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As of 2021, there are twenty two branches throughout the five boroughs, including the McBurney Y that was the inspiration for the Village People's song and the West Side YMCA. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] YMCA of Greater New York is affiliated with YMCA in America and also operated Camp Talcott , a more than century-old sleepaway camp that hosted more ...
Camp Gorham is a YMCA summer camp located just north of Eagle Bay, New York in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The camp is made up of over 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2 ) with a 400-acre (1.6 km 2 ) private lake.
YMCA Central Building (Buffalo, New York), Buffalo, New York, listed on the NRHP in Erie County, New York. [2] Sloane House YMCA, West 34th Street, New York City, which was the largest residential YMCA in the U.S.A. Old Poughkeepsie YMCA, Poughkeepsie, New York, listed on the NRHP as "Young Men's Christian Association". [2] United States Post ...
Camp Onyahsa is a YMCA summer camp located on Lake Chautauqua in Dewittville, New York, and one of the oldest summer camps in the U.S. The word Onyahsa is purported to be Haudonosaunee in origin, and relates to the shape of the Lake. The Camp was given this name by director, Roy Wagner, in 1924.
YMCA Camp Bernie A YMCA camp in Huguenot, New York. YMCA camping began in 1885 when Camp Baldhead (later known as Camp Dudley) was established by G.A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley on Orange Lake in New Jersey as the first residential camp in North America. [48] The camp later moved to Lake Champlain near Westport, New York. [13]
In 1874, a group of German-Jewish professionals established the New York Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA). The founders were predominantly members of the Temple Shaaray Tefila, or synagogue, and New York's YMHA and others across the country grew out of existing Jewish congregations. The YMHA itself was a secular organization intended to ...
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program. [3] [6] [7] [8]
No longer officially operated by the YMCA, Camp Dudley is an independent camp managed by the Board of Managers. It draws from the YMCA's own tenets of mind, body, and spirit. Though non-denominational, the camp espouses "Christian values" in its teachings and programs, not least of which is its motto, "The Other Fellow First".