniors and those Alzheimer’s Foundation disabled needing long term of America care. CIDNY’s Ombudsmen 322 Eighth Avenue, Fl. 7 work with residents of those in New York, NY 10001 nursing homes, assisted living (866) 232-8484 facilities, and family type homes www.alzfdn.org to advocate for their rights, their The Alzheimer’s Foundation of needs, and resolution of any America (AFA) provides care complaints they may have. and services to individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and related illnesses and to their Citizens Committee for NYC families and caregivers. They 77 Water Street, Suite 202, have a toll-free helpline where New York, NY 10005 you can speak with a social (212) 822-9592 worker. www.citizensnyc.org Citizens Committee for NYC American Association of is an action group that strives Retired Persons (AARP) to improve the quality of life 750 , 31st Floor for New York residents. The New York, NY 10017 organization provides grant (866) 227-7442 money and project support www.aarp.org/about-aarp for visions such as community The AARP Foundation is a gardens and free music charitable organization that workshops. helps people aged 50 or older with issues such as hunger, Community Service Society income, housing, and isolation. (CSS) They provide both direct 105 East 22nd Street assistance and work as legal New York, NY 10010 advocates for the rights of the (212) 254-8900 elderly. www.cssny.org 6 CSS seeks to fight poverty (GNYHCFA) in New York both through 519 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor advocacy efforts and by offering New York, NY 10018 programs and services to low- Phone: (212) 643-2828 income New Yorkers. CSS works Fax: (212) 643-2956 on issues including access to www.gnyhcfa.org health care, affordable housing, GNYHCFA is a non-profit trade disconnected youth, economic association serving the long- security, imprisonment and term care needs of individuals reentry, and workforce equality. living in the greater New York CSSNY: Retired and Senior metropolitan area and beyond. Volunteer Program (RSVP) GNYHCFA offers resources RSVP provides volunteer centered on safety, education, opportunities for those 55 legal services, long-term care, and older to serve the needs Medicaid, labor relations, and of the community and bolster more. nonprofit agencies. Hearing Loss Association DFTA, Center for of America (NY Downstate Independence of the Disabled, Chapter) NY (CIDNY): NY Connects P.O. Box 602 Program Radio City Station 841 Broadway Suite 301 New York, NY 10101 New York, NY 10003 (212) 769-4327 (800) 342-9871 http://www.hearingloss.org/ NY Connects is a free program The Hearing Loss Association that serves as a liaison for of America advocates for those New Yorkers with disabilities with hearing loss through public to connect them to resources policy campaigning, and local that assist with long-term chapters connect individuals care needs. NY Connects experiencing hearing loss with Benefits counselors provide resources. peer-centered support to help New Yorkers make informed JASA’s Institute for Senior decisions regarding services and Action (IFSA) care. 247 West 37th Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10018 Greater New York Health (212) 273-5272 Care Facilities Association www.jasa.org/advocacy/ifsa 7 IFSA is a 10-week program that the elderly of New York that offers training in advocacy City receive quality services and social action. Prominent by helping senior service government, non-profit, and organizations build their community leaders aid students capacity to provide superior to engage in city-wide issues, programs and services through learn community organization advocacy, training, innovative skills, take action in their programming, and the exchange community, and understand the of ideas. legislative process in NYC, NY State, and Washington D.C. Medicare Rights Center 520 Eighth Avenue, North Wing, JASA’s Joint Public Affairs 3rd Floor Committee (JPAC) New York, NY 10018 Hotline: (800) 333-4114 247 West 37th Street, 9th Floor (212) 869-3850 New York, NY 10018 www.medicarerights.org (212) 273-5260 The Medicare Rights Center is www.jasa.org/advocacy/jpac a national, non-profit consumer JPAC is an advocacy coalition service organization that works of adults aged 55 or older that with people on Medicare to promotes leadership and civic help them understand their engagement. JPAC enables rights and benefits and ensure members to take action and that they have access to quality advocate on important issues in healthcare. different communities. Annual fees are $20 per individual, $35 Metropolitan Council on per couple. Housing 339 Lafayette Street, #301 LiveOn NY (Formerly Council New York, NY 10012 of Senior Centers) Rights Hotline: (212) 979-0611 49 West 45th Street, 7th Floor Monday, Wednesday, and New York, NY 10036 Friday, 1:30pm - 5pm (212) 398-6565 www.metcouncilonhousing.org www.cscs-ny.org Metropolitan Council on LiveOn NY is comprised of Housing is a membership-based over 100 senior service agencies tenants’ advocacy organization that serve over 300,000 senior that preserves and expands citizens throughout New York affordable housing and rent City. Their goal is to ensure regulation. 8 The New York Academy of New York, NY 10016 Medicine: Healthy Aging (917) 535-0457 Program (NYAM) www.graypanthersnyc.org 1216 Gray Panthers is a national New York, NY 10029 organization committed to civic (212) 822-7200 participation in achieving social www.nyam.org/urban-health/ and economic justice and peace. healthy-aging Gray Panthers work together NYAM works to address a to work to create a humane variety of urban health issues society and eliminate injustice, through research, policy discrimination, and ageism by leadership, and community advocating for a single-payer, engagement. Their Healthy universal health care system, Aging Program seeks to create protecting the environment, and environments, policies, and promoting international human programs that will allow older rights. adults in New York City to live longer, healthier lives and New York State Coalition for stay fully engaged in their the Aging (NYSCA) communities. 1450 West Avenue, Suite 101 Albany, NY 12203 New York Connects (NYSOA) (518) 765-2790 11 Park Place, Suite 1110 www.coalitionforaging.org New York, NY 10007 NYSCA provides advocacy, (212) 962-2720 professional development, NY Connects emphasizes leadership skills, and community-based services and education for individuals and a person-centered approach organizations serving older to providing information adults. They work to strengthen and assistance for aging and expand community-based New Yorkers needing long services and help older adults term services and support. live independently in their The program also highlights homes with the necessary public education, Long Term support services. Care Councils, and options counseling. New York StateWide Senior Action Council, Inc. New York Gray Panthers 275 244 , Suite 396 Albany, NY 12210 9 (518) 436-1006 use. The organization works Helpline: (800) 333-4374 with community stakeholders www.nysenior.org to disseminate information New York StateWide Senior on health literacy and offers Action Council is a grassroots trainings to professionals to membership organization made integrate health literacy into up of individual senior citizens their work. and senior citizen clubs from all parts of New York State. They ThriveNYC provide direct services through (888) 692-9355 their Patients Rights Helpline or (888) NYC-WELL and counseling services, as well ThriveNYC is a city initative to as work on raising community end the stigma associated with awareness about senior issues mental health and help people find and advocating for seniors’ legal treatment options. They offer a confidential and free phone service rights. to connect you to a counselor if you are in crisis. ThriveNYC offers New York State Tenants & Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Neighbors Coalition trainings as well. 236 W. 27th Street, #400 New York, NY 10001 (212) 608-4320 www.tenantsandneighbors.org New York State Tenants & Neighbors Coalition preserves at-risk affordable housing and strengthens tenants’ rights in gentrifying neighborhoods throughout New York.

Say Ah! 450 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011-1340 (866) 355-0646 www.say-ah.org Say Ah! strives to give patients the skills to navigate their health and make health services easier to access and 10 Benefits questions to help identify Older adults are eligible for a eligible benefits for adults variety of benefits, ranging from aged 55 or older. The types of tax relief to health insurance expenses you may be eligible programs. You can reach out to to get help with include these organizations to determine medications, food, utilities, if you are eligible for the benefits legal, health care, housing, they offer. in-home services, taxes, transportation, and employment Access NYC training. Call 3-1-1 www.access.nyc.gov Benefits.gov Access NYC is a free online www.benefits.gov service that helps you determine The website’s core function your eligibility and apply for is the eligibility prescreening city, state, and federal health questionnaire, or “Benefit human service benefit programs. Finder.” The questionnaire It provides information on how includes criteria for more than to apply for benefits, where to 1,000 federally funded benefit go, and what documents are and assistance programs. Each required. program description provides citizens with the next steps to Assurance Wireless Lifeline apply for any benefit program of Program interest. P.O. Box 5040 Charleston, IL 61920-9907 Disabled Homeowner (888) 321-5880 Exemption (DHE) www.assurancewireless.com/ Manhattan Business Center Public/Welcome.aspx 66 John Street, 2nd Floor Assurance Wireless Lifeline is a New York, NY 10038 benefit program supported by Call 3-1-1 the federal Universal Service www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ Fund. benefits/landlords-dhe.page DHE provides property tax BenefitsCheckUp exemptions to disabled owners www.benefitscheckup.org of one, two, and three family This free service from the houses, condominiums, or National Council on Aging cooperative apartments. At least (NCOA) asks a series of one homeowner must have a 11 documented mental or physical EPIC is a New York State disability and the combined assistance program that helps income of all owners cannot be seniors pay for their prescription more than $37,399. drugs.

Disabled Rent Increase Medicare Rights Center Exemption (DRIE) - NYC Rent 520 Eighth Avenue, North Wing Freeze Program 3rd Floor Manhattan Business Center New York, NY 10018 66 John Street, 2nd Floor (212) 869-3850 New York, NY 10038 National helpline: (800) 333-4114 Call 3-1-1 www.medicare.gov https://www1.nyc.gov/ Medicare is a national social nyc-resources/service/1522/ insurance program that disability-rent-increase- guarantees access to health exemption-drie-program insurance for Americans aged 65 DRIE offers tenants who or older. qualify to have their rent frozen at their current level Senior Citizen Homeowners and be exempt from future Exemption (SCHE) rent increases. Tenants must Manhattan Business Center have a total annual income of 66 John Street, 2nd Floor $50,000 or less, spend more New York, NY 10038 than 1/3 of their monthly Call 3-1-1 household income on rent, and www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ receive Federal Supplemental benefits/landlords-sche.page Security Income, Federal Social SCHE provides a property tax Security Disability Insurance, exemption for senior citizens U.S. Department of Veterans aged 65 or older who own one, Affairs disability pension or two, or three family homes, compensation, or disability- condominiums, or cooperative related Medicaid. apartments.

Elderly Pharmaceutical Senior Citizen Rent Increase Insurance Coverage (EPIC) Exemption (SCRIE) - NYC Rent 2 Lafayette Street Freeze Program New York, NY 10007 66 John Street, 3rd Floor (800) 332-3742 New York, NY 10038 www.health.ny.gov/health_ Call 3-1-1 care/epic www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/ 12 service/2424/senior-citizen- Veterans’ Tax Exemption rent-increase-exemption-scrie Manhattan Business Center SCRIE offers eligible individuals 66 John Street, 2nd Floor aged 62 or older exemptions New York, NY 10038 from some or all increases in Call 3-1-1 rent. You may qualify for SCRIE www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ if you have a total household benefits/landlords-veterans. income of $50,000 annually, page pay more than one-third of Veterans’ Tax Exemption is a your household’s total monthly partial property tax exemption income in rent, and live in a available to property owners rent-controlled, rent-stabilized, who served in the Persian Gulf or Mitchell-Lama apartment. War, the Vietnam War, the Please note that, unfortunately, Korean War, World War II, or NYCHA and Section 8 tenants World War I. are not eligible for SCRIE.

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Waverly Location: 12 West , 4th Floor New York, NY 10011 (212) 352-2519 www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ supplemental-nutrition- assistance-program-snap SNAP provides food support to low-income New Yorkers.

