Sixth Street Community Center
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission and History
    • SSCC Team
    • Year in Review 2020-2021
    • Funders and Support
    • Jobs
  • CSA
    • Join Winter/Spring CSA 2023
    • Join Summer/Fall CSA 2022
    • CSA Newsletter / Blog
    • Wild Alaskan Fish
  • Programs & Events
    • COVID19- Emergency Food Distribution >
      • Our Volunteers
    • Free COVID19 Testing
    • Sixth Street Teen Program >
      • Teen Climate Justice Program Zine // Summer 2022
      • Teen Climate Justice Blog
    • Sixth Street Youth Program >
      • Sixth Street After School
      • Summer At Sixth Street
      • SSYP x Cardone Magic Arts
      • SSYP ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS
    • Volunteer Program
    • Sixth Street Synergy
    • ABC Sanctuary
    • Disaster Preparedness
    • Composting Program
    • Organic Soul Café
    • Host an Event
  • Organizing Work
    • No NBK Pipeline
    • Public Power
    • Community Land Trust - E 6th Street
    • Save East River Park!
    • Two Bridges: No Towers No Compromise
  • On the Line
  • Youth Program Blog
  • Contact Us
    • Volunteer
  • Archival
    • Past Events
    • Fundraising Letter
    • Summer-Fall CSA Sample Deliveries
    • Winter -Spring Sample Deliveries
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission and History
    • SSCC Team
    • Year in Review 2020-2021
    • Funders and Support
    • Jobs
  • CSA
    • Join Winter/Spring CSA 2023
    • Join Summer/Fall CSA 2022
    • CSA Newsletter / Blog
    • Wild Alaskan Fish
  • Programs & Events
    • COVID19- Emergency Food Distribution >
      • Our Volunteers
    • Free COVID19 Testing
    • Sixth Street Teen Program >
      • Teen Climate Justice Program Zine // Summer 2022
      • Teen Climate Justice Blog
    • Sixth Street Youth Program >
      • Sixth Street After School
      • Summer At Sixth Street
      • SSYP x Cardone Magic Arts
      • SSYP ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS
    • Volunteer Program
    • Sixth Street Synergy
    • ABC Sanctuary
    • Disaster Preparedness
    • Composting Program
    • Organic Soul Café
    • Host an Event
  • Organizing Work
    • No NBK Pipeline
    • Public Power
    • Community Land Trust - E 6th Street
    • Save East River Park!
    • Two Bridges: No Towers No Compromise
  • On the Line
  • Youth Program Blog
  • Contact Us
    • Volunteer
  • Archival
    • Past Events
    • Fundraising Letter
    • Summer-Fall CSA Sample Deliveries
    • Winter -Spring Sample Deliveries
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

Mission

Sixth Street Community Center is a community-based not-for-profit organization founded in 1978 and committed to advancing social, environmental, housing, economic and racial justice in the East Village and Lower East Side community. We believe that people of all backgrounds and incomes in New York City have the right to a safe, clean, and healthy environment and have their basic needs met with dignity and respect. Our mission is as follows:
  1. Provide emergency services and act as an emergency hub in response to community crises around extreme weather, food shortages and economic insecurity. 
  2. Expand food access and affordability of fresh, organic, locally farmed foods to neighborhood families and promote sustainable food systems through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program and urban farming workshops.
  3. Educate/ train youth and teens about equitable urban living, sustainable urban agriculture and climate justice action empowering them to become active and engaged climate leaders.
  4. Engage our diverse community through outreach and organizing on critical environmental justice campaigns. We strategize and advocate for community led solutions that address the root causes of the climate crisis.​

History

In 1978, a group of single mothers living on East 6th Street between Avenues B and C formed a block association. Exhausted by the decrepit condition of their neighborhood where they were struggling to raise their children and improve their environmental conditions, they actively visioned that through joint effort they could foster positive change for their community. One of their first organized efforts was to advocate for the City to seal up abandoned buildings, which they saw was essential to reducing drug trafficking and crime.  

After many years of grassroots organizing and fundraising, the block association was finally able to purchase and renovate the abandoned synagogue at 638 E Sixth Street— from that moment Sixth Street Community Center was born.

Since its inception, Sixth Street Community Center has fostered economic and community development through a variety of programs including after school and summer programs, tenants rights and entitlement advocacy, and life skills and career development for teens. Beginning in 1996, Sixth Street Community Center initiated projects that bring youth and community residents together around issues of sustainable urban living, sustainable agriculture, environmental advocacy, health and nutrition through our Community Supported Agriculture, Seeds To Supper, and SOS Food programs.

Today Sixth Street Community Center (SSCC) offers nearly 200 local youth unique after school and summer programs. We are dedicated to empowering our youth to be active and engaged leaders and organizers in their community. Our youth programs focus on addressing the climate crisis, educating and spreading awareness on local environmental justice issues through on the ground community outreach, public arts projects, local partnerships and public engagement.
Sixth Street Community Center
638 E 6th Street between Aves B & C  • (212)-677-1863 

© 2014 Sixth Street Community Center. All rights reserved.