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Renovations to our building in Sunnyside were among 14 projects selected for funding secured by U.S. Representative Nydia M. Velázquez. The $450,000 allocated to SCS will improve our building’s accessibility and efficiency. Read the full article in QNS here.
Photo above: Representative Nydia Velázquez and SCS Executive Director Judy Zangwill at SCS in 2022.
Members of our Center for Active Older Adults, along with SCS staff and supporters, gathered on March 6 with other community members and organizations to rally in support of increased funding for services and to denounce proposed cuts to senior centers throughout the city. Read the article online here.
Photo above: Photo by Celia Bernhardt of the Queens Ledger.
Members of our Center for Active Older Adults and SCS staff members gathered for a morning of advocacy at Queens Borough Hall on March 7. They joined other organizations in calling on elected officials to continue to support programs that make the lives of older adults better – programs like discounted transit fares, meal delivery, and lively community centers. Steven Raga, Assemblymember for District 30, stood alongside community members. Remarks were given by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards; SCS Head of Case Management, Jolene Boden; and Jenny Molina, a member of our Older Adult Center.
Read the QNS article here.
On March 3rd, members of our Center for Active Older Adults and SCS staff marched in the 2023 St. Pat’s For All Parade. The parade, held every year along Skillman Avenue in Woodside and Sunnyside, Queens, celebrates Irish culture and identity with an inclusive event that welcomes everyone. See photos from this year’s event below.
Read an op-ed about elder abuse by Shyvonne Noboa, SCS’ Associate Executive Director for Older Adult Services. Learn how our new Elder Justice program will help prevent elder abuse in Queens. The op-ed can be found on the Sunnyside Post website here.
Read about a recent fundraiser event to benefit Sunnyside residents displaced by a devastating fire on December 20. The Queens Ledger spoke to SCS Executive Director Judy Zangwill, Councilmember Julie Won, one of the event organizers, Ty Sullivan, and other supporters about how the community came together to help the displaced residents. Read more.
Photo by Celia Bernhardt of the Queens Ledger.
A community fundraiser held at SCS in January raised $10,000 for residents displaced by a devastating fire in an apartment building in Sunnyside, Queens.
SCS Executive Director Judy Zangwill was interviewed for the article: “We want to do everything we can to ease the burden when something like this happens and we’re just happy that we have the ability to provide space. This is a community that always rallies. Unfortunately, we’ve had a few crises in this community during my time here and it always comes together and really just supported their neighbors in whatever way they could.”
Read the full article here.
NY1 spoke to Judy Zangwill, SCS Executive Director, and Brian Murray, co-organizer of the fundraiser event held at SCS to benefit residents displaced by devastating fire in Sunnyside, Queens. Watch the NY1 clip here.
The Sunnyside Post talked to Sunnyside community leader Ty Sullivan and SCS Executive Director Judy Zangwill about a fundraiser to benefit residents who were impacted by an apartment building fire on December 20. Read more.
The Queens Ledger spoke with SCS Executive Director Judy Zangwill about efforts to assist the residents of an apartment building that caught fire in December, forcing hundreds of people out of their homes just days before Christmas. Read the article here.
Photo from the Queens Ledger.