STAR (New York State School Tax Relief Program) Call 3-1-1 www.tax.ny.gov/star/ The Enhanced STAR exemption provides savings on school district taxes for New York State homeowners aged 65 and over with qualifying incomes.

13 Caregiver Support services, benefits and entitlements assistance, These organizations assist caregiver assistance, case individuals caring for elderly management and counseling, adults or grandparents who elder abuse assistance, are caring for young children. home care, housing, Jewish Services range from respite programming, legal assistance, care to support groups and meals, mental health services, counseling. naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs), senior Home Instead Senior Care centers, and more. 400 East 56th Street Professional Wing, Suite 2 Lighthouse Guild New York, NY 10022 250 West 64th Street (212) 614-8057 New York, NY 10023 www.homeinstead.com/368/ (800) 284-4422 aboutus/Pages/AboutUs.aspx The Lighthouse Guild provides Home Instead Senior Care is a services for individuals who fully licensed, full-service home are blind or visually impaired, care service agency with the including adult day health New York State Department care, mental health care, of Health. They provide a career development and job variety of services, such as placement, adaptive technology companionship, home-helpers, programs, and a low vision personal services, respite care, rehabilitation clinic where you Alzheimer’s care, and short- can take a low vision exam and term recovery. consult with optometrists or ophthalmologists. Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) NYC Caregiver 247 West 37th Street 2 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10018 New York, NY 10007 (212) 273-5272 Call 3-1-1 www.jasa.org www1.nyc.gov/html/ JASA is one of New York’s caregiver/gettinghelp_1.html largest agencies serving NYC Caregiver provides older adults. They provide resources to find local caregiver comprehensive services, support services and can help including adult protective answer many questions in 14 regard to caring for physically outreach, public information, frail or cognitively impaired support groups, training, adults aged 60 or older or to individual respite, and many grandparents caring for children others. aged 18 or younger. People Care New York Foundation 116 West 32nd Street for Senior Citizens Home New York, NY 10001 Attendant Services (212) 631-7300 11 Park Place, 14th Floor http://www.peoplecare.com New York, NY 10007 Home-care agency licensed by (212) 962-7559 the NYS Department of Health. Email: [email protected] They match patients with home http://www.nyfsc.org/ health aides and registered services/support_homeattend. nurses. html The New York Foundation Presbyterian Senior Services for Senior Citizens Home (PSS), Circle of Care Attendant Services, which 2095 Broadway #409 is licensed by the New York New York, NY 10023 State Department of Health, (212) 874-6633 offers home health, personal www. pssusa.org care, medication monitoring, PSS Circle of Care provides free cooking, and other services and confidential professional as well as companionship to support to NYC family appointments. members caring for an adult with Alzheimer’s disease, other Partners in Caring at SAGE dementias, or for a chronically 305 Seventh Avenue ill or frail loved one. New York, NY 10001 (212) 741-2247 Visions Caregiver Program Hours: 9am – 5pm 500 , 3rd Floor (Monday - Friday) New York, NY 10013 The Partners in Caring (212) 625-1616 program at SAGE provides Hours: 9am - 5pm various services to families (Monday - Friday) and caregivers of the elderly. www.visionsvcb.org/visions/ Services include counseling, programs/caregiver

15 The Caregiver Program at Visions provides services to caregivers who are assisting older adults aged 60 years or older who are blind or visually impaired and grandparents aged 55 years or older who are the primary caregivers for a child under the age of 18 when either the grandparent or the child is blind or visually impaired.

16 Case Management & specializes in elder abuse safety planning, security device Social Services installation, counseling, housing Many local organizations and family court advocacy, legal provide older adults with case advice, community education, management services, which and coordination with the can help with a wide variety police. of issues such as housing, healthcare, and financial DOROT th management. 171 West 85 Street New York, NY 10024 The Actors Senior Care (212) 769-2850 Program www.dorotusa.org DOROT is an organization 729 Seventh Avenue, 10th floor that alleviates social isolation New York, NY 10019 among the elderly and (212) 221-7300 provides services such as www.actorsfund.org/services- friendly visiting, door-to-door and-programs/senior-services transportation, meal delivery, The Actors Senior Care wellness programs, and others. Program helps entertainment industry professionals aged 65 Federation of Protestant years or older, their families, Welfare Agencies and caregivers with services 40 , 5th Floor including assessment, advocacy, New York, NY 10004 access to entitlements or other (212) 777-4800 benefits, financial management http://www.fpwa.org and assistance, and referrals to The Federation of Protestant general information. Welfare Agencies has been a social services resource for 90 Carter Burden Network: years, meeting the needs of Community Elder New Yorkers and supporting Mistreatment Abuse the agencies that deliver human Prevention Program (CEMAPP) services in our city. 415 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 Hartley House th (212) 879-7400 413 West 46 Street Hours: 9am - 5pm New York, NY 10036 (Monday - Friday) (212) 246-9885 The Carter Burden Network www.hartleyhouse.org 17 The HOPE program at Hartley seniors remain safe and as House provides clients aged 62 independent as possible years or older living between within their own homes and West 34th and West 59th Streets communities by providing and between Twelfth and Fifth supportive service programs, Avenues with comprehensive including housing alternatives, case management support home sharing, repair and safety including assistance with services, free transportation, benefits, financial management, ombudsman program, senior referrals for legal assistance, centers, intergenerational elder abuse, and mental health activities, and a senior theater and social resources. enrichment program. Safe Horizon Met Council on Jewish Poverty 2 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor 120 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, NY 10007 New York, NY 10271 (212) 577-7700 (212) 453-9500 Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) Email: [email protected] 621-4673 http://www.metcouncil.org www.safehorizon.org Met Council supports families, Safe Horizon provides support, seniors, and adults living in prevents violence and promotes poverty and near poverty. They justice for victims of crime provide immediate assistance to and abuse, their families, and New Yorkers in crisis and create communities. pathways to self-sufficiency through a variety of programs, Selfhelp Community Services including a kosher food pantry, 520 Eighth Avenue emergency social services, New York, NY 10018 family violence services, home (866) 735-1234 repairs, benefits enrollment, and www.selfhelp.net affordable housing. Selfhelp helps seniors age in peace with its comprehensive, New York Foundation for personalized private care Senior Citizens management program. Selfhelp 11 Park Place, 14th Floor offers case management for New York, NY 10007-2801 Adult Protective Services (APS) (212) 962-7559 clients; Alzheimer’s and HIV/ www.nyfsc.org AIDS support; and Nazi victim NYFSC is dedicated to helping services. 18 Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) 305 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor New York, NY 10001 (212) 741-2247 www.sageusa.org SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources for LGBT older adults and their caregivers. Services include case management, caregiver support, benefits counseling, employment assistance, veterans assistance and arts, fitness, and nutritional classes.

19 Cultural & (212) 570-3600 http://whitney.org/ Recreational Activities Admission for seniors is $17 NYC houses many cultural online and $18 at the museum. institutions, some to which Closed Tuesdays. seniors receive reduced or free admission. This list highlights Recreational and Fitness museums, recreational and Activities: fitness activities, and centers The High Line with pools in the district. http://www.thehighline.org/ activities Museums: Built on an abandoned railroad, Merchant’s House Museum the High Line is an elevated 29 East Fourth Street park that stretches from 34th New York, NY 10003 Street between 10th and 12th (212) 777-1089 Avenues down to 12th Street. http://merchantshouse.org/ The High Line now hosts a $10 admission for seniors number of activities, events, and classes including Tai Chi, Museum at the Fashion meditation, gentlemen’s boxing, Institute of Technology and more. Seventh Avenue at 27th Street New York, NY 10001 NYC Parks Free admission. NYC Parks offers a number of Closed Sundays and Mondays. senior membership discounts at recreation centers and Rubin Museum of Art indoor pools as well as fitness 150 West 17th Street programming for seniors. For New York, NY 10011 more information on recreation (212) 620-5000 center membership, visit the $10 for seniors, free for seniors following website: https:// first Monday of the month, free www.nycgovparks.org/ every Friday from 6 pm-10 pm. programs/recreation-centers/ membership Whitney Museum of American Art New York Road Runners 99 Gansevoort Street (NYRR) Striders New York, NY 10014 (646) 758-9650

20 Email: [email protected] 232 West 60th Street www.nyrr.org/run/striders New York, NY 10023 The New York Road Runners (212) 397-3159 (NYRR) Striders program offers free and fun group walking The Sports Center sessions led by a certified coach at Chelsea Piers every week in senior centers, 20th Street parks and neighborhood and Hudson River Park facilities throughout New York New York, NY 10011 City. Striders is geared toward (212) 336-6000 older adults and is focused on https://www.chelseapiers.com/ making walking and fitness gym/membership/overview/ more accessible. Call them or senior/ check out their website for their Senior memberships are schedule of classes. available, which include fitness classes, personal training, and Recreation centers with pools: access to facilities. Asser Levy Recreation Center 392 Asser Levy Place Tony Dapolito Recreation New York, NY 10010 Center (212) 447-2020 or (212) 447-2023 1 Clarkson Street New York, NY 10014 The City Parks Foundation (646) 300-2271 830 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10065 Theater and Arts: (212) 360-1399 Greenwich House Pottery http://www. 16 cityparksfoundation.org/ New York, NY 10014 sports/seniors-fitness/ (212) 242-4106 The City Parks Foundation runs Email: pottery@greenwichhouse. free Senior Fitness programs. org Information on how to register http://www.greenwichhouse. can be found on their website. org/gh_pottery/index To learn more or to register by The Greenwich House offers phone, you can call the number pottery classes for all levels. above. Mind the Gap at New York Gertrude Ederle Recreation Theatre Workshop Center 79 East 21 New York, NY 10003 (212) 780-9037 ext. 9575 Email: [email protected] Mind the Gap is a free workshop in which half of the participants are aged 60 years or older, and half are teenagers aged 14 – 18 years. Over the course of 10 sessions, participants from each age group work in pairs to interview each other and write a play inspired by their partner’s personal stories. To apply for the program, visit https:// www.nytw.org/mind-the-gap- application/

NYC-ARTS (Cultural Guide for Seniors) https://www.nyc-arts.org/ collections/162/nyc-arts- cultural-guide-for-seniors- manhattan Available online, NYC-ARTS compiles a cultural guide for seniors with a list of organizations in Manhattan that offer senior programming and discounts.

