The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center has opened its second Flushing site, with expanded services for older adults in the community.
City Offers Rent Freezes For Senior Citizens
A new initiative aims to help senior citizens struggling to pay for housing.
These 20 Heroes Under 40 Give Millennials a Good Name
How do you recover from an enormous loss, especially something as incomprehensible as the murders of your mother, brother and young nephew?
A world of benefits and services in NYC
The face of Queens is getting older, as is the rest of New York City. Fortunately, a wide range of both public and private services exists for the “gray market.”
A confident de Blasio comes to Queens
At a mostly cordial town hall in Bayside Monday evening, Mayor Bill de Blasio fielded pointed questions on quality-of-life issues in northern Queens and worked to connect them to his administration’s housing affordability push, especially for seniors.
Seniors Plead With City Council to Pass Mayor’s Rezoning Plan ‘As-Is’
Many elderly New Yorkers want the City Council to pass Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan as is because they “don’t have time” to wait for a long bureaucratic process to play out amid a housing crisis for seniors.
Queens Councilman Saves Three Senior Centers From Closing
City Councilman Daniel Dromm presented a check for almost $300,000 to the “Naturally Occurring Retirement Community” program in Jackson Heights Wednesday.
A Virtual Senior Center Spreads Across the US
You might not walk down a city street to meet a friend or go to your local community center without fixing yourself up a bit first. So if you never go out, where’s the incentive?
Virtual Senior Center in Flushing Expands Programs
Homebound Mandarin-speaking seniors get a chance to take classes all over the world — right from their living room.
JCC choir goes viral
The Golden Notes Senior Choir of the Marion and Aaron Gural JCC sung for the members of the Selfhelp Virtual Center in a Feb. 2 performance that was streamed live over the Internet.
