at 46 & TEN

The People
The City
The Culture
 VillageCare at 46 & Ten
The People. The City. The Culture.

V illageCare at 46 & Ten is different from other senior residences. What separates us
from the rest are the people that live here, the city we’re in and the culture that ex-
ists here.

New York City speaks for itself. VillageCare at 46 & Ten is conveniently located in midtown Manhat-
tan. We’re close to attractions ranging from 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 find
yourself at a loss for something to do.

46 & Ten is a vibrant, congenial, established community offering safety and security in an environment
that understands your need for flexibility and personal choice. There is never a dull moment at 46th
& Ten. Activities are planned by our activities director and consist of daily exercise classes, cultural
excursions and educational lectures, just to name a few. You may also choose to join the residents’
council.

At 46 & Ten, you will find a resident population whose life work and experiences create a broad and
interesting mosaic.

There are several comfortable lounge areas in which to relax and enagage in stimulating conversa-
tion with a neighbor.

You will enjoy 24-hour security and concierge staff, restaurant-style meals served by a friendly and
attentive wait staff and a calendar of activities that has something for everyone. You can also take
advantage of our spacious roof terrace.

Join our community and add your story to those of our artists, actors, business professionals and edu-
cators, to name a few, who found a home at VillageCare at 46 & Ten.

Meet some of them now...

Z ena is a world-renowned ballet intructor. She studied dance in New York
City with Russian ballet masters and began her professional career as a
member of an acrobatic dance trio. During World War II, she performed
in shows with the USO on Broadway, she was in the original cast of the 1944 revue Seven
Lively Arts and the musicals Song of Norway and Paint Your Wagon.

In the 1960s, Zena began to teach dance and noticed that the ballet instruction available
was not of the caliber that she had received from the Russian masters. Something needed
to change. She invented the Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® Technique for young dancers that
not only taught proper form, but also increased safety from injuries. In 1965, she was in-
vited to teach at Robert Joffrey’s American Ballet Center, and by 1968 she had opened her
own studio.

Today, some of the most enthusiastic practitioners and instructors use her technique. Zena
remains active in the industry, and continues to teach her method to be passed on among
generations to follow.
Ballet Icon
Broadway Wig Maker
B ob is a Broadway wig maker. From his first Broadway work called
Good Soup with Mildred Natwick, to many hits such as A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Rothschilds, King Richard III, Chicago and 42nd
Street, Bob has become a legend in the theater district.

Saturday Night Live, one of the most popular and long-running television shows, has been
a client of his since its first episode on October 11, 1975. He has created and designed the
wigs worn by each cast member in each skit, spanning a total of more than 600 episodes.
The likes of Gilda Radner, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase and John Belushi from the original
cast to Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin to the cast of the most current season have been bewigged by
Bob and his crew.

Having coiffed and brushed and set wigs on heads of hundreds of famous people, meeting
some of them on a personal level seems unavoidable. Three of his most memorable ce-
lebrities were Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, whom he considered his
friends.

Today, Bob continues to create wigs in his shop in midtown Manhattan with his staff. SNL
continues to be a loyal client, as well as some of the newer shows on Broadway.
T here might be one word that could possibly sum up Barbara’s career, and
that would be “Adventurer.” While she earned money as a school teacher,
her vast experiences go well beyond the classroom.

Barbara learned to read at the age of three, and spoke Hungarian and French fluently by the
time she entered the first 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 full of clothes and distributed them in the poorest
colonies. She clearly remembers one incident that nearly got her into international trouble
while handing out clothes from her hotel room. Two Soviet troops got wind of an American
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 that
there was nothing of the sort going on. Her fluency in Hungarian saved her that day.

After marrying her husband, they went to Southern Rhodesia, a British colony in South
Africa today known as Zimbabwe. Their mission was to build colonies from the ground up,
providing food, shelter, education and health care. Barbara took on the schooling single-
handedly. It was this experience that intrigued her to become a full-time teacher upon
returning to the states.

In her home, Barbara displays many gifts and trinkets that she has collected from her many
adventures around the world. Each item has an intriguing story attached to it and Barbara
is not shy about telling it.
Adventurer
VillageCare at 46 & Ten
510 West 46th Street
New York, New York 10036
212.977.4600
www.46and10village.org