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Tag: Trips

Viewing Party: A trip to Roosevelt Island

July 3, 2017
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| Categories: community, immigrant seniors, mental health, social isolation, Summer trip, Sunnyside, trips

Manhattan’s best kept secret is Roosevelt Island. Once host to insane asylums, prisons, hospital outpatients, and uniform Soviet style blocks, the island is now dotted with shiny new condos, swathes of grassy playing fields and gardens, and the brand new Four Freedoms Park. A famed tram (which had a star turn on “Spiderman”), runs between Manhattan’s 59th street and the…

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Cherry Blossom time at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

May 2, 2017
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| Categories: AAPI, AAPIheritagemonth, immigrant seniors, picnic, recreation, trips

  On the first truly warm day of the year, we took 45 seniors from our centers on a trip to the 100-year old Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. With the cherry blossoms in full gorgeous bloom,  our seniors were eager to to view the flowers. They began their tour at the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, which was the first Japanese Garden developed in the United…

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