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Henry Street Settlement

A Settlement House and a Family

Richard Abrons | Posted 03.06.2013 | New York
Richard Abrons

At 86, the past is very much with me now. And so is the future. I look back with nostalgia. I look forward with excitement. 120 years of unbroken caring between a settlement house and our family!

My Lunch Group

Richard Abrons | Posted 01.04.2013 | Fifty
Richard Abrons

I am part of a NYC lunch group that has met for lunch once a month for the past fifteen years and is still going strong. There are six of us, all in our mid-eighties. Some of us have been friends for 72 years; others, a mere 50 years.

Hardcore Performance

Risa Shoup | Posted 07.11.2011 | New York
Risa Shoup

The performances of Object Collection upset our notions of space, time, narrative, sound, and just about every base element of time-based work that we think we know something about.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: Victory Among a Century's Tears

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Richard Z. Chesnoff

With the exception of September 11, 2001, no disaster has ever traumatized New York more than the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911 -- 100 years ago this weekend.

Downtown With Weimar-New York

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Richard Z. Chesnoff

Earl Dax, the socially minded Albuquerque born producer, recently re-staged his outrageous production of Weimar-New York for a special two night run at the Henry Street Settlement's classy Abrons Theater.