Helen Keller Services celebrates opening of new Downtown center
At the opening of Downtown’s Helen Keller Service’s new multipurpose conference room, President and CEO Joe Bruno filled the room with the pride of well-earned accomplishment.
After passing a tortuous course of applications, inspections and requests for funding, HKS’s new center at 180 Livingston St. was finally ready to embrace a new generation of vision-impaired students from all five boroughs.
“This room can be divided into smaller conference rooms,” Bruno explained at the center’s official debut on Jan. 15, pointing to the panels folded into the ceiling just above everyone’s head. “We can turn one large room into half a dozen smaller ones to fit our needs.”