EncoreCommunityServices.org
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Encore Community Services | Senior Support & Senior Housing
Description
More than fifty years ago, the Actors' Chapel at St. Malachy’s Church on West 49th Street was visited by some of New York’s most famous theater faces. It was almost a home away from home for many Broadway stars. George M. Cohan, Rosalind Russell, Helen Hayes and Spencer Tracy could be found lighting votive candles on opening night. It was the Chapel where Douglas Fairbanks exchanged wedding vows with Joan Crawford, and Fred Allen and Pat O’Brien served as altar boys. When Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, thousands gathered at St. Malachy’s to pay a final tribute.
Today however, the Actors’ Chapel serves a different purpose. It is now home to Encore Community Services, a nonprofit dedicated to giving the many elderly men and women residing in this famous midtown theater district and neighboring Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton community an “encore” to life. Many of the elderly served by Encore are frail and live alone with little to no support networks of family and friends.
One of the first efforts of Encore was to develop the Encore Senior Center. With funding obtained under the Older Americans Act, the under-utilized Actors’ Chapel was totally renovated and transformed into what is today a vibrant, dynamic and fully handicapped-accessible community center.
Contact
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- NY New York
- United States 10019
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- +1.2125812910
