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Center @ Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Opens with Party on New Year's Day
The new Center @ Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, one of the City's eight Innovative Senior Centers, opened its doors to over 300 older adults for a New Year's Party on January 1. Highlights of the party included a live jazz band, a TV showing the day's football games, and giveaways for all attendees that included fresh clementines and reusable tote bags designed for the occasion. The party also featured a healthy and hearty meal prepared by our new Executive Chef, Lynn Loflin. Lynn and her staff served vegetarian chili with black beans and sweet potatoes, BBQ brisket, grits with cheddar cheese, a salad with arugula, red leaf lettuce, radicchio, apples, celery, toasted pumpkin seeds and a fresh herb-Dijon vinaigrette, and apple cranberry crisp. Starting on New Year's Day, the Center is now open 365 days a year.
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Shop at Saks Fifth Avenue to Benefit Lenox Hill Neighborhood House!
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House has been selected, with 4 other charities, to be the recipient of Saks Fifth Avenue's February promotion. The Neighborhood House will receive 5% of all sales made when the shopper uses her/his Saks Fifth Avenue credit card (or a Saks Fifth Avenue co-branded Master Card) in the New York City Saks Fifth Avenue store. In order to assure that the Neighborhood House receives the proceeds of your purchase, you will need to register your Saks card at the store and designate Lenox Hill Neighborhood House as your beneficiary for the promotion. The Neighborhood House will benefit throughout February.
Click here for rules and restrictions.
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January Second Sundays Performance by New York Mandolin Ensemble
Our January Second Sundays show on January 8 featured a performance by the New York Mandolin Ensemble. The Ensemble performed original works and music from around the world showcasing the mandolin family of instruments.
For more pictures of the event, check out our Facebook page.
The next Second Sundays performance will take place on February 12, featuring the Tap City Youth Ensemble, a project of the American Tap Dance Foundation.
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Dina Zempsky, LCSW, has joined Lenox Hill Neighborhood House as our new Director of Case Management. Dina is a graduate of Syracuse University (BFA) and Columbia School of Social Work, and comes to us with extensive and varied experience in social work and aging. Most recently, Dina worked as the Director of Caregiver Services at Heights and Hills in Brooklyn. Prior to this, she was, among other things, the Program Manager at StoryCorps, where she worked on their Memory Loss Initiative. Dina also worked first as a geriatric care manager doing individual psychotherapy for older adults for a decade and then as the Director of the Partnership for Eldercare from 1996-2000 at the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA). Dina is leading our fabulous case management team of social workers and case managers, who provide assistance to more than 1,000 frail and often homebound seniors each year on the East Side of Manhattan from 14th Street to 143rd Street.
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