Hartley House

Miss Sarit and I came here for a pottery class last Thursday and left very satisfied! I am not a creative person, which the teacher picked up on and lent me a helping hand, while encouraging to follow my own vision on what it should be.
I cannot stress enough on how impressed I was with the teacher’s helpfulness, kindness and encouragement.
I wound up making some weird snake-​y flower pot, and while it may not actually hold flowers (or water for that matter) but I am sure it will look nice with some fake orchids!
It is held in an old building, with much personality. You pay 10 $ per project, which includes if you need to come back and make a second visit to finish your project (I need to paint mine…)
It is a fun place to take a date to, or just go by yourself and relax, let your creative side flourish and know there is guidance and instruction here if you need it. I plan on coming back this Thursday, and definitely coming back again!

Hartley House, formerly known as Hartley House Settlement, is a New York not for profit corporation, operating since 1897 as a charity serving the Hell’s Kitchen community of Manhattan, New York. From the day of its founding, the Hartley House has been operating on West 46^th Street in Manhattan between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.
This is a complex of several well-​kept Victorian Era buildings (formerly adjacent brownstones) that the founder purchased outright over a century ago, so the organization does not pay any rent. They don’t have a mortgage to worry about, which is amazing and wonderful.
On the weekends, when the families they serve are not around, there is inexpensive entertainment at Hartley House. The last time I was there, I saw the play «Waiting for Lefty.» Creatively staged in Hartley House’s gymnasium — in the Clifford Odets play the setting is a union hall — there was plenty of room for the huge cast of actors, mostly males.
Before performances, it is delightful to sit in their garden/​courtyard under stately mature trees and be sheltered from the speed and racket of day-​to-​day New York City.
In need of a private oasis and a leafy elm? Head to Hartley House. .. where you can almost imagine Charles Dickens walking in.