The Villager – Lifeforce in Later Years

I will never forget the day I stood in a family apartment whose occupants had moved out but whose “stuff” remained, quite a lot anyway. It was my job to deal with it. I had met Irene only casually but nonetheless had shared my bewilderment…

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Matthew Morrison

Matthew is a dedicated LiLY volunteer and health advocate. Dr. Morrison is an Emergency Physician at BronxCare Health System, and teaches the next generation of doctors studying at Yale with a focus on Medical Humanities. He is…

Norma MT Braun, MD, FACP, FCCP

Photo IDClinical Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine Mount. Sinai Morningside (St. Luke’s) – Mt. Sinai West (Roosevelt) Ombudswoman and Chair, Archives Committee Department of Medicine: Senior Attending, Pulmonary/…

Jennifer Beisser

Jennifer Beisser joins LiLY’s board after five years as a volunteer. She is the current Executive Director of the Morningside Area Alliance, a 70-year old membership association of the nation’s leading academic and religious…

Audrey Wu

Audrey Wu is a printmaking and mixed media artist whose work is in collections in America, Europe and Asia. She is also a veteran producer with over twenty years of experience of executive conferences, summits and thought-leadership…

John Hailu

John Hailu began his career in Information Technology in 1977. He has worked as a Performance Analyst at Citibank. He was a Systems Programmer and Systems Administrator for nine years for the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, NASA;…

Lois Freedman, CPA

Lois Freedman, CPA began her career in late 1970s as an industry accountant. During the 1980s, she worked on Wall Street in a variety of roles, and has been in public accounting since 1990. Her practice is a family-owned full-service accounting…

Press Release September 8, 2023

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IRENE ZOLA, NYC AGING IN PLACE LEADER, FOUNDER OF LiLY, DIES AT 78 With great sadness, the LiLY organization (Lifeforce in Later Years) announces news of the sudden and unexpected passing of LiLY’s founder and executive director, Irene…

LeClanche Durand

Irene and I used to bump into each other on Broadway several times a week in our Morningside Heights neighborhood. We'd stop and chat about current events and matters of local concern. Sometimes when I commented on a play or film, Irene would…

Ava Schonberg

I was helped by Lily right at the beginning, when I attended the first organizational meeting. I was helped by Lilly members right from the start, until my companion passed away. I don’t know how I would have managed without their help ,visits.…

Iris Shorin

Just recently my aol computer was scammed. The culprits sent an email to all my contacts explaining I was very ill, needed money and were asked to send gift cards to the sender of the email. I am a member of LiLY and Irene, just one of my contacts.…

Leila Stroud

Irene Zola is remembered as the visionary founder of LiLY (Lifeforce in Later Years), which created a community for seniors and neighbors. LiLY volunteers assisted and socialized with seniors in a variety of activities, which has helped to allow…

Irene Zola, Founder

Karen Anderson

When I think of Irene, so many superlatives come to mind – beautiful, brilliant, visionary, magnanimous…. I am aching for myself and our community and for John. Irene wanted a better world for seniors, worked to make it happen, and in…

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LIVING ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN

Most likely, within a couple of blocks of your apartment, you can go outside just as the streetlights begin to turn on, stand on a corner and look to the west, the nearer the river, the more sky. There, unless a densely cloudy evening, watch…

THE COMPOSTING STORY from the NYC Dept. of Sanitation

Curbside compost collection is a priority for our city because compostable material, i.e., food wastes, comprises a third of the million pounds of trash that New Yorkers generate each day, Without composting, they release poisonous gasses into…

SAYING GOODBYE TO RAINY DAY BLUES

"Rainy days and Mondays always get me down" is a line from a 1971 song that seems to touch on something universal -- the sad feelings that bad weather can bring, and scientific studies are backing this up. But, for those who can handle an umbrella,…

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