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Good Neighbor Awards are presented annually by Goddard
Riverside Community Center to those people who voluntarily
do something extraordinary to improve community life
or help their neighbors on the Upper West Side.
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Seventh
Annual Neighbor to Neighbor Dinner
Goddard Riverside Community Center
May 5, 2007
Front Row (L to R)
Anita Fiorillo (Dinner Co-Chair), Evie Joselow
(Awards Committee Chair); Good Neighbor Awardees
Susan Susman, Milagros Lopez, James Freund
Back Row (L to R)
Awardees Bruce Nichols, Carole Singleton, Michael
Marian (Representing The Guadians of the Temple
of the Lord), Richard Slade (Representing the
Softball Coaches and Umpires); Stephan Russo
(Executive Director, Goddard Riverside), Peter
Meyer (Dinner Co-Chair)
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The following people are the
2007 Awardees:
James C. Freund: for his extensive community
service and generosity with seniors and youth of the
Upper West Side, for his leadership of the chorus,
his piano playing for weekly sing alongs at Goddard
Riverside and Hamilton Senior Centers and for his
photography projects with high school students.
Milagros Lopez:
for her devotion to the homebound and the hospitalized,
for her exemplary work at the Senior Center and with
the Mount Sinai Community Board and for her decorating
and artistic contributions.
Bruce Nichols:
for his outstanding leadership of the Edgecombe Block
Association, for his devotion to the residents of
Corner House providing them with holiday celebrations
and home delivered meals, an annual barbecue, a Super
Bowl Party and trips to the theater and for establishing
a safer neighborhood with a play street for children
with breakfasts and lunches and job opportunities
for teens.
Carole Singleton:
for her courageous advocacy as a tenant leader, her
passion for social justice, her vision for a city-wide
tenant base and years of selfless and dynamic service
to victimized tenants of scandal-ridden 203k and 203b
housing.
Softball Coaches
and Umpires: a group award to the coaches and
umpires, Julius Bryan, Michael Gilfillan, William
Kelly, Deyan Landa, Marta Santiago, Juan Sierra and
Richard Slade in Goddard Riverside’s Childrens
Spring Softball League for their diligence in teaching
boys and girls teamwork, skills and sportsmanship.
This group, who for the most part were former players
in the league, are devoted to giving back that which
they learned as youth.
Susan Susman:
for her passionate advocacy and outstanding leadership
in preserving affordable, Mitchell Lama housing. As
a member of the Mitchell Lama Residents Coalition,
a founder and activist in the Preserve West Park North
Coalition and as president of the Central Park Gardens
Tenants’ Association, she has been an invaluable
motivator, organizer and information source for the
neighborhood and beyond.
The Guardians
of the Temple of the Lord: a group award to
these devoted women who for years have been the backbone
of The Church of Saint Gregory the Great. They fought
with petitions and letters to keep the church from
being closed, maintain the church sweeping, vacuuming,
washing and polishing each Saturday morning, hold
mutiple fund raising activities, send Christmas gifts
of toys and clothing to the Dominican Republic and
collect and distribute food for their neighbors in
need.
The Good Neighbor Awards Committee congratulates
the award winners, and is grateful to everyone who
participated in this process. The Seventh Annual Good
Neighbor Awards were presented at the Neighbor to
Neighbor Dinner on May
5, 2007.
- Executive Director’s
Remarks from the Good Neighbor Awards Dinner
- 2006 Good Neighbor Awardees
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