Vocational Service Center records 1938-1980 (bulk 1955-1970)

Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Bowery Branch.

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Organized in 1872, the Bowery Branch, also known as the East Third Street Branch, had an unbroken period of service for the unemployed and homeless for 75 years. Early on the branch experimented with providing meals for free or nearly free. The experiment was so successful that it became a permanent feature of the Bowery's services. The innovation continued with opening of dormitories. The Bowery offered the first bed service of any kind in New York's YMCA. After World War II, the branch merged ...

Tucker, Lemuel G.

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Antioch College

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Sharar, Paul H.

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YMCA of Greater New York. Vocational Service Center.

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The Vocational Service Center, or VSC, represented a continuation of the work of the Bowery Branch of the YMCA of the City of New York. Established in 1944, in part to address the needs of veterans returning home from WWII, the VSC emphasized educational counseling and vocational guidance as well as actual job placement. In 1946, the VSC moved uptown from its Bowery location to Park Avenue near Grand Central Station. It incorporated and centralized the job counseling services that w...

Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Vocational Service Center.

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Broderick, Lawrence.

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