Riverside Language Program
Agency Location:
270 W 89th Street (between Broadway & West End Avenue), New York, NY 10024
Agency Description:
Riverside Language Program is NYC's sole provider of free, full-time English language, IT skills and civics classes, for newly-arrived adult asylees, refugees and immigrants. Our classes meet from 9am-3pm, Monday-to Friday inclusive. We serve a minimum of 81 ALE students per year. Admission is by lottery (held six times per year) and applicants can find our eligibility requirements and a calendar of our lotteries and classes on our website www.riversidelanguage.org
Agency Highlight:
Bella came to Riverside from her native Dominican Republic. She took two, six-week intensive (9-3pm, M-F), class cycles with teachers Elizabeth and Lindsay and improved her English sufficiently to land a part-time job as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
As well as working, Bella now studies in the CUNY Start program that will prepare her for her goal - to study at CUNY for a future career in nursing. Bella is a wonderful example of Riverside's hard-working ALE students, with a bright future as a working New Yorker!.
Registration Information:
For information on eligibility for Riverside, lottery dates and class cycle dates, please call 212 662 3200 ext: 0.
Information and advice is available from our staff, who speak Russian, Spanish, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese and many of whom are graduates of our program.
Alternatively, please visit our offices at 270 W 89th Street, New York, NY 10024, between 9.30am and 4pm, or email [email protected]
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270 W 89th Street (between Broadway & West End Avenue), New York, NY 10024
Agency Description:
Riverside Language Program is NYC's sole provider of free, full-time English language, IT skills and civics classes, for newly-arrived adult asylees, refugees and immigrants. Our classes meet from 9am-3pm, Monday-to Friday inclusive. We serve a minimum of 81 ALE students per year. Admission is by lottery (held six times per year) and applicants can find our eligibility requirements and a calendar of our lotteries and classes on our website www.riversidelanguage.org
Agency Highlight:
Bella came to Riverside from her native Dominican Republic. She took two, six-week intensive (9-3pm, M-F), class cycles with teachers Elizabeth and Lindsay and improved her English sufficiently to land a part-time job as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
As well as working, Bella now studies in the CUNY Start program that will prepare her for her goal - to study at CUNY for a future career in nursing. Bella is a wonderful example of Riverside's hard-working ALE students, with a bright future as a working New Yorker!.
Registration Information:
For information on eligibility for Riverside, lottery dates and class cycle dates, please call 212 662 3200 ext: 0.
Information and advice is available from our staff, who speak Russian, Spanish, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese and many of whom are graduates of our program.
Alternatively, please visit our offices at 270 W 89th Street, New York, NY 10024, between 9.30am and 4pm, or email [email protected]
Click here to visit the Riverside Language Program Website!
Click Here to Read More Agency Highlights
