Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a 116-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated evidence-based services--social, educational, legal, housing, health, mental health and fitness--which significantly improve the lives of 20,000 people in need each year, ages 3 to 103, on the East Side of Manhattan.

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House was founded in 1894 by the Alumnae Association of Normal College (now known as Hunter College of the City University of New York) as a free kindergarten for the children of indigent immigrants. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of community advocacy and social and educational change. We have long been a center of community leadership in addressing such issues as affordable housing, poor working conditions, health care, hunger, early childhood education, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, juvenile delinquency, crime prevention and long-term care for older adults.