Theatre Development Fund (TDF) Email: [email protected] (212) 912-9770 https://www.tdf.org/nyc/79/ Proof-of-Eligibility TDF’s membership program provides discounted tickets to theatrical productions. Retirees aged 62 years or older are eligible. 22 Community Boards www.nyc.gov/html/mancb4/ html/home/home.shtml Being a New Yorker means playing an active role in shaping Manhattan Community Board 5 your local communities, and one Neighborhoods: Midtown way to do this is to get involved 450 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2109 with your local community New York, NY 10123 board. The following list (212) 465-0907 contains community boards in Email: [email protected] our district. www.cb5.org

Manhattan Community Board 2 Manhattan Community Board 6 Neighborhoods: Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods: Stuyvesant Town, West Village, NoHo, SoHo, Lower Tudor City, Turtle Bay, Peter East Side, Chinatown, Little Italy Cooper Village, Murray Hill, 3 Washington Square Village, , Kips Bay, Sutton Apt. 1A Place New York, NY 10012 866 UN Plaza, Suite 308 (212) 979-2272 New York, NY 10017 Email: [email protected] (212) 319-3750 www.nyc.gov/html/mancb2/ Email: [email protected] html/home/home.shtml www.cbsix.org

Manhattan Community Board 3 Manhattan Community Board 7 Neighborhoods: Tompkins Square, Neighborhoods: Manhattan Valley, East Village, , , Lincoln Square Chinatown, Two Bridges th 250 West 87th Street 59 East 4 Street New York, NY 10024 New York, NY 10003 (212) 362-4008 (212) 533-5300 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.nyc.gov/html/mancb7/ www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/ html/home/home.shtml html/home/home.shtml

Manhattan Community Board 4 Neighborhoods: Clinton, Chelsea 330 West , Suite 2618 New York, NY 10036 (212) 736-4536 Email: [email protected]

23 Companion Services support group meetings every other month. Volunteers from the organizations in this section Senior Helpers visit seniors in their homes to 353 West 48th Street provide companionship and to New York, NY 10036 offer assistance with shopping, (646) 214-2086 errands, and appointments. www.seniorhelpers.com Senior Helpers’ mission is to Settlement Senior ensure a better quality of life for Companion Program elderly clients and their families 265 Henry Street during the aging process by New York, NY 10002 providing dependable and (212) 477-0455 affordable in-home, non- www.henrystreet.org/ medical care. Services offered programs/senior-services/ include companion care, light senior-companion-program. housekeeping, and Alzheimer’s html and dementia care. Senior Companions are older adults who help homebound or Visiting Neighbors isolated seniors aged 55 years 3 Washington Square Village or older to live independently. Suite 1F Services include visits, New York, NY 10012 shopping assistance, medication (212) 260-6200 reminders, escort services, www.visitingneighbors.org help with connecting to senior Visiting Neighbors serves services, and companionship. seniors aged 60 years or older in SAGE Friendly Visitor Program , south of 30th 305 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor Street, from the East River to the New York, NY 10001 Hudson. Volunteer visitors help (646) 576-8669 seniors avoid loneliness and www.sageusa.org/nyc/social- isolation. They escort seniors to visitor.cfm and from medical appointments The SAGE Friendly Visitor and assist them with errands program matches volunteers and shopping. Additional from the community with programs at Visiting Neighbors LGBT seniors. Friendly Visitor include health advocacy, volunteers visit once a week for socialization opportunities, and one to two hours and make calls case assistance for the “oldest between visits. They also attend elderly.” 24 Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) (800) 675-0391 www.vnsny.org VNSNY offers resources to deliver a full range of home- and community-based health care services, including skilled nursing, home health aides, companionship services, social work, physical, speech, occupational therapy, community mental health services, and advanced illness and end-of-life care.

25 Consumer Protection consumer-frauds-bureau The NYS Attorney General State and city agencies provide Consumer Fraud Bureau works information to ensure that New with individual consumers to Yorkers use safe products and mediate complaints and enforce avoid consumer fraud. They a fair marketplace. The Bureau also field consumer complaints. also prosecutes businesses and individuals in illegal trade NYC Department of Consumer practices. Affairs 42 Broadway, 9th Floor New York State Division of New York, New York 10004 Consumer Protection Call 3-1-1 123 William Street www1.nyc.gov/site/dca New York, NY 10038-3804 The Department of Consumer (800) 697-1220 (General) Affairs (DCA) is the largest (800) 503-9000 (Senior municipal consumer protection Information Hotline) agency in the country, licensing www.dos.ny.gov/ 80,000 businesses across 55 consumerprotection different industries. They The NYS Division of Consumer inspect businesses, mediate Protection offers protection consumer complaints, and to New Yorkers by resolving help New Yorkers manage complaints through mediation, and protect their money. For a enforcing the NYS Do Not Call list of all the complaints DCA Law, representing ratepayers, addresses, please check the and educating consumers in referral list on the following the marketplace. They offer website: www1.nyc.gov/ information related to consumer assets/dca/downloads/ alerts and recalls, identity pdf/consumers/Consumers- theft and privacy, Do Not Call ReferralList.pdf registries, product safety, and utilities. The division hosts New York State Attorney a monthly toll-free “Senior General Consumer Fraud Consumer Information Line,” Bureau which allows seniors statewide 28 Liberty Street to access free information they New York, NY 10005 can use to stay safe, maximize (800) 771-7755 their independence, and www.ag.ny.gov/bureau/ improve their everyday lives. 26 Continuing Education semi-retired people by providing an educational Many institutions in New York and social environment. The City allow seniors to enroll peer-led program comprises in courses at a discount or approximately 40 courses offer academic programing including, literature, science, specifically for seniors. and philosophy, among others.

College Programs at the City CUNY Graduate Center University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue (CUNY): New York, NY 10016-4309 CUNY Senior Colleges (4 year): (212) 817-7000 When space is available, people www.gc.cuny.edu over 60 can audit courses tuition-free at any of the four- CUNY Graduate School of year CUNY colleges. Students Journalism do not take tests or receive 219 West 40th Street academic credit. New York, NY 10018 (646) 758-7700 Baruch College www.journalism.cuny.edu 55 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10010 CUNY School of Professional (646) 312-1000 Studies www.baruch.cuny.edu 119 West 31st Street New York, NY 10001 The City College of New York (212) 652-2869 (CCNY) www.sps.cuny.edu 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 CUNY School of Public Health (212) 650-7000 2180 Third Avenue www.ccny.cuny.edu New York, NY 10035 (646) 364-9600 CCNY: Quest - A Community www.sph.cuny.edu for Lifelong Learning 25 Broadway, 7th Floor Hunter College New York, NY 10004 695 (212) 925-6625 ext.229 New York, NY 10065 www.questcontinuingednyc.org (212) 772-4000 Quest serves retired and www.hunter.cuny.edu 27 John Jay College of Criminal Chapel of the Sacred Hearts Justice 325 East 33rd Street 524 West New York, NY 10016 New York, NY 10019 The Center for Learning and (212) 237-8000 Living, Inc. offers a full program www.jjay.cuny.edu of wide-ranging courses for adults aged 55 or older taught CUNY Community Colleges: by volunteer faculty from (2 year): Courses are tuition-free prominent institutions such at community colleges when as Columbia, Bard, The City space is available. Students may University of NY, University participate fully in classes: doing of Chicago, UCLA, and others homework, taking tests, and who are experts in their field. receiving grades and academic Registration for these 8-week credit. courses can be done online.

Borough of Manhattan The New School, The Institute Community College (BMCC) for Retired Professionals (IRP) 199 Chambers Street 66 West 12th Street, Room 502 New York, NY 10007 New York, NY 10011 (212) 220-8000 (212) 229-5682 www.bmcc.cuny.edu www.newschool.edu/institute- for-retired-professionals/ Stella and Charles Guttman IRP members are people who Community College have come together to create 50 West 40th Street a community in which each New York, NY 10018 person’s learning experience (646) 313-8000 is enriched through exchange www.guttman.cuny.edu with other members of diverse backgrounds and interests. Other Schools: The IRP is open to retired and semi-retired people who The Center for Learning and want to participate actively Living, Inc. in cooperative learning and P.O. Box 125 instruction. New York, NY 10044 (212) 644-3320 New York University School of www.clandl.org Continuing and Professional Location of classes: Studies 28 7 East 12th Street New York, NY 10003 Office of student enrollment services: (212) 998-7171 General information: (212) 998-7200 www.scps.nyu.edu Seniors aged 65 or older may enroll in continuing education courses for half of the regular fee (except where otherwise indicated) by requesting the senior citizen discount. The senior citizen discount does not apply to conferences and seminars that begin with an R or SCPS designation, credit courses that begin with a Y or Z designation, or computer-lab based instruction. Proof of age is required (either by Medicare card, driver’s license, passport, or other identification card) at in-person registration. If you are registering by telephone, fax, or mail, a copy of the proof of age must be sent to the Office of Student Enrollment Services.

29 Employment Call 3-1-1 and ask for the Senior Employment Services Program & Volunteer www.access.nyc.gov/ Opportunities programs/senior-employment- The organizations in this services-ses/ section will help connect SES assists NYC residents you to volunteer and work aged 55 or older seeking opportunities. work opportunities. Services include computer and customer Community Service Society: service training and job Retired and Senior Volunteer placement. Participants must Program (RSVP) meet low-income eligibility, be 105 East 22nd Street unemployed, and be interested New York, NY 10010 in obtaining a part- or full-time (212) 254-8900 job. www.cssny.org/programs/ entry/retired-and-senior- NYC Department for the volunteer-program Aging: Foster Grandparent This program recruits volunteers Volunteer Program aged 55 or older to work on a Call 3-1-1 and ask for the Foster variety of initiatives, including Grandparent Volunteer Program their financial advocacy www1.nyc.gov/site/ program, re-entry services, dfta/volunteering/foster- youth mentoring, and disaster grandparents.page preparedness. Seniors serve as mentors, tutors, and caregivers for children NYC Department for the and youth with special needs. Aging: Volunteer Resource Offers a non-taxable stipend. Center Participants must meet low- (212) 602-4464 income eligibility to qualify. Hours: 10am - 6pm (Monday - Friday) ReServe, Inc. Email: [email protected] 633 Third Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY 10017 NYC Department for the (212) 727-4335 Aging: Senior Employment Email: [email protected] Services ReServe is an organization that 2 Lafayette Street, 6th Floor places retired professionals New York, NY 10007 and other skilled retirees 30 in compensated part-time community service positions where their skills and talents are specifically needed.

NYC Service 253 Broadway, 8th Floor New York, NY 10007 (212) 788-7550 www.nycservice.org Match your expertise to volunteer assignments in public and nonprofit agencies.

31 Financial & Tax at the following link: https:// www.annualcreditreport.com/ Assistance requestReport/landingPage. These resources can help you action stay on top of your finances and learn about your rights. You will Credit Freeze Options: also find information on free tax Victims of identity theft can filing programs below. request a Security Freeze on credit files in order to prevent Center for NYC Neighborhoods strangers from acquiring credit 17 Battery Place, Suite 728 with one’s personal information. New York, NY 10004 To learn more about credit General: (212) 566-3050 freezes, visit the following link: Foreclosure Help: 646-786-0888 https://www.dos.ny.gov/ or 3-1-1 (ask for Center for NYC consumerprotection/pdf/ Neighborhoods) Security%20Freeze031116.pdf http://cnycn.org/ Request a Security Freeze by The Center for NYC contacting the national credit Neighborhoods provides reporting companies listed help to homeowners facing below: foreclosure. On their website, you can find information about Equifax Security Freeze flood protection, assistance with P. O. Box 105788 transitioning between homes, Atlanta, GA 30348 the New York State Mortgage (800) 349-9960 Assistance Program, and a https://www.freeze.equifax. Homeowner Financial Toolkit. com

Free Credit Reports Experian P.O. Box 105283 P. O. Box 9554 Atlanta, GA 30348 Allen, TX 75013 (877) 322-8228 (888) 397-3742 www.AnnualCreditReport.com https://www.experian.com/ Under U.S. federal law, the freeze national credit reporting companies Equifax, Experian, New Economy Project and TransUnion are required 121 West 27th Street, Suite 804 to provide a free credit report New York, NY 10001 once a year upon request. You (212) 680-5100 can request a free credit report www.neweconomynyc.org/ 32 The New Economy Project Phone: (212) 519-2500 offers resources to protect New Fax: (212) 727-8171 Yorkers from predatory financial Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, tactics, including information and Friday: 9am - 6pm about community development Wednesday: 9am - 1pm credit unions and individual rights regarding payday NYC Free Tax Filing loans, debt collection, creditor Food Bank For New York City – lawsuits, immigrants’ financial Countee Cullen Library rights, and credit reports. The 71 St. Nicholas Ave project also runs a Financial Manhattan, NY 10026 Justice Hotline at (212) 925-4929. (212) 566-7855 http://www.foodbanknyc.org/ TransUnion LLC taxhelp P.O. Box 2000 New York City offers free online Chester, PA 19016 and in-person tax filing services (888) 909-8872 for low-income individuals and https://freeze.transunion.com families. Information about eligibility and online filing can Financial be found at https://www1.nyc. Empowerment Centers: gov/site/dca/consumers/file- The NYC Department of your-taxes.page Consumer Affairs helps to organize Financial Empowerment Centers, where financial counselors provide free assistance on issues such as debt, credit, budgeting, and bank accounts. You can make an appointment at any Center by calling 3-1-1.

