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Smiling people with balloons gather in front of a brick building with a sign that reads Boriken Neighborhood Health.
Celebrating the opening of a new building for the Boriken Health Center in 2014. (Photo: East Harlem Council for Human Services, Inc.)

Boriken Health Center established.

Date: 1974

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Celebrating the opening of a new building for the Boriken Health Center in 2014. (Photo: East Harlem Council for Human Services, Inc.)

The center is a Black, Indigenous, People of Color led frontline health service in El Barrio (a neighborhood in East Harlem, New York City) offering comprehensive health services to community members, regardless of their ability to pay.