Legal Services Providers for PLWHA in

Providers by Borough

Bronx

Boom! Health  540 E. Fordham Rd., Bronx, NY 10458; phone: (718) 295-5605, email: [email protected]  Website: http://www.boomhealth.org/solutions/legal-services  Type: Housing, public benefits, family law and domestic violence, and advanced care directives/future care  Bronx residents only

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Legal Services - Legal Hotline: 917-661-4500  105 Court Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; phone: 718-237-5500  1360 Fulton Street, Suite 301, Brooklyn, NY 11216; phone: 718-636-1155  Website: http://www.legalservicesnyc.org/our-program/brooklyn  Type: public benefits denials, discrimination, housing access, immigration, and barriers to healthcare  Brooklyn residents only

Manhattan

Gay Men’s Health Crisis  446 W. 33rd St., New York, NY 10001; phone: 212-367-1134; email: legal@.org  Website: http://www.gmhc.org/gmhc-services/get-connected/legal-services  Type: Housing, benefits, estate planning, family law, discrimination, employment, bankruptcy and debt management, insurance, confidentiality, immigration  All boroughs  Note: To access legal services as a client, you must be a registered GMHC client living in New York City. To find out how to become a GMHC client, please call 212.367.1500.

Housing Works  81 Willoughby Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718.408.6500.

 Website: http://www.housingworks.org/heal/supportive-services/  For clients only – if you are enrolled in any care management based program at Housing Works, you will be eligible to receive legal services. Ask your care manager to sign you up.  Type: Landlord/tenant dispute issues, access to public assistance, child custody, preparation of wills, and discrimination law.

HIV Law Project – A Project of Housing Works  81 Willoughby Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; phone: 212-577-3001  Website: http://hivlawproject.org/  Type: housing and eviction prevention, immigration law, public and private benefit and health insurance issues, discrimination and HIV-related confidentiality issues, last wills and testaments and advanced planning, and debtor/creditor law  and Bronx only

Immigration Equality  40 Exchange Pl., Suite 1300, New York, NY 10005; phone: 212-714-2904  Website: http://www.immigrationequality.org/  Type: Immigration, asylum  All boroughs

Legal Action Center  225 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014; phone 212-243-1313, Toll-free 800-223-4044, Email: [email protected]  Website: www.lac.org  Type: Discrimination, proxies, wills, standby guardianships and family support services, government benefits, housing, testing, criminal record issues, and particular expertise in confidentiality and privacy  All boroughs

Legal Aid Society – HIV/AIDS Representation Project  230 E. 106th St., New York, NY 10029; phone: 212-426-3000  Website: http://www.legal-aid.org/en/civil/civilpractice/hivaidsrepresentationproject.aspx  Type: Government benefits, family law, consumer law, housing, estate planning, discrimination  All boroughs

Manhattan Legal Services – Lower Manhattan – Legal Hotline: 917-661-4500  40 Worth St. Suite #606, New York, NY 10013; phone: 646-442-3100  Website: http://www.legalservicesnyc.org/our-program/manhattan  Type: public benefits denials, discrimination, housing access, immigration, and barriers to healthcare  Manhattan residents only

Manhattan Legal Services – Upper Manhattan – Legal Hotline: 917-661-4500  1 W. 125th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10027; phone: 646-442-3100  Website: http://www.legalservicesnyc.org/our-program/manhattan  Type: public benefits denials, discrimination, housing access, immigration, and barriers to healthcare

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Queens

Queens Legal Services  89-00 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435; phone: 347-592-2200  Website: http://www.legalservicesnyc.org/our-program/queens  Type: public benefits denials, discrimination, housing access, immigration, and barriers to healthcare  Queens residents only

Staten Island

Staten Island Legal Services  36 Richmond Terrance, Suite 205, Staten Island, NY 10301; phone: 718-233-6480  Website: http://www.legalservicesnyc.org/our-program/staten-island  Type: public benefits, housing, immigration, discrimination, name changes, social security disability benefits, and wills and estate planning.  Staten Island residents only

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