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Senior Citizen Services Division

(516) 797-7916

Seniors in the Town of Oyster Bay, age 60 and older, enjoy a wide variety of social and recreational programs provided by the Town and through independently sponsored senior citizen clubs.

SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES

Activities within the clubs include bridge, line dancing, tai chi, yoga, exercise, ballroom dancing and painting.  The Town provides specialists who hold classes at the Marjorie R. Post Community Center, William P. Bennett Hicksville Community Center, Syosset-Woodbury Community Center, the Bethpage Skating Center Community Room and the Town of Oyster Bay Athletic Center.

Senior Citizen Services coordinates monthly day trips which include luncheons, holiday celebrations, theater trips, baseball games and seasonal outings.

Our Senior Summer Program runs during July and August each year and provides our Town Seniors the opportunity to enjoy a myriad of free activities at our various community parks and centers.  The summer program features crafts, exercise, tai chi, yoga, line dancing card playing, board games, aquatic classes special entertainment and social dancing to live music.  The programs run simultaneously and take place at the Glen Head Community Center, Marjorie R. Post Community Center in Massapequa, Plainview-Old Bethpage Community Park, Syosset-Woodbury Community Park and the Bethpage Community Park.

Registration for the Senior Recreation Program at the Glen Head Community Center is required.  Please call the office at (516) 797-7916 for further information.

In addition, Senior services provides information to seniors in finding county or state programs to meet their specific needs.  Please call (516) 797-7916.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

• Town wide day trips to such events as Broadway shows, luncheons, museums, botanical gardens, and more.
• The six week Summer Program.