The following Financial Empowerment Centers are located in our district:

Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City 307 West 36th Street, 12th Floor New York, NY 10018 33 Hoarding 18 Tremont Street, Suite 308 Boston, MA 02108 Hoarding is the compulsive (617) 973-5801 purchasing, acquiring, www.hoarding.iocdf.org/ searching, and saving of items The International OCD that have little or no value. The Foundation Hoarding Center behavior typically has negative aims to help everyone affected, effects, including emotional, including hoarders and their physical, social, and financial for families. They provide access to a hoarder and family members. local and national resources. Adult Protective Services (APS) APS Central Intake Unit: (212) 630-1853 https://a069-apscris.nyc.gov/ cris/ APS is a division of the NYC Human Resources Administration. APS arranges services and support for physically and/or mentally impaired adults who are at risk of harm.

Children of Hoarders www.childrenofhoarders.com/ wordpress Children of Hoarders aims to improve the lives of children from hoarded homes by raising awareness, providing educational materials and programs, increasing access to practical support, and advocating for public policies that address the needs of children of hoarders.

The International OCD Foundation Hoarding Center P.O. Box 961029 34 Hospitals & Big Apple RX is a citywide free prescription discount card Healthcare program. It is accepted at many Our district contains many pharmacies around the city, such healthcare institutions that as Duane Reade, CVS, Rite Aid, provide quality emergency and Walgreens, Target, Walmart, specialized care to individuals Costco, and some independent who need it. pharmacies.

Bellevue Hospital Center Center for Hearing and 462 Communication New York, NY 10016 50 Broadway, 6th Floor (212) 562-4141 New York, NY 10004 www.nychealthandhospitals. (917) 305-7700 org/bellevue/ The Center for Hearing and Communication seeks to offer Beth Israel Senior Health high quality service, educational 275 Eighth Avenue resources, technology, and New York, NY 10011 collaboration with other (212) 463-0101 organizations to assist those (Senior Health Program number. affected by hearing loss, Senior Health patients can also listening challenges, or deafness. call this number to get in touch with a doctor after 5 pm or Columbia Care weekends). 212 East 14th Street (212) 206-1299 (House Calls New York, NY 10003 Number) (646) 453-7178 http://www.wehealny.org/ www.col-careny.com services/bi_seniorhealth/index. Columbia Care is a medical html marijuana dispensary in New Beth Israel Senior Health is a York, providing pharmaceutical- geriatrics practice affiliated with grade products to qualifying Mount Sinai Beth Israel that patients. offers a wide range of medical and support services. Lenox Health Greenwich Village Emergency Department Big Apple RX (LHGV) (888) 454-5602 or 3-1-1 30 Seventh Avenue www.bigapplerx.com New York, NY 10011 35 (646) 665-6000 NYU Langone Medical Center: www.northshorelij.com Tisch Hospital LHGV is Manhattan’s first 550 First Avenue freestanding emergency medical New York, NY 10016 department. Patients requiring (212) 263-5800 admittance are transferred www.nyulangone.org to hospitals within the metropolitan area. Planned Parenthood- Margaret Sanger Health Center Mount Sinai Beth Israel 26 Bleecker St. 280 First Avenue New York, NY 10012 New York, NY 10003 (212) 965-7000 (212) 420-4521 Planned Parenthood provides affordable health care and sex Mount Sinai Roosevelt education. The organization Hospital offers abortion services 1000 and referrals, birth control, New York, NY 10019 emergency contraception, (212) 523-4000 general health care, HIV www.roosevelthospitalnyc.org services, LGBT services, men’s health services, patient New York Eye and Ear education, pregnancy testing Infirmary of Mount Sinai and services and STD testing, 310 East 14th Street treatment, & vaccines. New York, NY 10003 (212) 979-4200 St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Hours: 9am - 5pm (Monday - 425 W. 59th Street Friday) New York, NY 10019 To speak with a representative (212) 492-5500 about finding a doctor who will www.stlukeshospitalnyc.org meet your health needs, call the Physician Referral Line at (212) SUNY College of Optometry 979-4472, available Monday 33 West 42nd Street through Friday from 9am - 5pm. New York, NY 10036 (212) 938-4000 NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases www.sunyopt.edu 301 East 17th Street The SUNY College of New York, NY 10003 Optometry offers free vision Phone: (212) 598-6000 screenings to senior citizens and 36 other low-income individuals as well as additional vision medical aid.

VA NY Harbor Healthcare System: VA Affairs Hospital Manhattan Campus: 423 East New York, NY 10010 (212) 686-7500 www.nyharbor.va.gov

37 Housing Evelyn and Louis Green Residence at Below you will find senior- (JASA-Housing Services) specific housing resources 200 East 5th Street as well as organizations that New York, NY 10003 provide multi-age housing. (212) 273-5272 www.jasa.org/community/ Adult Day Health Care housing Program The residence offers group 121B West 20th Street activities, social services, and New York, NY 10011 special safety features including (212) 337-9220 on-duty social workers. www.villagecare.org/ communitycare/AADHC/ Fredric Fleming Residence VillageCare’s AIDS Adult 443 West 22nd Street Day Health Care program is New York, NY 10011 a responsive and inclusive (212) 242-5277 treatment setting providing www.wsfssh.org/buildings/ adult day health care for persons frederic-fleming-house living with HIV/AIDS. They Fredric Fleming residence is provide meals and Metro Cards. an assisted living facility that Their services are for Medicaid- offers residents aged 55 or older eligible persons. Applicants independent living options and for day treatment must be at daily support services. least 18 years old, live in the metropolitan area, and require Harborview Terrace Senior HIV/AIDS medical monitoring. Building 525 West Encore West Residence New York, NY 10019 755 Tenth Avenue (between 51st (212) 757-1051 and 52nd St.) www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/ New York, NY 10019 html/developments/ (212) 991-3727 manharborview.shtml www.encorecommunityservices. NYCHA public housing built org/encore-west-residence specifically for seniors. To Encore West Residence provides be eligible, you and all other affordable housing for low- household members must be at income seniors aged 62 or older least 62 years of age, and income who meet income criteria. The cannot exceed established residence offers onsite services income limits. You must apply and recreational activities. 38 through the NYCHA application Rehabilitation and Nursing process. For more information, Center call 3-1-1 and ask for NYCHA. 214 West Houston Street New York, NY 10014 Home Sharing Program (212) 337-9400 11 Park Place, 14th Floor www.villagecare.org/ New York, NY 10007 residentialcare/vcrnc (212) 962-7559 The first newly built skilled www.nyfsc.org/services/home_ nursing facility in Manhattan in sharing.html more than 50 years. The facility NY Foundation for Senior features state-of-the-art medical Citizens’ Home Sharing care and an environment Program matches senior citizens designed to promote healing aged 60 years or older living in and wellbeing. NYC with compatible persons in need of housing. This program VillageCare 510 West 46th Street promotes companionship and New York, NY 10036 relieves financial hardship. (212) 977-4600 www.46and10village.org New York Foundation for VillageCare serves people with Senior Citizens (NYFSC): chronic conditions as well as Clinton Gardens seniors in need of continuing 404 West care and rehabilitation New York, NY 10019 services. They offer a variety (212) 489-9339 of community and residential www.hitesite.org/ programs as well as managed Members/ResourceDetails. care. VillageCare at 46th Street aspx?resourceId=16925 and Tenth Avenue, an assisted Clinton Gardens offers 100 units living program, is a market-rate of subsidized and Enriched senior living community with Housing for low-income seniors on-site services and recreational aged 62 or older. The Enriched and social activities for seniors Housing Program assists with aged 62 years or older. personal care, housekeeping, shopping, meal preparation, Naturally Occurring medical appointments, and Retirement Community other personal needs. (NORC): NORCs are multi-age housing developments or neighborhoods

39 that were not originally built Hours: 9am - 5pm for seniors but now are home (Monday - Friday) to a significant number of older persons. Here you can find a list Utilities: of NORC’s in our district: These programs will offer help and financial assistance with Phipps Plaza NORC your home utilities. 520 Second Avenue, ground floor Con Edison Senior Direct New York, NY 10016 Program (212) 683-6583 (800) 404-9097 Hours: 9am - 5pm Con Edison’s Senior Direct (Monday - Friday) Program is a toll-free phone service for customers aged 62 or Elliott-Chelsea NORC older who have questions about 430 West 26th Street their Con Edison account. New York, NY 10001 (212) 924-2626 Con Edison CONCERN Program (800) 752-6633 Lincoln House http://legacyold.coned.com/ Outreach NORC customercentral/specialservices. 303 West asp New York, NY 10023 The Con Edison CONCERN (212) 875-8958 program is a free and Hours: 9am - 4pm confidential service for (Monday - Thursday); customers who are either 9am - 2:30pm (Friday) above the age of 61 or have a permanent disability. Lincoln Square NORC CONCERN representatives 250 West 65th Street advise customers about bill New York, NY 10023 payment options, government (212) 874-0860 aid programs, and other Hours: 9am - 5pm organizations that offer similar (Monday - Friday) assistance.

Penn South The Home Energy Assistance Program for Seniors Program (HEAP) 290 122 East 124th Street, Lobby New York, NY 10001 New York, NY 10035 (212) 243-3670 (800) 692-0557

40 Hotline: (800) 342-3009 www.otda.ny.gov/programs/ heap HEAP helps low-income homeowners and renters pay bills for heating fuel, equipment and repairs.

Verizon LifeLine PO Box 33075 St. Petersburg, FL 33733 (800) 837-4966 www.verizon.com/support/ consumer/consumer- education/lifeline

Verizon LifeLine is a government assistance program that offers telephone discounts to qualified low-inwcome customers.

