Founded in 1874, the 92nd Street Y is one of the country's oldest Jewish community and cultural centers.
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The 92nd Street Y offers over 200 different programs every day.
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The 92nd Street Y provides dance and music education to over 8,000 economically disadvantaged public school children every year through in-school programs and by showing classroom teachers how to weave the arts into their curricula.
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The 92nd Street Y's Parenting Center is a national model for early-childhood education.
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In 1953, Dylan Thomas introduced his play for voices, "Under Milk Wood," at the 92nd Street Y.
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma made his New York recital debut at the 92nd Street Y in 1974.
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Poet William Carlos Williams opened the first season of the Y's Unterberg Poetry Center in 1939.
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Emma Lazarus taught immigrants at the 92nd Street Y around the same time she composed the famous poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty, 'The New Colossus' ( "Send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. . .").
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The pioneers of modern dance — Martha Graham, Louis Horst, Hanya Holm, Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey — first presented their works at the 92nd Street Y in the first-of-its-kind "Symposium on Modern Dance" in 1935. Agnes de Mille later said that without the 92nd Street Y, "the entire revolution in dance might not have succeeded."
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Alvin Ailey premiered his signature work "Revelations" at the 92nd Street Y in 1960.
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The 92nd Street Y's patrons range in age from newborn to 100+.
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Elie Wiesel has presented his series "The Fascination with Jewish Tales" at the 92nd Street Y for over 30 years.
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The 92nd Street Y has over a dozen summer camps serving 1,500 children and teens, including three camps for special needs youngsters.
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The names of 18 of our culture's greatest figures grace the walls of the 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall: Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Einstein, Virgil, Spinoza, Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare, Emerson, Homer, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Maimonides, David, Moses, and Isaiah.
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The 92nd Street Y has hosted many world leaders, including Abba Eban, Yitzchak Rabin, and Shimon Peres of Israel; Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath of the United Kingdom; Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union; Kofi Annan and Boutros Boutros-Ghali of the United Nations; and Prince Albert of Monaco.
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You can attend 92nd Street Y events for free while simultaneously exercising at the Y's fitness center. "Y TV" lets you enjoy the concerts, lectures, readings and other events taking place in the Y's concert hall while doing your aerobic workout — all, for free. Just turn to Channel Y on the monitor attached to your Stairmaster, treadmill or exercise bike.
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The 92nd Street Y has the only pool in New York disinfected primarily with ozone. Unlike chlorine, ozone prevents bathing suits from fading, skin from drying, eyes from stinging and pool water from having a pungent smell.
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