to an operator.
“We are thrilled to re-open
Midwood Neighborhood Center
to serve active adults,” said
Paul Curiale, executive director
at Millennium Development
Corporation, which runs
the senior center. “Great days
ahead!”
More than 200 locals reunited
over a meal and danced
to the music of the Midwood Senior
Choir during the openingday
festivities at the facility’s
new digs inside Ralph Avenue
synagogue Congregation Beit
Hillel between Avenues L and
K.
And a local pol thanked
those center members who
waited patiently to return to
their clubhouse after the lease
on its old space expired last
June, promising many happy
days of socializing ahead now
that the facility is back up and
running.
“I’m proud that we were
able to get you all a home — it’s
been far too long,” said Councilman
Jumaane Williams,
who brought his own mother
along for the occasion. “People
were scattered, friends want to
see each other and hang out,
and now they have a place.”
Still Jewish Family owned
and Independently operated
BY NATALLIE ROCHA
They got their groove — and
their center — back!
Oldsters displaced from
their beloved Midwood Neighborhood
Center recently returned
to their clubhouse, after
operators cut the ribbon to
re-open its new Flatlands location.
The senior center’s Feb.
4 grand re-opening followed
months of limbo for its members,
who went without a gathering
place after the owner
of its previous space for more
than a decade refused to renew
the facility’s lease last year , according
STILL SERVING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BROOKLYN AT OUR NEW LOCATION
1700 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Our helpful and experienced staff remains the same
Our telephone number remains the same
718-338-1500
COURIER L 4 IFE, FEB. 15–21, 2019 M BR B G
NEW BEGINNINGS: (From left): Local pols and luminaries including female
59th Assembly District Leader Sue Ann Partnow, far left, former
Canarsie Councilman Lew Fidler, middle left, and Flatbush Councilman
Jumaane Williams, center left, joined Midwood Neighborhood Center
staff to reopen the facility. Williams and center leader Jackie Florio held
the snipped ribbon in celebration. Photos by Steve Solomonson
Midwood senior center reopens