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Senior center providers are in the dark on when the de Blasio administration will allow them to fully reopen, even as the city pushes for a major revamp of how the lifelines for older New Yorkers operate.
The Department for the Aging (DFTA), which oversees the city’s senior centers, gave operators permission to provide grab-and-go meals starting on May 3.
But just 28 of the city’s 249 centers have so far launched that free food service, with most opting to still rely on the city’s home delivery program put in place last year when the pandemic hit.