The Riverside Language Program offers free classes in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to immigrants and refugees from all over the world who are currently living in New York City.

Our intensive ESL classes (5 hours a day) encourage adults to make rapid progress in English, allowing them to participate more fully in American life in the shortest possible time.

The New York Public Library works with Riverside to offer free part-time English classes at Public Libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. The Library classes meet two evening a week or on Saturdays.

We also serve as a site for professional development and training.

The Riverside Language Program has been commended by New York State as a model program for ESOL and profiled in The New York Times.