The new Greenburgh Cafe was a huge success; click here to watch a video that was posted to the town website about their first ever repair cafe.
New Hebron-Salem Repair Cafe Featured in NYVT Media
Hebron-Salem’s first Repair Cafe, which took place in Salem, NY, was featured in NYVT Media. To read the article, go here.
Repair Cafes Featured at this year's UlsterCorps Service Summit
Holly Shader (organizer, Gardiner and New Paltz) Michelle Elise (zipper fixer), Melissa Iachetta (co-organizer, Kingston) and Suzie Fromer (coordinator, RCHV) were all present at last week’s UlsterCorps Service Summit at SUNY New Paltz which focused on environmental volunteering and activism. Melissa Iachetta spoke on a panel and another panelist was a professor who has restarted the SUNY New Paltz repair cafe on campus. To read the campus coverage on the event, click here.
RCHV, Rivertowns Repair Cafe and Greenburgh Repair Cafe on Local Cable TV
Suzie Fromer (RCHV Coordinator; Irvington Repair Cafe) and Dean Gallea (TarryHollow Repair Cafe) were featured on Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner’s Cable access show (Episode 11, April 4, 2024), “Solving Problems with Paul Feiner: Repair Cafe.” To see the segment, go here.
RCHV Featured on WCBS 880 Radio
RCHV's Coordinator Suzie Fromer was featured on WCBS 880 Radio this week talking about what gets fixed at a repair cafe (April, 2024). To listen, go here.
Warwick Repair Cafe Highlighted for Building Human Connections in the Warwick Advertiser
The Warwick Repair Cafe was the inspiration for this beautiful piece in the March 22nd issue of the Warwick Advertiser that tells the story about how the cafe connected the a knife sharpening repair coach with an interested teen on the Autism spectrum who then trained to become a coach himself.
To read the story, go here.
RCHV Coordinator and Jewelry Fixer Highlighted in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Our RCHV Coordinator and traveling jewelry fixer Suzie Fromer was highlighted for her work in this month's Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. To read the article, go here.
Rhinebeck and Red Hook Repair Cafes Featured in The Daily Catch
The Rhinebeck and Red Hook repair cafes were featured in the Feb. 26, 2024 issue of The Daily Catch. To read the article, go here:
RCHV Mentioned in article about two new cafes in the Finger Lakes Region
RCHV has been helping steward a group of new repair cafes in the Finger Lakes region of New York state and was mentioned in an article about the new cafes. The piece was in the February 16th issue of The Odessa Files; to read the piece, go here.
Schenectady Repair Cafe Covered in The Daily Gazette
The Daily Gazette featured some fantastic video footage of the 2/3/24 Schenectady Repair Cafe, which was their 16th cafe and starts their 6th year of repair cafes in the city. To see the video coverage, go here.