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One of my first actions as the executive director of Goddard Riverside in 1998 was to try to purchase 106-108 West 83rd Street and convert it into permanent housing.

"This is not a shelter," Jones told the committee members, emphatically. "We do not do shelters."

Stephan Russo remembers his first staff meeting at Goddard Riverside Community Center. It was 1976 and he was 25 years old, not the executive director of the