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A Flushing senior center that serves 700 elders just closed over roof leaks, and NYCHA is getting an earful

The Latimer Gardens Older Adult Center in Flushing, serving 700 seniors, has closed due to persistent roof leaks, disrupting meals and social services for vulnerable elders and displacing youth programs too.

A Flushing senior center that serves 700 elders just closed over roof leaks, and NYCHA is getting an earful

The Latimer Gardens Older Adult Center in Flushing, serving 700 seniors, has closed due to persistent roof leaks, disrupting meals and social services for vulnerable elders and displacing youth programs too.

About 700 seniors in Flushing lost a place they use every day. The Latimer Gardens Older Adult Center, inside the NYCHA complex of the same name, has been temporarily closed because of persistent roof leaks. The closure cuts off meals, services, and the daily social life that hundreds of older adults rely on.

This could read as routine building maintenance, but the center matters to the people who use it. For many of those 700 elders, it is where they get a hot…

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Filed underFlushing / Grace Meng / Latimer Gardens / NYC / NYCHA / Sandra Ung / Seniors

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