Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 6:30 PM
Tribeca Rooftop 360
10 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY

Founded in 1973 as the first community-based social service agency targeting the Korean population, The Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (KCS) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) multi-social service organization supported by government agencies, foundations, corporations and concerned individuals. The objectives of KCS are to develop and deliver a broad range of social service programs to meet the various needs of the community. In order to achieve these objectives, KCS provides various professional community service programs in the areas of Community, Aging and Public Health.

Honoree: Gael Greene
Gael Greene, sybarite and sensualist, has been a New York City restaurant critic for 44 years–forty of them as Insatiable Critic for New York magazine where she changed the way New Yorkers think and talk about food. She has published seven books–two best selling erotic novels, “Blue Skies, No Candy” and “Doctor Love”, a taboo breaking sex guide, “Delicious Sex”, and a steamy memoir, “Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess” which documents how Americans fell in love with food in the four decades of the revolution of dining out. All four are available as eBooks. She co-founded Citymeals-on-Wheels with James Beard 31 years ago to help feed the city’s needy homebound elderly when they discovered governent funds did not cover weekend or holiday meals. Since then CMOW has delivered 44 million meals to frail, aging New Yorkers. Citymeals currently raises $19 million annually to help feed 17,000 needy shut-ins, ready to step in during times of emergency like blackouts and blizzards and trains volunteers for friendly visits. Greene’s weekly restaurant blog BITE, food news, gossip, Vintage reviews, and her newsletter ForkPlay appear now on her website, Insatiable Critic.com.

Special Guest: Hee Jun Han
Hee-Jun Han is a pop and R&B singer from Flushing, Queens and came in 8th place as a contestant on the 11th Season of American Idol. He was born in South Korea migrated to New York with his family when he was only 12 years old. Prior to auditioning for American Idol Season 11, he worked as a non-profit organizer for the Milal Wheat Mission, which is a Missionary School in Flushing, NY which is dedicated to working with children with special needs. He has stated on a number of occasions that it is through working with the children that he has overcome a great number of obstacles in his own life, and that it was the children who encouraged him to audition for American Idol.

For more: http://www.kcsny.org/events