41 Legal Assistance immigration and trusts/ estates matters to eligible Navigating the legal system can low- and moderate-income be a complicated process, and tenants, tenant associations, it is extremely important that HDFC shareholders and other you know your rights while community organizations doing so. The organizations located in the Hell’s Kitchen/ below offer legal assistance and Clinton neighborhoods (from information regarding the legal 34th to , and from system. Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River). City Bar Justice Center’s Veterans Assistance Project Housing Court Answers 42 West 44th Street 111 Centre Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10036 Clerk’s Office - Room 225 (212) 382-4722 New York, NY 10013 www.nycbar.org/ (212) 962-4795 citybarjusticecenter/projects/ www.cwtfhc.org economic-justice/veterans- Hours: 9am - 4pm assistance-project (Monday - Friday) The Veterans Assistance Project Housing Court Answers helps low-income veterans by provides information tables in providing pro bono assistance the city’s housing courts and with disability benefits claims. staffs a hotline for callers with They offer a veterans intake line, information about housing law, which offers information and rent arrears assistance, and advice and screens cases to be homeless prevention guidance. invited to a monthly legal clinic. They also provide telephone assistance from 9am - 5pm, Housing Conservation Tuesday - Thursday. The office Coordinators (HCC) may be closed between 1pm and 777 Tenth Avenue 2pm on weekdays. New York, NY 10019 (212) 541-5996 Immigration Helpline: www.hcc-nyc.org (844) 955-3425 HCC offers a range of civil Hours: 9:30am - 12:30pm legal services including (Monday - Friday) representation on benefit, consumer, landlord/tenant,

42 Manhattan Legal Services The website contains a hotline 40 , Suite 606 list guiding you to help with New York, NY 10013 your specific needs. (646) 442-3100 www.legalservicesnyc.org Legal Aid Society Manhattan Legal Services 199 Water Street provides legal assistance New York, NY 10038 to low-income residents of (212) 577-3300 Manhattan through free legal www.legal-aid.org/en/home. representation, advocacy, and aspx community education. They Legal Aid Society is a non-profit primarily work in the following organization that offers legal areas: family law, housing law, services to low-income New government benefits, HIV/ Yorkers. They work on civil, AIDS, consumer protection, and criminal, and juvenile rights immigration. cases. The Society also has an “Access to Benefits Helpline,” Kinship Caregiver Law Project which provides direct assistance www.mfy.org/projects/kinship- and referrals to those in need caregiver-law-project of legal assistance to obtain Kinship Caregiver Law Project benefits or resolve employment helps to provide legal stability issues. through representation in custody, guardianship and Access to Benefits (A2B) adoption matters, access to Helpline public benefits, and special (888) 663-6880 immigration cases. Hours: 9:30am - 12:30pm (Tuesday - Thursday) LawHelpNY The Legal Aid Society operates 42 West 44th Street an A2B helpline which can New York, NY 10036 provide information about www.lawhelpny.org/issues/ employment, health, and seniors government benefits. Find free legal aid for low- income citizens in New York Manhattan District Attorney’s and information about your Elder Abuse Unit legal rights, courts, and more 1 Hogan Place pertaining to New York State.

43 New York, NY 10013 health care, consumer, and (212) 335-8920 abuse issues, prioritizing those Hotline: (212) 335-9007 at risk of losing their housing www.manhattanda.org/ and independence. resources-victims-elder-abuse The Manhattan District New York Legal Assistance Attorney’s Elder Abuse Unit Group (NYLAG) investigates and prosecutes 7 Hanover Square, 18th Floor crimes involving victims aged 60 New York, NY 10004 and over. They provide services (212) 613-5000 in investigation and prosecution, www.nylag.org assistance in obtaining an Order NYLAG is a non-profit law of Protection, and emergency office providing free civil legal housing if needed, consultation, services to low-income New social services referrals, and Yorkers. Elder Law Specialists review by the Narcotics work with seniors to address Eviction Program for evictions issues related to entitlements, of drug dealers from a senior’s health care, nursing home/ residential or commercial hospital rights, guardianship, premises. abuse and neglect, consumer matters, and other issues Mobilization for Justice affecting seniors. 100 William Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10038 Urban Justice Center (212) 417-3700 40 Rector Street, 9th Floor www.mobilizationforjustice.org New York, NY 10006 MFY provides free legal (646) 602-5600 assistance to New Yorkers on www.urbanjustice.org a variety of civil legal issues, The Urban Justice Center including issues related to provides direct legal disability and aging rights. services, advocacy, political organization, and community Manhattan Seniors Project education to New York’s www.mfy.org/projects/ most vulnerable populations. manhattan-seniors-project The center is composed of 10 Manhattan Seniors Project different projects: Community provides a wide range of civil Development, Domestic legal services to low-income Violence, Safety Net, Human seniors including benefits, Rights, Iraqi Refugee Assistance, 44 Mental Health, Peter Cicchino coordinates volunteer attorneys Youth, Sex Workers, Street to represent eligible seniors Vendor, and Veteran Advocacy. seeking assistance with Life Planning Documents. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) 1 East 53rd St., 6th Floor New York, NY 10022 (212) 319-2787, ext. 1 www.vlany.org VLA provides pro bono arts- related legal representation to low-income individual artists and nonprofit arts organizations and a broad range of other services for the arts community, including legal counseling, educational programs, advocacy, and alternative dispute resolution.

Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS): Elderly Project 281 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010 (212) 966-4400 www.volsprobono.org The VOLS Elderly Project provides free legal services to low-income Manhattan residents aged 60 or older by conducting 12 monthly legal advice clinics at senior centers (including Encore Community Services at 239 W. 49th St.) that provide legal information and advice to elder services case managers, social workers and advocates. The project also 45 LGBT Services service, public policy, educational, cultural, and The following resources offer recreational programs designed support and programming to to nurture and empower LGBT individuals. Additionally, LGBT people. Programming the Office of the New York City and support services include Comptroller has published an substance abuse treatment LGBTQ Guide of Services and and prevention, HIV-related Resources that you can access concerns, bereavement, online at https://comptroller. transgender issues, coming out nyc.gov/services/for-the- matters, and other mental health public/lgbtq-directory/ needs.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Mount Sinai Health Systems Transgender National Hotline LGBT Health Services: (888) 843-4564 Mount Sinai Health Systems Hours: 4pm - 12am (Weekdays); provides primary, specialty, 12pm - 5pm (Saturdays) and hospital care for LGBT Email: [email protected] individuals, transgender health http://www.glnh.org services including a Center This free and anonymous for Transgender Medicine & hotline offers peer counseling Surgery, patient navigation and referrals for services services, and health education available to LGBT individuals for LGBT organizations nationwide. The hotline is run throughout the city. The two by the LGBT National Help Mount Sinai hospitals in our Center, which also operates district are: an Online Peer-Support Chat program. Mount Sinai Beth Israel 281 First Avenue (First Avenue The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual at 16th Street) and Transgender Community New York, NY 10003 Center of NYC (212) 420-2000 or (212) 857-9980 208 West 13th Street –and– New York, NY 10011 Mount Sinai West (212) 620-7310 1000 Tenth Avenue Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10019 https://gaycenter.org/home (212) 523-4000 or (212) 857-9990 The Center provides social

46 Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) 305 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor New York, NY 10001 National Headquarters: (212) 741-2247

SAGE Center Midtown: (646) 576-8669 http://www.sageusa.org/ SAGE is a national organization that advocates on behalf of elderly LGBT individuals through policy work, partnerships, and local community centers throughout the United States. It offers a variety of services including cultural, health and wellness, and workforce development programs. You can contact the SAGE LGBT Elderly Hotline at (888) 234-SAGE.

47 Local Pharmacies There are many pharmacies in the district where you can pick up your household needs and your prescription medications.

Elm Drugs 56 Seventh Avenue (between 13th & 14th Streets) New York, NY 10011 212-255-6100 Elmdrugs.com

C. O. Bigelow 414 New York, NY 10011 (212) 533-2700 bigelowchemists.com

New London Pharmacy 246 Eighth Ave New York, NY 10011 Pharmacy: (212) 243-4987 General Info: (212) 243-4987 ext. 305 Newlondonpharmacy.com

Village Apothecary 346 New York, NY 10014 (212) 807-7566 Villageapothecary.com

48 Long-Term Care Managed Long-Term Care Plan Directory Long-term care refers to www.health.ny.gov/health_ medical, personal, or other care/managed_care/mltc/ services that you may need over mltcplans.htm an extended period of time. We The Managed Long Term Care hope these resources will make Program provides health and the process of learning about long-term care services to long-term care easier and more adults with chronic illness or efficient. disabilities. This link takes you to a directory of long-term care Eldercare Locator plans in New York State. (800) 677-1116 www.eldercare.gov National Clearinghouse for The Eldercare Locator is Long-Term Care Information designed to help older adults Administration of Community and their families and caregivers Living find their way through the maze Washington, DC 20201 of services for seniors, including (202) 619-0724 long-term care, by identifying www.longtermcare.gov trustworthy local support LongTermCare.gov is a resources. The goal is to provide government website run by the users with the information and U.S. Department of Health and resources that will help older Human Services. The website persons live independently provides information about the and safely in their homes and services and supports included communities for as long as in long-term care and payment possible. methods.

Guide to Medicaid Managed New York City Human Long-Term Care Resources Administration www.health.ny.gov/health_ (HRA) care/medicaid/redesign/docs/ www.nyc.gov/html/hra/html/ mltc_guide_e.pdf services/long_term_care.shtml The Department of Health’s The NYS Partnership for Long- website includes this guide that Term Care (NYSPLTC) is a explains how to choose a long- unique Department of Health term care plan. program combining private

49 long-term care insurance and Medicaid Extended Coverage (MEC). Its purpose is to help New Yorkers financially prepare for the possibility of needing nursing home care, home care, or assisted living services.

New York State Department of Health Consumer Guide to Long-Term Care www.health.ny.gov/health_ care/medicaid/program/ longterm/ The New York State Department of Health offers an online “Consumer Guide to Community-Based Long-Term Care,” which explains what long-term care services are, who can receive them, how to find these services, and methods of payment.

50 Medical Marijuana Columbia Care Manhattan dispensary is one of the first Medical marijuana has medical marijuana dispensaries been credited with a host of in New York State, providing therapeutic uses in recent years. pharmaceutical-grade products This is especially true for older to qualifying patients in New adults suffering from cancer, York. Alzheimer’s, certain kinds of pain, and more. It is always essential that you speak with your doctor about whether the medical use of marijuana is appropriate for your condition. To learn more about medical marijuana in New York State, please see the resources below.

New York State Department of Health Riverview Center 150 Broadway, Suite 355 Albany, NY 12204 (866) 811–7957 https://www.health.ny.gov/ regulations/medical_ marijuana/faq.htm The NYS Department of Health website contains a wealth of useful information about using medical marijuana in New York State, including finding a practitioner, finding a dispensary, current law, and more.

