Sixth Street Community Center is a not-for-profit community based organization. It began in 1978 as a block association organized by single mothers living on East 6th Street between Avenues B and C in the Lower East Side. These neighborhood women decided to organize to transform the meager conditions they were forced to live in: streets lined with abandoned buildings, poverty, crime and despair. They made it their mission to create a better and safer community in which to raise their families. One of their first efforts was to work with the City to seal up abandoned buildings that had become vulnerable to drug trafficking and crime. When the former synagogue at 638 East 6th Street became vacant, the block association had found a home. With the support of Save The Children and other foundations, funds were raised to purchase the building and turn it into a community center.

From its begining Sixth Street Community Center has fostered economic and community development through a variety of programs including aftershool and summer camps, tenants rights and entitlement advocacy, and life skills and career development for teens. More recently, beginning in 1996, the Community Center has initiated projects that bring youth and community residents together around issues of sustainable agriculture, health and nutrition through our Community Supported Agriculture, Seeds To Supper and SOS Food programs. Sixth Street Community Center is a 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.