The New HES is a community center located in the southeast Brooklyn community, serving approximately 700 people every day, which accounts for more than 165,000 visits each year. We are the area’s major source of educational, recreational, cultural, fitness, sports and social-service programs for area residents and annually provide services to more than 7,000 participants. Founded in 1899 as a “settlement house” for thousands of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, HES is now serving the diverse populations living in Brooklyn and southwest Queens including Jewish and African-American families and a large population of immigrant families from the Caribbean, Asia, Israel and the former Soviet Union.
The agency is critically important as the primary source of support for working parents and their children, especially the numerous modest income families living in our area. More than 65 percent of HES’s family participants are single-parent and two-working parent families Without HES, they would have little access to much-needed social services, childcare and recreational activities including a senior center, senior nutrition site, childcare, after-school care, literacy center, youth and adult programs.
The agency is open to local community and civic groups to hold meetings. More than 15 local groups and associations make use of the HES from the 69th Precinct Community Council and United South Canarsie Civic Association to the Brooklyn Hebrew Society of the Deaf and the Tzivot Hashem Youth Group |
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