OUR COMMUNITY RESPONDS
Every year in September we celebrate National Kids Day by hosting a street festival in front of our flagship Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse to launch fall enrollment and programming. Speakers and performers address the multitude from a moveable stage provided by the Parks Department. This photo is taken from that stage.
We came to the Bronx in 1969, leaving Manhattan’s East Side, in order to serve a population that had greater needs. We stayed and grew – expanding the Palmaro Clubhouse twice, adding services in the public schools, becoming the first Boys & Girls Club to operate in homeless shelters, building a sports complex, establishing Housing Authority sites, and securing a long-term lease to Camp Sebago in Harriman State Park, in addition to building the Frederic R. & Margaret Coudert Clubhouse in the West Bronx Heights. Most importantly, we connected with the people in each community that we came to. And the community responded – sending their children, and those children grew up and sent their children. Now we are getting the grandchildren of those first children who came to a nascent Palmaro Clubhouse, built on a White Plains Road that was not yet paved beyond our corner.
Join our community of patrons DANIEL QUINTERO, 718-893-8600x240, daniel.quintero@kipsbay.org JAMES P. DRUCKMAN, 212-679-9500x15, jdruckman@nydc.com
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