Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects for Youth

Period of Performance

10/1/1979 - 9/30/1980

Funding Totals

$4,500.00 (approved)
$4,500.00 (awarded)


A Community Center and Its Community: The 92nd Street YM- YWHA Examines 80 Years of Change

FAIN: GZ-*0987-79

92nd Street YM-YWHA (New York, NY 10128-1612)
Helaine Geismar (Project Director: February 1979 to October 1990)

To enable teenagers to trace the cultural and social changes of the Upper East Side neighborhood, in and around the Y, over the last 80 years.

To trace the cultural and social changes of the Upper East Side neighborhood, in and around the Y, over the last 80 years, and in so doing to provide many teenagers with a better understanding of local history and with valuable research and writing skills.