Columbia Care 212 East 14th Street New York, NY 10003 (646) 453-7178 www.col-careny.com/ 51 Nutrition & Food to their door, as part of Encore’s Meals-on-Wheels Program. A Assistance donation of $1.00 per meal is This section provides suggested. information about programs that deliver meals to eligible Weekend seniors, as well as a list of soup Home-delivered Meals: kitchens, food pantries, farmers’ Hot meals are delivered to markets, and community homebound seniors so that they supported agriculture programs. have meals for both Saturday and Sunday. If seniors prefer, Citymeals-on-Wheels they can substitute a package of 355 Lexington Avenue non-perishable food items for New York, NY 10017 the Sunday hot meal. (212) 687-1234 www.citymeals.org Food Bank for New York City Citymeals-on-Wheels 39 Broadway, 10th Floor prepares and delivers meals to New York, NY 10006 homebound and elderly New (212) 566-7855 Yorkers aged 60 years or older www.foodbanknyc.org/about- who are physically or mentally food-bank incapacitated, unable to prepare Food Bank for New York City meals, and able to live safely at procures and distributes food home if services are provided to to a network of more than 1,000 them. community-based member programs citywide, helping to Encore Home Delivered Meals provide 400,000 free meals a day 220 West 49th Street for New Yorkers in need. Their New York, NY 10019 website includes a food program (212) 246-0880 locator that shows food pantries, Hours: 9am - 5pm soup kitchens, and senior (Monday - Friday) centers throughout the city that Registration: 9am - 12pm serve meals. (Tuesday and Wednesday) www.wsiaca.org/ God’s Love We Deliver resourcedirectory/?orgID=140 (212) 294-8102 For frail and homebound seniors www.glwd.org who are unable to attend the The Home Delivered Meal Center, hot meals are delivered Program provides home- 52 delivered meals to clients all the 1.4 million low-income New over New York City. If you are Yorkers who live in households living with a life-altering illness that can’t afford enough food. and have difficulty shopping or cooking, call to find out more WhyHunger information about becoming a 505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2100 client. New York, NY 10018 (212) 629-8850 Middle Collegiate Church www.whyhunger.org 50 East 7th Street WhyHunger is a leader in New York, NY 10003 building the movement to (212) 477-0666 end hunger and poverty by http://www.middlechurch.org/ connecting people to nutritious, justice/food affordable food and by Middle Collegiate Church supporting grassroots solutions offers several meal programs, that inspire self-reliance and including free lunches and a community empowerment. dinner program for individuals with HIV/AIDS. From Easter Soup Kitchens until Thanksgiving, Middle and Food Pantries: Collegiate Church gives out This list provides locations of sandwiches in nearby parks food kitchens that offer free hot every Sunday at 12:30pm, and food and pantries that offer free serves a meal at the Church canned food and other non- at 12:30pm on Sundays after perishables to seniors in need services. grouped by location.

New York City Coalition MIDTOWN: Serving zip codes: Against Hunger 10001, 10010, 10016, 10017, 50 Broad Street, Suite 1520 10018, 10019, 10022, 10036: New York, NY 10004 (212) 825-0028 Crossroads Community www.nyccah.org Services at Saint The New York City Coalition Bartholomew’s Church Against Hunger (NYCCAH) 108 East , 10022 represents and is the voice (212) 378-0231 for the more than 1,100 non- Soup Kitchen: Sundays, profit soup kitchens and food Mondays, and Wednesdays, pantries in New York City and 7am - 8:30am; Monday - Friday, 53 5:30pm - 6:30pm the dining area. Food Pantry: Thursday, Metro Baptist Church appointment necessary, 410 West 40th Street, 10018 call (212) 378-0234 to get an (212) 594-4464 appointment time. Food Pantry: Saturdays, 11am - 11:30am (except on the Crossroads Food Pantry 5th Saturday per month) 329 West 42nd Street, 10036 One visit per month. ID (212) 246-4732 and proof of address for all Food Pantry: household members required. Every other Saturday, 11:30am - 1pm Relief Bus Proof of residence Mobile Resource Center and income required. 9th Ave. (between 40th Street and 41st Street), 10036 The Dwelling Place of NY, Inc. (800) 736-2773 409 West 40th Street, 10018 Soup Kitchen: (212) 564-7887 Saturdays, 8pm - 10pm Soup Kitchen: Wednesdays, 5:30pm - 6:30pm Sacred Heart of Jesus Church Only for women at least 30 years 457 West 51st Street, 10019 old. ID required for first visit. (212) 265-5020 Must be sober. Food Pantry: Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 4:30pm - 5:30pm Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Registration is on Fridays, 10am 296 9th Avenue – 11am. Photo ID and proof of (corner of 28th Street), 10001 address required. (212) 924-0167 Soup Kitchen: St. Clement’s Episcopal Church Monday - Friday, 423 West 46th Street, 10036 10:30am - 12:30pm (212) 246-7277 Referrals are available to Food Pantry: Fridays, 4pm - services such as haircuts, 6am; Saturdays (except for every clothing pantries, benefits, 1st Saturday), 9am - 11am eyeglasses, etc. Soup kitchen (non-state) photo IDs can be St. Francis of Assisi created, which are available 135 West 31st Street, 10001 during soup kitchen hours in (212) 736-8500 the counseling office at rear of Soup Kitchen: 54 Every day, 7am - 7:30am Bring your own bag for pantry. Sandwiches and coffee. Line CHELSEA, WEST VILLAGE: starts at around 6:30am. (serving: 10011-10014):

St. John’s Bread of Life Church of the Ascension 210 West 31st Street, 10001 12 West 11th Street, 10011 (212) 564-9070 x203 (212) 254-8620 Food Pantry: Wednesdays, Food Pantry: Every 3rd 12:30pm - 2:30pm Saturday, 8:30am Must live between 14th St. and Arrive early – there are often 50th St. Proof of residence and 200+ people in line. Line up on ID required. W. 11th St. starting at 5th Ave.

St. Luke’s Lutheran Church Hope for Our Neighbors in 308 West 46th Street, 10036 Need at Church of the Village (212) 246-3540 201 West 13th Street, 10011 Soup Kitchen: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1pm - 2pm (212) 243-5470 Soup Kitchen: St. Paul’s House Saturdays, 12pm - 1:30pm 335 West 51st Street, 10019 Food Pantry: (212) 265-5433 Tuesdays, 1pm - 2:30pm Soup Kitchen: Mondays, Doors open 30 minutes before Wednesdays, and Fridays, food service begins. 7:30am - 8:30am Food Pantry: Tuesdays, Hebrew Union College - Jewish 10am - 11am Institute of Religion Soup Must live between West 28th St. Kitchen - West 60th St. for food pantry, 1 West 4th Street, 10012 two proofs of address and photo (212) 674-5300 ID required. Business clothing Soup Kitchen: available Tuesdays. Mondays, 5pm - 6pm (summer hours: 5pm - 5:30pm) Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry Entrance on Mercer Street. 446 West 36th Street, 10018 During school year, warm (212) 629-7440 balanced meals, clothing, Soup Kitchen: toiletries, and free legal advice Tuesday - Friday, 2pm - 3pm from NYU law students inside. Food Pantry: Thursdays, 9am - 10am

55 Judson Memorial Church 55 West 15th Street, 10011 55 Washington Square South, (212) 627-2100 10012 Soup Kitchen: Sunday, (212) 477-0351 1pm – 3pm. Potluck Meal: Every 1st Seniors and disabled individuals Wednesday line up on West 16th St. for soup Doors open at 7pm, food is kitchen; all others on West 15th distributed at 7:15pm and is St. (elevator for those unable to followed by a performance. navigate stairs on West 15th St). Food Pantry: Customer choice Salvation Army, New York pantry 2nd Saturday of each Temple month from 10am - 11:30am 132 West 14th Street, 10011 Emergency Pantry: Monday - (212) 337-7469 Friday, 10am - 6pm Soup Kitchen: Monday - Customer choice pantry open Thursday, 12pm - 1pm only to residents of 10001- Food Pantry: Monday - Friday, 10003, 10009-10014, 10016. ID and proof of address required 9:30am - 11am, 1:30pm - 3pm for customer choice pantry Photo ID and proof of address in (not necessary for emergency 10002-10007, 10009-10014, 10038, pantry). Emergency pantry only 10041, 10047, 10048 required at available once every six months. first visit for pantry. LOWER EAST SIDE, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church EAST VILLAGE: 346 West 20th Street, 10011 (serving: 10002, 10003, 10009): (212) 929-2390 Food Pantry: Wednesdays Father’s Heart Ministries and Fridays, 10am - 12pm; 543 East 11th Street, 10009 Saturdays, 11am - 11:30am (212) 375-1765 Referral required. Soup Kitchen: Tuesdays, 6pm - 7pm (for children, teens & their St. Joseph’s Church families), Saturdays, 10am - 371 Sixth Avenue, 10014 11am (except every 1st Saturday (347) 886-6345 of the month). Soup Kitchen: Saturdays, Food Pantry: Tuesdays, 6pm - 1:30pm - 3:30pm 6:30pm; Saturdays, 10am - 11am (except every 1st Saturday of the Xavier Mission at The Church month) of St. Francis Xavier SNAP (food stamps) pre- 56 screenings available. Free GED Farmers’ Markets and ESL classes Saturdays, New Yorkers can access foods 10am - 11:30am; Tuesdays, 6pm straight from the farm in - 7:30pm. two ways: farmers’ markets and community supported Trinity’s Services and Food for agriculture programs or the Homeless CSAs. CSA members purchase 602 East 9th Street, 10009 “shares” in an entire season (212) 228-5254 of high quality, fresh produce Soup Kitchen: Monday - Friday, grown by local farmers. 11am – 12pm Members usually pay for their Food Pantry: Monday - shares in advance, but some Thursday, 12:30pm - 1:30pm. CSAs adjust payment to income, ID for all family members accept food stamp benefits, required. Pantry is client choice, and allow some members to may receive once a month. Last pay week to week. All farmers’ number called at 1:30pm. markets listed accept EBT/ SNAP (food stamps). WEST OF : (serving; 10023, 10024, 10025): MIDTOWN (serving: 10001, 10010, 10016, Blessed Sacrament Church 10017, 10018, 10019, 10020, 146 West 70th Street, 10023 10028, 10036): (212) 873-9224 Soup Kitchen: Sundays starting 57th St. Greenmarket at 2pm. West & 9th Avenue, Brown bag meal. Closed July & 10019 August. Apr. 19 - Dec. 20: Saturdays May 7 - Dec. 17: Wednesdays Christ and St. Stephen’s Brown Always 8am - 5pm Bag Program 120 West 69th Street, 10023 CHELSEA, WEST VILLAGE (212) 580-8179 (serving: 10011-10014): Soup Kitchen: Monday - Friday, 9:30am - 10:30am. Chelsea Farmers’ Market Brown bag meal. North side of West 23rd Street Operates on all holidays. (east of 9th Avenue), 10011 Jun. 7 - Nov. 22: Saturdays Always 9am - 5pm 57 PS 11 Farm Market Tucker Square Greenmarket West 21st Street (between 8th West 66th Street & Columbus Avenue & 9th Avenue), 10011 Avenue, 10023 Jun. 11 - Nov. 19: Wednesdays Thursday - Saturday, year-round Always 8am- 11am Always 8am - 5pm

Abingdon Square Greenmarket CSA Programs: West 12th Street & Eighth Note that sign up is generally Avenue, 10014 March to May, with the first Saturdays, year-round pickup in June or July and Always 8am – 2pm the last one in late October or early November. As a rule, LOWER EAST SIDE, late sign up is not permitted. EAST VILLAGE: Check justfood.org/casloc for a (serving: 10002, 10003, 10009): complete list of all CSAs in the city. St. Mark’s Church Greenmarket 14th St Y CSA East 10th Street & Second Pickup: 14th Street Y Avenue, 10003 344 East 14th Street Jun. 3 - Nov. 25: Tuesdays New York, NY 10003 Always 8am - 6pm Email: [email protected] www.14streety.org/laba/the- Stuyvesant Town Greenmarket 14th-street-y-csa 14th Street Loop & (in the Oval), 10009 Hell’s Kitchen CSA May 4 - Nov. 23: Sundays Pickup: Signature Theater Cafe Always 9:30am - 4pm 480 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Tompkins Square Greenmarket Email: suzannah.schneider@ East 7th Street & Avenue A, katchkiefarm.com 10009 www.katchkiefarm.com/csa Sundays, year-round Always 9am - 6pm Mae Mae CSA Pickup: Cafe Mae Mae WEST OF CENTRAL PARK: 68 Vandam Street (serving: 10023, 10024, 10025): New York, NY 10013 Email: suzannah.schneider@ katchkiefarm.com 58 www.katchkiefarm.com/csas/ mae-mae-cafe-community-csa

