villagecare at 46 & ten
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T h e P e o p l e
T h e C i t yT h e C u l t u r e
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VillageCare at 46 & Ten
The People. The City. The Culture
illageCare at 46 & Ten is dierent rom other senior residences. What separates urom the rest are the people that live here, the city were in and the culture that ex
ists here.
New York City speaks or itsel. VillageCare at 46 & Ten is conveniently located in midtown Manhat
tan. Were close to attractions ranging rom Times Square to Broadway to Lincoln Center to Res
taurant Row and more. With the city that never sleeps right outside your door, you will never n
yoursel at a loss or something to do.
46 & Ten is a vibrant, congenial, established community oering saety and security in an environmen
that understands your need or fexibility and personal choice. There is never a dull moment at 46t
& Ten. Activities are planned by our activities director and consist o daily exercise classes, cultura
excursions and educational lectures, just to name a ew. You may also choose to join the resident
council.
At 46 & Ten, you will nd a resident population whose lie work and experiences create a broad an
interesting mosaic.
There are several comortable lounge areas in which to relax and enagage in stimulating conversa
tion with a neighbor.
You will enjoy 24-hour security and concierge sta, restaurant-style meals served by a riendly an
attentive wait sta and a calendar o activities that has something or everyone. You can also tak
advantage o our spacious roo terrace.
Join our community and add your story to those o our artists, actors, business proessionals and edu
cators, to name a ew, who ound a home at VillageCare at 46 & Ten.
Meet some o them now...
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Zena is a world-renowned ballet intructor. She studied dance in New YorCity with Russian ballet masters and began her proessional career as amember o an acrobatic dance trio. During World War II, she perorme
in shows with the USO on Broadway, she was in the original cast o the 1944 revue Seve
Lively Artsand the musicals Song of Norwayand Paint Your Wagon.
In the 1960s, Zena began to teach dance and noticed that the ballet instruction availabl
was not o the caliber that she had received rom the Russian masters. Something neede
to change. She invented the Zena Rommett Floor-BarreTechniqueor young dancers tha
not only taught proper orm, but also increased saety rom injuries. In 1965, she was in
vited to teach at Robert Joreys American Ballet Center, and by 1968 she had opened he
own studio.
Today, some o the most enthusiastic practitioners and instructors use her technique. Zen
remains active in the industry, and continues to teach her method to be passed on amon
generations to ollow.
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B a l l e t I c o n
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B r o a d w a y W i g M a k e r
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Bob is a Broadway wig maker. From his rst Broadway work calle
Good Soupwith Mildred Natwick, to many hits such as A Funny Thin
Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Rothschilds, King Richard III, Chicagoand 42n
Street, Bob has become a legend in the theater district.
Saturday Night Live, one o the most popular and long-running television shows, has bee
a client o his since its rst episode on October 11, 1975. He has created and designed th
wigs worn by each cast member in each skit, spanning a total o more than 600 episodes
The likes o Gilda Radner, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase and John Belushi rom the origina
cast to Tina Feys Sarah Palin to the cast o the most current season have been bewigged b
Bob and his crew.
Having coied and brushed and set wigs on heads o hundreds o amous people, meetin
some o them on a personal level seems unavoidable. Three o his most memorable ce
lebrities were Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, whom he considered hi
riends.
Today, Bob continues to create wigs in his shop in midtown Manhattan with his sta. SN
continues to be a loyal client, as well as some o the newer shows on Broadway.
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There might be one word that could possibly sum up Barbaras career, an
that would be Adventurer. While she earned money as a school teache
her vast experiences go well beyond the classroom.
Barbara learned to read at the age o three, and spoke Hungarian and French fuently by th
time she entered the rst grade.
She always had a desire to help the poor and needy. In her early years, Barbara made sever
al pilgrimages to Hungary with suitcases ull o clothes and distributed them in the poores
colonies. She clearly remembers one incident that nearly got her into international troubl
while handing out clothes rom her hotel room. Two Soviet troops got wind o an America
woman handing out clothes to poor people and had come to interrogate her about her inten
tions and arrest her. Barbara greeted them by speaking Hungarian and assured them tha
there was nothing o the sort going on. Her fuency in Hungarian saved her that day.
Ater marrying her husband, they went to Southern Rhodesia, a British colony in Sout
Arica today known as Zimbabwe. Their mission was to build colonies rom the ground up
providing ood, shelter, education and health care. Barbara took on the schooling single
handedly. It was this experience that intrigued her to become a ull-time teacher upo
returning to the states.
In her home, Barbara displays many gits and trinkets that she has collected rom her man
adventures around the world. Each item has an intriguing story attached to it and Barbar
is not shy about telling it.
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A d v e n t u r e
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510 West 46th Street
New York, New York 10036
212.977.4600
www.46and10village.org
VillageCare at 46 & Ten