The 92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Its full name is the 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association (YM-YWHA). The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A Jewish Community Center is a general recreational, social and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities. ... A Jewish Community Center is a general recreational, social and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities. ...

Founded in 1874 by German-Jewish professionals and businessmen, the 92nd Street Y has grown into an organization guided by Jewish principles but serving people of all races and faiths. 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This article describes some ethnic, historic, and cultural aspects of the Jewish identity; for a consideration of the Jewish religion, refer to the article Judaism. ... This article is about race as an intraspecies classification. ... This article discusses faith in a religious context. ...

The Y serves over 300,000 people annually and offers over 200 programs a day. Its 33 program areas include community outreach; lectures and panel discussions; Jewish education and culture; concerts featuring classical, jazz and popular music; humanities classes; dance performances; literary readings; film screenings; parenting programs; camps; a nursery school; fitness classes, singles programs; seniors programs; a library; a day spa; and a residence program that rents rooms in the Y's main building at 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ... picture of Isadora Duncan - Source: Library of Congress Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... It has been suggested that Child discipline be merged into this article or section. ... Summer camp, principally (though not exclusively) a North American phenomenon, is a common destination for children and teenagers during the summer months. ... A modern-style library in Chambéry In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals, . It can refer to an individuals private collection, but more often it is a large collection that is funded and maintained by a city or institution. ... Lexington Avenue is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. ...

Kaufmann Concert Hall, a 917-seat theater, is the home for concerts, performances, readings and lectures.

The 92nd Street Y is comprised of eight programming centers: Bronfman Center for Jewish Life; Lillian & Sol Goldman Family Center for Youth & Family; Makor/Steinhardt Center; May Center for Health; Fitness & Sport; Milstein/Rosenthal Center for Media & Technology; School of the Arts; Charles Simon Center for Adult Life & Learning; and Tisch Center for the Arts.

Individuals of note who have performed, lectured or taught at the 92nd Street Y include Dylan Thomas, Yo-Yo Ma, Emma Lazarus, William Carlos Williams, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Elie Wiesel, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Edward Albee, Jimmy Carter, Francis Ford Coppola, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Dustin Hoffman, Howard Zinn, Frank Gehry and T.S. Eliot. Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ... Yo-Yo Ma (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: MÇŽ YÇ’uyÇ’u) (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born Chinese American virtuoso cellist, considered one of the finest in the world. ... Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. ... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. ... Martha Graham and Bertram Ross in Visionary Recital, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. ... Alvin Ailey, Jr. ... Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie) (born September 30[1], 1928) is a world-renowned Romanian-Hungarian Jewish novelist, philosopher, humanitarian, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov ( , Mihail Sergeevič Gorbačëv, IPA: , commonly written as Mikhail Gorbachev; born March 2, 1931) was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director who, along with Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe, is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22, 1899 [O.S. April 10], Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, social critic and political scientist. ... Frank Owen Gehry, (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Ontario on February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ...

In 2002, it came to light that Jack Grubman, a Citigroup analyst specializing in the telecommunications sector, upgraded his previously low rating of AT&T as part of a deal with his boss, Sandy Weill, to get the former's two children admitted to the preschool at the Y. Weill had Citigroup donate US$1 million to the school; the children were later admitted. ^[1] Citigroup Inc. ... A fairly broad term for a person or tool with a primary function of information analysis, generally with a more limited, practical and short term set of goals than a researcher. ... This article describes the present AT&T Inc. ... Sandy Weill in the 1970s Sandy Weill (March 16 1933 -) is a financier, philanthropist, and chairman of Citigroup. ...

References

1. ↑  Roger Lowenstein, Origins of the Crash., Penguin Press, 2004. p. 212

Roger Lowenstein, a financial journalist, reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its Heard on the Street column, 1989 to 1991. ...

External links

• 92nd Street Y website
• 92Y Blog