Merchants’ Gate CSA Pickup: John Jay College of Criminal Justice 860 Eleventh Avenue (between 58th and 59th Streets) New York, NY 10019 Email: [email protected] www.merchantsgatecsa.org

Neighborhood School CSA Pickup: Neighborhood School 121 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10009 Email: neighborhoodschoolcsa@ gmail.com Washington Square CSA Pickup: St. Marks in the 131 East 10th Street New York, NY 10003 Email: info@ washingtonsquarecsa.com www.washingtonsquarecsa.com

The West Village CSA Pickup: The Church of Saint Francis Xavier 46 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) New York, NY 10011 Email: [email protected] www.westvillagecsa.org

59 NYPD Police 9th Precinct 321 East 5th Street Precincts New York, NY 10003 Below is a list of NYPD precincts (212) 477-7811 in our district, along with the Community Affairs: meeting times of each Precinct (212) 477-7805 Community Council. Precinct www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ Community Councils are html/precincts/precinct_009. designed to foster connections shtml between community residents The Precinct Community and NYPD service members. Council meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm at 1st Precinct the 9th Precinct located at 321 16 Ericsson Place East 5th Street. New York, NY 10013-2411 (212) 334-0611 10th Precinct Community Affairs: 230 West 20th Street (212) 334-0640 New York, NY 10011 www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ (212) 741-8211 html/precincts/precinct_001. Community Affairs: shtml (212) 741-8226 The Precinct Community www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ Council meetings are held at 6:30pm on the last Thursday of html/precincts/precinct_010. each month at the First Precinct. shtml The Precinct Community 6th Precinct Council meets on the last 233 West 10th Street Wednesday of the month at 7pm New York, NY 10014 at the 10th Precinct located at (212) 741-4811 230 West 20th Street. Community Affairs: (212) 741-4826 13th Precinct http://www.nyc.gov/html/ 230 East 21st Street nypd/html/precincts/ New York, NY 10010 precinct_006.shtml (212) 477-7411 The Precinct Community Community Affairs: Council meetings are held on (212) 477-7427 the last Wednesday of each www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ month at 25 Carmine Street, html/precincts/precinct_013. New York, NY 10014, at 7:30pm. shtml 60 The Precinct Community Community Affairs: Council meets on the third (212) 767-8447 Tuesday of the month at the 13th www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ Precinct at 6:30pm. html/precincts/precinct_018. shtml 17th Precinct The Precinct Community 167 East 51st Street Council meets every third New York, NY 10022 Tuesday of the month at 7pm at (212) 826-3211 the Midtown North Pct. Station Community Affairs: House. Meetings are not held in (212) 826-3228 July/August. www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ html/precincts/precinct_017. Midtown South Precinct shtml 357 West 35th Street The Precinct Community New York, NY 10001-1701 Council meets on the last (212) 239-9811 Tuesday of every month at 6pm Community Affairs: at Sutton Place Synagogue, 225 (212) 239-9846 East 51st Street. www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ html/precincts/precinct_014. 20th Precinct shtml 120 West 82nd Street The Precinct Community New York, NY 10024 Council meets on the third (212) 580-6411 Thursday of the month at 7pm Community Affairs: at the New Yorker Hotel. (212) 580-6428 www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ html/precincts/precinct_020. shtml The Precinct Community Council meetings are usually held the fourth Monday of each month (except July and August) at the 20th Precinct at 7pm.

Midtown North Precinct 306 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 767-8400 61 Opioid Addiction (SAMHSA-7) National Suicide Prevention Resources Lifeline (800) 273-8255 (TALK) / Opioid addiction is an epidemic TTY: (800) 799-4889 in our country. Below are National Helpline (800) 662-4357 resources to help combat it. (HELP) TTY: (800) 487-4889 Disaster Distress Helpline (800) Educational Alliance - Center 985-5990 / TTY: (800) 846-8517 for Recovery and Wellness www.samhsa.gov 25-29 SAMHSA offers numerous New York, NY 10009 resources and hotlines for (646) 395-4405 those seeking treatment and Offers residential and outpatient concerned loved ones. treatment programs as well as proactive community programming and prevention education.

NYC Department of Health - Alcohol & Drug Use 24/7 Help Hotline: (888) 692- 9355 (888-NYC-WELL) https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ doh/health/health-topics/ alcohol-and-drug-use.page The NYC Department of Health website contains information about how to prevent an overdose and where you can go if you or someone you know has overdosed.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 General Inquires: (877) 726-4727

62 Pet Care Seniors who would like assistance with the care of their pets can reach out to organizations that provide in- home pet care services. Other organizations offer pet therapy programs through which pets provide emotional comfort to individuals in need.

Paws NY (212) 203-4760 http://pawsny.org/ Through Paws NY’s Housecall Program, volunteers visit the homes of eligible senior pet owners to provide services, including dog walking, litter maintenance, medication administration, and food and water provision.

Therapy Dogs International (973) 252-9800 Email: [email protected] http://www.tdi-dog.org/ Therapy Dogs International (TDI) provides therapy dog visits to homes, nursing homes, shelters, and hospitals as well as therapy dog support during hospice care.

63 Senior Centers The Educational Alliance’s Sirovich Senior Center Becoming involved in senior 331 East 12th Street centers can be an excellent way New York, NY 10003 to stay engaged with your peers (212) 228-7836 and community while meeting www.edalliance.org/older_ new people. There are a number adults of senior community centers The Sirovich Center offers free in our district that provide a breakfast (8:30am – 10am), variety of programs, including lunch (12pm – 1pm), and dinner lectures, classes, financial and (5pm – 6pm) to people aged 60 legal services, and meals. or older. They also offer a vari- ety of other services, including Clinton Senior Center arts and cultural educational 530 West 55th Street programs, health and wellness New York, NY 10019 workshops, ballroom dancing, (212) 757-2026 line/jazz dancing, Zumba, com- Services Offered: Lunch puter lab access, an Asian choral (Monday - Friday, 12pm - 1pm) group, an Asian dance group, and light dinner (Wednesdays), cooking classes, movie matinees, gardening club, library, large yoga, tai chi, and karaoke. dining room, trips, holiday parties, computer class, strength Encore Senior Center training, tai chi, belly dancing, 239 West 49th Street ping-pong, Zumba, chorus, line New York, NY 10019 dancing, bingo, senior legal (212) 581-2910 clinic, and aromatherapy. www.encorecommunityservices. org/programs Coffee House Senior Center The Encore Senior Center is 331 West 42nd Street open from 9am - 4pm, Mon- New York, NY 10036 day through Friday. They offer (646) 545-4621 lectures and discussion groups Breakfast and lunch are provid- on various subjects, such as ed Monday through Friday to crime prevention, nutrition, le- seniors aged 60 years or older. A gal rights, fire safety, and estate take-away bag of canned items planning. They also offer a vari- is available for eligible seniors ety of activities, such as yoga, tai (must meet criteria) four days chi, salsa movement, painting a week. Dinner is offered every classes, movies, trips, birthday Thursday evening. 64 celebrations, bingo, concerts, a-longs, card playing, and day and holiday parties. From 9am trips. Staff members also help - 10am, the Center also offers seniors obtain the services, bene- a breakfast cart to seniors for a fits, entitlements and referrals small fee. that they need.

Goddard Riverside Hudson Guild Adult Services Senior Center 119 Ninth Avenue 593 Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10011 (at 88th Street) (212) 924-6710 New York, NY 10024 www.hudsonguild.org (212) 873-6600 The Hudson Guild Adult Ser- Goddard Riverside Senior Cen- vices provides personal support ter offers a variety of programs and social services to partici- and resources for its senior pants aged 55 or older, including members. Some of the services intensive and walk-in case man- provided include breakfast and agement for both homebound lunch, social events, benefits and mobile seniors, information advocacy, wellness health and and referral services, and access nutrition classes, trips, com- to additional services for legal, munity partnerships, arts and financial, health insurance, med- music workshops, and much ical, and housing needs. more. There are also on-site staff members available to help with John Paul II Friendship Center housing issues. 103 7th Street New York, NY 10009 Greenwich House Senior Cen- (212) 673-7704 ters www.polishslaviccenter.net/en/ 122 West 27th Street, 6th Floor john-paul-ii-friendship-center/ New York, NY 10001 Sponsored by the Polish Slavic (212) 991-0003 Center, this senior center is for www.greenwichhouse.org/se- people aged 60 years or older nior_center/index and offers a variety of services, Greenwich House provides ser- including lunch, cultural and vices for seniors in and around educational activities, music, Greenwich Village. Their senior television, board games, bingo, centers offer meals and a variety dominoes, choir, birthday and of activities, including poetry, holiday parties, retirement health lectures, painting, bingo, benefit information, computer exercise classes, movies, sing- 65 courses, English classes, Lincoln Square immigration and legal services, Neighborhood Center fencing club, and table tennis 250 West 65th Street club. New York, NY 10023 (212) 874-0860 Judith C. White Senior Center www.lsncny.org/programs/ 27 Barrow Street, 4th Floor adults New York, NY 10014-3823 Lincoln Square Neighborhood Phone: (212) 242-4140, Ext. 260 Center offers health services, Fax: (212) 463-0165 homebound services, mental Breakfast: 9am - 10 am health services, social services, Lunch: 12pm - 1pm and recreational/educational services. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Senior Center at Saint Pace University’s Active Peter’s Church Retirement Center (PARC) 619 Lexington Avenue Pace University Midtown New York, NY 10022 Center (212) 308-1959 551 5th Avenue (between 45th & www.lenoxhill.org/content/ 46th St.), Suite 800 who-we-help/older-adult- New York, NY 10176 services/senior-centers.html (888) 561- 7223 The center offers lunches, www.cps.pace.edu/lifelong- educational, recreational, health learning/senior-programs-parc/ and wellness activities, tai chi, Membership to this program belly dancing, literature classes, allows seniors to attend lectures foreign language classes, legal on topics as varied as health services, Second Sundays arts to criminal justice and social performance series, discounted functions such as movies. theater tickets, and nutrition Members will also have access education. the Pace University Downtown Lunch tickets are distributed Campus Library and Computer from 10am to 11am. You Lab. must sign up for lunch before 11:45am. Lunch is served at Project FIND noon. A donation of $1.50 is 160 West 71st Street, #2F suggested. New York, NY 10023 (212) 874-0300 www.projectfind.org

66 Project FIND was established by Lunch: 12:15pm - 1:15pm (1st the National Council on Aging Seating), 1:15pm - 2:15pm (2nd and works to provide homeless Seating) and low- and moderate-income seniors with the services they Stein Senior Center need. They operate supportive 204 East 23rd Street housing residences and senior New York, NY 10010 centers. (646) 395-8083 www.steinseniorcenter.org/ SAGE Center Midtown about-us 305 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor The Stein Senior Center offers New York, NY 10001 lunch, early stage Alzheimer’s (646) 576-8669 support, nutrition talks, crime www.sageusa.org victims services, blood pressure SAGE, or Services & tests, tax preparation, flu Advocacy for LGBT Elders, is shots, arthritis exercise, opera a national organization that appreciation, knitting, birthday offers supportive services parties, bridge club, meditation, and consumer resources for strength training, play LGBT older adults and their reading, movies, Shakespeare, caregivers. Services offered at Yiddish club, and benefits and their Midtown location include: entitlements assistance. case management; caregiver support; benefits counseling; VISIONS Senior Center employment assistance; and 135 West 23rd Street arts, fitness and nutritional New York, NY 10011 classes. (646) 486-4444, ext. 16 www.visionsvcb.org/visions/ Senior Center at Our Lady of programs/isc Pompeii Church VISIONS is the first senior 25 Carmine Street center designed for adults who New York, NY 10014 are blind or severely visually (212) 989-3620 impaired. It is open from Lunch: 12:30pm - 1:30pm 9am - 8pm, Monday through Thursday, and from 9am - 6pm Senior Center on the Square on Fridays. A meal is offered 20 Washington Square North each day from 3:30pm - 5pm. New York, NY 10011 The center also provides (212) 777-3555, Ext.106 services ranging from benefits

67 assistance to health and wellness programs.

