The Hudson Guild

In the late 1800's immigrants moved into the Chelsea neighborhood. These new residents were predominantly Irish and Greek, but also included Italians and Germans as well as African-Americans from the South. They took jobs as freight handlers, long shoremen and factory workers in the shipping and industrial area that sprang up west of 10th Avenue and along the waterfront.

In 1910, the annual report from the Hudson Guild describes the institutions work as an "attempt to get the people of the district themselves to be the regenerators of their own neighborhood...The purpose of the Guild is to bring about active cooperation between different individuals and different classes for a single aim - that aim is being an attempt to learn how to live in a city."

"John Lovejoy Elliot founded the Hudson Guild, our successful neighborhood settlement house. The Hudson Guild Senior Services/Fulton Center is an active part of Hudson Guild and I love being part of the center's activities."

Ronni Traub, member Fulton Center