Uptown YMCA photographs 1933-1986 (bulk 1940s-1970s)
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Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York
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The YMCA was established in New York 1852 to provide young men new to the city a Christian alternative to the attractions of city life. The New York YMCA, played an important role in the development of local and national social welfare organizations, including the Sanitary Commission, founded in New York in 1861; the U. S. Christian Commission, established in the same year by northern YMCAs to help troops and prisoners of war; the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded in 1876; an...
YMCA of Greater New York. Uptown Branch
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The Uptown Branch of the YMCA of Greater New York was formed in 1933 as a replacement for the old Harlem Branch on 125th Street, which had closed in 1929. The initial mission of the branch was to provide a positive alternative to the so-called "cellar gangs" in the area. For many years it was located on various blocks around West 104th Street, although it occupied other rented facilities on the west side of upper Manhattan, including an extension center at the Riverside Church at 49...
Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Harlem Branch (1868-1933)
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The Harlem Branch (125th Street) was organized in 1868 in its first rented headquarters at 122nd Street and Third Avenue in Harlem. The initial programs were the standard early YMCAs with a reading room and religious services for young men in the neighborhood. In 1880 it opened its own building on 125th Street. In operated in this building until 1929. A limited program was continued in another location until 1933. The Uptown Branch was an outgrowth of this former work in upper Manhattan. ...
