NEW YORK, NY December 04, 2008 —The debate rages on at City Hall as to whether the city should go forward with its planned modernization of the more than 300 senior centers around the city.

Many elderly New Yorkers and their advocates worry that the plan to update centers, or potentially lose funding could lead to scores of closures.

At a heated public hearing, Deputy Commissioner for the Department for the Aging, Caryn Resnick, was grilled by Council Speaker Christine Quinn about possibly 100 centers being shuttered:

RESNICK: We are very unclear where that number came from.

QUINN: So how many do you think could be potentially closed?

RESNICK: We don't have an answer to that question. We do not anticipate that there will be closures.

REPORTER: The Council chambers was filled with a standing room only crowd of the over 60 set who often booed during the contentious hearing.