West Side Inter-Agency Council for the Aging Senior Center 241 West 72nd Street New York, NY 10023 (212) 799-7205 www.wsiaca.org/ resourcedirectory/?orgID=23 The Center offers lectures, performances, fine arts instruction, recreational activities, fitness activities, performing arts and musical workshops, and trips. They also have a social worker on site for referrals and counseling.

Woodstock Senior Center 127 West 43rd Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 575-0693 Breakfast and lunch are offered Tuesday through Sunday to seniors aged 60 years or older. ID to verify age is required. Services offered: breakfast (8:30am – 10am), computer room, Sunday art classes, monthly parties, homeless-in- reach program, shower facilities on weekday mornings, tai chi, exercise classes, and board games.

68 Technology Hours: 6:30am - 9:30pm (Mon - Fri); 8am- 4pm (Sun) Various organizations and Schedule: www.nycgovparks. city institutions offer free or org/facilities/recreationcenters/ reduced-price technology M130/schedule#CRC classes year-round. Below is a list of course offerings in our Gertrude Ederle Recreation district. Center 232 West 60th Street NYC Department of Parks & New York, NY 10023 Recreation: Computer Resource (212) 397-3159 Centers Hours: 6:30am - 9:30pm (Mon - The New York City Department Fri); 8am - 4pm (Sat & Sun) of Parks & Recreation provides Schedule: www.nycgovparks. basic instruction for seniors org/facilities/recreationcenters/ and others who have limited M063/schedule#CRC experience with computers, as well as instruction in topics like Tony Dapolito Recreation web browsing, Internet security, Center resume writing, and web design. 1 Clarkson Street All classes are free to Parks New York, NY, 10014 Department Recreation Center (212) 242-5418 members. Hours: 7am - 9:30pm (Mon - Fri); 9am - 4:30pm (Sat & Sun) Locations: Schedule: www.nycgovparks. Chelsea Recreation Center org/facilities/recreationcenters/ 430 West 25th Street M103/schedule/2015-10- New York, NY 10001 26#CRC (212) 255-3705 Hours: 6:30am- 10pm (Mon - TechOpps Fri); 8am - 4pm (Sat & Sun) (212) 255-3705 Schedule: www.nycgovparks. Email: [email protected] org/facilities/recreationcenters/ Available at all NYC Parks M260/schedule#CRC Computer Resource Centers– TechOpps is a program th East 54 Street Recreation offered through NYC Parks Center Computer Resource Centers, 348 East 54th Street where members can receive New York, NY 10022 free computer training in (212) 754-5411 69 Microsoft Office or Adobe to older adults in communities Creative Cloud. This program is across New York City. offered at Computer Resource Centers located throughout the OATS Senior Planet boroughs. Those who apply and Exploration Center are accepted into the program 127 West 25th Street will be expected to devote New York, NY 10001 12-15 hours per week for 6-8 (718) 360-1707 and weeks, in order to prepare (646) 590-0615 for certification as either a www.oats.org Microsoft Office Specialist or OATS provides computer and Adobe Certified Associate in technology training (classes at Visual Communication using both the introductory and ad- Adobe Creative Cloud. Upon vanced levels) for older adults, completion of this program, and operates an intergenera- each participant will be able to tional program with high school take a certification exam. The students to use technology to Adobe Certification Exams are promote cross-generational con- free to all members. Microsoft nections. Classes are also offered Office exams must be purchased at different locations throughout in advance of testing. New York City. New York Public Library 917-ASK-NYPL (917-275-6975) The New York Public Library’s TechConnect program offers more than 80 technology class- es at libraries throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island—all absolutely free. Older Adults Technology Ser- vices (OATS) 168 7th Street, Suite 3A Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 360-1707 www.oats.org OATS, operated by the NYC Parks & Recreation Department, provides free computer training 70 Transportation Project C.A.R.T. 11 Park Place, 14th Floor Many senior centers provide New York, NY 10007 free or reduced-price transpor- (212) 962-7559 tation programs for their mem- www.nyfsc.org/services/freet- bers. Contact your local senior rans.html center for more information (or Project C.A.R.T. provides free refer to any of the senior centers transportation van services mentioned in this guide). for senior citizens aged 60 or over who have difficulty using AAR (Access-A-Ride) public transportation. Vans are NYC Transit Customer Services th wheelchair accessible. C.A.R.T.’s 2 Broadway, 11 Floor five vans take seniors to and New York, NY 10004 from medical appointments (877) 337-2017 and hospitals, activities at se- www.web.mta.info/nyct/para- nior centers, and entitlement tran/guide.htm appointments. The vans operate AAR provides transportation Monday through Friday from for people with disabilities and 9am to 3:45pm; the vans are not seniors throughout NYC and available during lunch hours of nearby Nassau and Westchester 12pm to 1pm. counties. Parking Permits for People EasyPay MetroCard with Disabilities (NYC DOT) The Customer Service Center: 28-11 Queens Plaza North, 8th 3 Floor New York, NY 10004 Long Island City, NY 11101 5-1-1 or (212) 638-7622 (718) 433-3100 www.web.mta.info/metrocard/ If you are a New York City EasyPayXpress.htm resident with a disability that The EasyPay MetroCard is impairs your mobility, you can linked to your credit or debit apply for a City or State Parking card and refills automatically Permit for People with Disabil- as you use it so you don’t have ities. This permit allows drivers to wait in lines. Apply online or to park in any space labeled by call for an application or addi- the International Symbol of Ac- tional information. cess in the U.S. and Canada. To New York Foundation for Se- apply for a permit, visit: http:// nior Citizens (NYFSC): www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ 71 motorist/pppdinfo.shtml#ny- cpermit

Reduced-Fare MetroCards for customers 65+ The Customer Service Center: 3 Stone Street New York, NY 10004 5-1-1 or (212) 638-7622 www.web.mta.info/nyct/fare/ rfindex.htm The MTA offers reduced-fare MetroCards at a fare of $1.35 for customers aged 65 or older and for those with disabilities of any age.

72 Veterans New York, NY 10004 (212) 742-9591 For free assistance in accessing Hours: 8:30am - 4pm your veterans’ benefits, contact (Monday - Friday) your state, county, or local vet- erans benefits counselor at (888) NYC Veterans Alliance VETS-NYS / (888) 838-7697 or PO Box 532 (718) 447-8787. You can also visit New York, NY 10159 veterans.ny.gov for more infor- (347) 509-7838 mation about services available The NYC Veterans Alliance is a to veterans. nonpartisan, grassroots coalition dedicated to connecting NYC CUNY Veterans Affairs th veterans to organizations, ad- 555 West 57 Street vocating for improved policies 14th Floor, Suite 1401 that affect veterans and their New York, NY 10019 families, informing the NYC (646) 758-7677 veterans community and the Email: [email protected] public about policies and news www2.cuny.edu/about/univer- affecting them, and empowering sity-resources/veterans-affairs/ veterans to speak up and take The CUNY Office of Veterans action. Affairs is dedicated to fostering a sense of community and to NYS Division of Veteran Af- developing a channel of com- fairs - Manhattan Center munication among veteran and 423 East 23rd Street (between 1st reservist students, and with fac- Avenue & Asser Levy Place) ulty, staff, and administration. New York, NY 10010 (212) 686-7500 Veteran Center www.veterans.ny.gov 2279 Third Avenue (between rd th The division works closely with East 123 & 124 Streets) federal, state, municipal, and New York, NY 10035 private agencies to garner re- (212) 426-2200 or (646) 273-8139 sources and knowledge to help Hours: 8am - 4:30pm (Monday - Veterans and their families with Friday) economic, employment, rehabil- itation, medical treatment, home Manhattan Veterans Center nd health care, education, and tax 32 Broadway, 2 Floor, Suite 200 exemption needs. (between Morris St. and Exchange Place) 73 Robin Hood Foundation United War Veterans Veterans Council, Inc. 826 Broadway, 9th Floor 1 Centre Street New York, New York 10003 22nd Floor, #2208 (212) 227-6601 New York, NY 10007 www.robinhood.org/veterans (212) 693-1476 The Robin Hood Foundation The mission of the United (RHF) invests in programs and War Veterans Council is to initiatives that support and mobilize our communities to benefit veterans. RHF provides honor and support America’s access to services (education, veterans. UWVC hopes to unite employment, mental health, veterans groups, community housing, legal services, etc.) for organizations, city, state vets and their families. and federal agencies, local businesses, and the general SAGEVets public behind efforts to care for 305 Seventh Avenue, veterans of all eras. 15th Floor New York, NY 10001 USO of Metropolitan (212) 741-2247 x255 New York www.sageusa.org/nyc/ 625 Eighth Avenue (between sagevets/index.cfm West 40th & West 41st Streets) SAGEVets is a partnership New York, NY 10018 between SAGE (Services & (212) 695-6160 Advocacy for GLBT Elders) www.usonyc.org and the Veterans Justice/LGBT Hours: 8:30am - 7:30pm daily Projects of Legal Services NYC A nonprofit, congressionally to help LGBT older adults who chartered, private organization, are military service veterans the USO relies on the generosity improve their access to VA of individuals, organizations benefits and their overall health and corporations to support its and wellness. SAGEVets serves activities. Millions of times each LGBT veterans over the age year at hundreds of locations of 50 who reside in New York around the world, the USO lifts State. In addition to general the spirits of America’s troops assistance, SAGEVets will and their families. provide guidance to veterans impacted by the military’s policies regarding LGBT people.

74 Veterans’ Health Care Benefits (CHAMPVA) (800) 733-8387 www.va.gov/ COMMUNITYCARE/ programs/dependents/ champva/ The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) is a comprehensive health care program in which the VA shares the cost of covered health care services and supplies with eligible beneficiaries. General Benefits: (877) 222-VETS or (877) 222-8387

Yoga for Vets NYC Integral Yoga Institute (IYI) 227 West 13th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) New York, NY 10011 (212) 929-0586 Email: [email protected] www.yogaforvetsnyc.org Yoga for Vets NYC was founded in 2008 and is the longest running yoga and meditation program for veterans in NYC. Created by a former Marine, the class is taught by veterans, for veterans. Every veteran is welcome, regardless of physical ability, age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, discharge characterization or status, era of service, or other life experience. 75