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| Y Centers |
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| The 92nd Street Y has eight programming centers. |
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| Bronfman Center for Jewish Life |
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| The Bronfman Center, generously endowed by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, offers a distinguished array of lectures, interviews, classes, workshops and holiday celebrations that explore Jewish ideas and themes. Known as a Jewish home-away-from-home to thousands of adults and children, the Center offers a wide range of programs to those beginning an exploration of Judaism, those continuing their studies and those seeking a better understanding of Jewish values, texts, history and rituals. |
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| Lillian & Sol Goldman Family Center for Youth & Family |
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| The Goldman Center provides programs that promote the healthy development and growth of children of all ages. From classes for parents-to-be to extensive activities for teens, the Center, endowed by the Goldman Family, provides a supportive, noncompetitive environment that encourages children and families to reach their maximum potential. Center programs include the award-winning Parenting Center, the Nursery School, the Noar Afterschool Center, 13 summer camps and activities for children with developmental disabilities. |
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| Makor/Steinhardt Center |
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| Our 35 West 67th Street facility, donated to the Y in 2001 by philanthropist Michael H. Steinhardt, was sold in September 2007 to the City University of New York. Our new expansive, ground-floor location in the heart of Tribeca, at 200 Hudson Street, will open in fall 2008. Learn more about this new facility. |
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| May Center for Health, Fitness & Sport |
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| The May Center provides adults and children with numerous opportunities for exercise, recreation, health education and participation in competitive sports. Its comprehensive fitness facilities include two air-conditioned gyms, a 25-yard swimming pool, state-of-the-art aerobic and strength conditioning studios, racquetball courts, an indoor jogging track and more than 100 exercise classes weekly. The Center, endowed by Leni and Peter May, also offers programs for special populations through its Coronary Detection & Intervention Center (CDIC); its nutrition, osteoporosis and women's health programs; individual instruction and lectures by leading medical authorities. |
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| Milstein/Rosenthal Center for Media & Technology |
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| Endowed in 1999 by two visionary trustees, board chairman Philip Milstein and longtime board member John Rosenthal, the Milstein/Rosenthal Center is spearheading the Y's foray into the technology age. Working with the other centers, the new division is developing and implementing technology-based programs an e-commerce enabled website, long-distance learning, Internet simulcasts, video conferencing and other new media tools that will enable the Y to extend its reach beyond its four walls to communities and constituencies around the world. |
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| School of the Arts |
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| The School of the Arts continues the Y's long history of offering outstanding instruction in music, dance and the visual arts. Under its auspices are the School of Music, founded in 1917, the Art Center, founded in 1930, and the Harkness Dance Center, which offered the modern dance movement its first home in America in 1936 and continues to present a dance performance season. Classes are available for all age groups, from preschool children to senior adults, and at all levels of training, from vocational beginners to established professional performers, teachers and choreographers. The School's Educational Outreach Program brings music, dance and art into the lives of 8,000 economically disadvantaged students in the East and Central Harlem neighborhoods directly north of the Y. |
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| Charles Simon Center for Adult Life & Learning |
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| The Simon Center offers a unique blend of social, educational and cultural programs for adults at every stage of their lives, from singles to seniors. Internationally known as the presenter of the country's most prestigious lecture series, the Center, endowed by a bequest from Charles Simon, brings the world's finest minds and most intriguing cultural figures to the Y's stage. Additionally, the Center offers diverse personal growth, career development and language classes. The acclaimed de Hirsch Residence and the Y's Buttenwieser Library also fall under the auspices of the Center. |
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| Tisch Center for the Arts |
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| The Tisch Center, endowed through the generous support of the Tisch family, produces and presents world-class concerts of classical, world, folk and cabaret music, lyric theater and jazz. The Center's Unterberg Poetry Center, established in 1939, produces a renowned literary reading series that presents the most distinguished writers of our time, offers extensive educational programs for writers of all levels, sponsors an adult literacy project for recent immigrants, and hosts a literary program that brings world-famous authors to meet high school students. |
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