Goddard Riverside Community Center

1959 - present

In 1959, Goddard Neighborhood Center and the Riverside Community House merged to form the Goddard-Riverside Community Center. The consolidation of the two settlement houses was in response to plans for urban renewal on the city's Upper West Side and the massive changes it would bring to the city's West Side between 87th and 97th Streets. Goddard sponsored programs for children, teenagers, young adults, and senior citizens living in the area. These efforts took place at the community center on West 87th Street and at other locations, including nearby public schools and the center's 135 acre summer camp located in Rifton, New York. In operation today, the Goddard Riverside Community Center supports broad programming for neighborhood residents that includes music and art instruction, drug prevention, and youth participatory action research.

Front of Goddard Riverside Building
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Details

Category
Social Settlement House
Audience
All Ages
Corporate Body
The United Neighborhood Houses
Tags
consolidation, socialwelfare, community, civicaction, extracurricular, adulteducation, recreation, UpperWestSide

Connections

Location

  • 593 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024, USA
    1983 - present
  • 161-163 W 87th St, New York, NY 10024, USA
    1959 - c. 1983

Archival Collections

References

  1. "Home for New Center: Goddard-Riverside to Start Work July 1 on West Side." New York Times, May 18, 1959, 22. James Moske. Goddard-Riverside Community Center, Finding Aid. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, 2001.