New Rochelle, NY—Westhab is pleased to announce that a newly renovated building on Fountain Place in New Rochelle has reached full occupancy. 21 Fountain Place, which formerly served as student housing for Monroe College, received a substantial renovation to provide affordable and transitional housing for 52 families. The building is being leased by Westhab from […]
Author Archive: Maureen Natkin
One Step Closer to Dayspring
On October 22, 2019, Westhab’s real estate development team, led by Senior Vice President Andrew Germany, headed to Manhattan for the financial closing of the $45 million Dayspring Campus project. The project includes the construction of Dayspring Commons (a 63-unit, brand-new, high-quality affordable and supportive rental building designed with families in mind) as well as […]
Changing Lives—Eric’s Story
At the beginning of 2018, Eric was sleeping on his mother’s living room floor; his infant son was sleeping beside him in a portable crib. After living nearly 10 years in American Samoa, where he had worked primarily as a network engineer, Eric had just moved back to New York. For 30 years, he had […]
My Summer Internship at Westhab
This post was authored by our summer intern, Fritz Pingel. Fritz, a Bronxville resident, is a recent graduate of The Masters School and will be attending Lafayette College in the fall. We were very lucky to have such a hard-working, competent young person in our office this summer. Click above to read his story.
Westhab’s 16th Annual Golf Classic Raises Over $198,000
What a day! It was a wonderful day of golf, dinner, and celebration at Westhab’s 16th Annual Golf Classic at GlenArbor Golf Club in Bedford Hills, NY. Along with the skill of many of our golfers, the generosity of our sponsors and friends was also on prominent display as we raised more than $198,000 to […]
Bob Petrocelli gives $100,000 to Westhab’s Dayspring Community Center
On Thursday, June 6, 2019, Petrocelli Financial Services Founder Bob Petrocelli visited the Dayspring Community Center to present Westhab with $100,000 for its ambitious project to renovate a grand but dilapidated church building in the Nodine Hill neighborhood of Yonkers into a state-of-the-art community center. According to Westhab President and CEO Rich Nightingale, “From the […]
Westhab’s Inaugural Celebration Dinner Was a Resounding Success
On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 260 people joined Westhab at the Brae Burn Country Club for its inaugural Building Communities. Changing Lives. Celebration Dinner. More than $250,000 was raised to help Westhab deliver for the people and communities that rely on its services. Westhab President and CEO Rich Nightingale was “honored and humbled by the […]
Join Us at Our Inaugural Celebration Dinner
We hope you will join us at our inaugural Celebration Dinner on Tuesday, May 7, at the Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase, New York to help us celebrate Building Communities and Changing Lives in Westchester County and beyond. We are fortunate to have three tremendous and deserving honorees for the celebration: J.P. Morgan Chase […]
Westhab and Furniture Sharehouse – An Origin Story
Westhab is Furniture Sharehouse’s original member agency, and, as Kate Bialo likes to say, “It was all Bob Miller’s fault.” It all began in 2005 when Bialo was a volunteer at the Junior League of Westchester on the Sound (JLWOS). The league operated a thrift shop in Larchmont where, from time to time, residents would […]
Hackley and Westhab – Service-Learning in Action at Ludlow Commons
It started almost by accident. Westhab board member and Hackley School parent Jonalie Korengold had just finished teaching her weekly chair yoga class at Westhab’s Ludlow Commons when she fell into a conversation with Lynda Zezze, Ludlow’s case manager. The chair yoga class, which Jonalie conceived of and had been teaching for over a year, […]