The 92Y May Center for Health, Fitness & Sport provides comprehensive, professionally developed and supervised health-related, lifetime fitness activities in a supportive environment. The May Center provides adults, children and special populations with opportunities for education, health and fitness assessment programs, recreation, competitive sports and aquatic activities.
Parkhurst’s visionary Dalton Plan remains the keystone of the school’s progressive educational philosophy and is now the model for over 200 Dalton schools in other parts of the world. Dalton is recognized for its rigorous, innovative educational curriculum and offers its 1,300 students a breadth of stimulating and challenging programs taught by our dedicated faculty. Our high academic standards are complemented by an exemplary performing and fine arts curriculum – taught by faculty who are professionals in their fields – and a full range of athletic teams and extra-curricular activities. The school’s First Program (K-3) occupies three adjoining townhouses on East 91st Street in New York City. Middle and High School students attend classes nearby in our schoolhouse on East 89th Street. Indoor physical education for Middle and High School students is provided in our state-of-the-art facility on East 87th Street. The Dalton School is committed to providing an excellent education that meets each student’s interests, abilities, and needs and promotes an appreciation for diversity in our community as an integral part of school life. Dalton challenges each student to develop intellectual independence, creativity and curiosity and a sense of responsibility toward others both within the School and in the community at large. Dalton continues to reaffirm the ethical and moral development of its students, and lively discussions focusing on values evolve naturally from our curriculum. Guided by the Dalton Plan, the School well prepares students to “go forth unafraid” not only as academically strong graduates, but also as informed, intuitive, and responsible social citizens.
MASS SCHEDULE FOR SUMMER Our Summer Schedule of Masses will begin on June 9th On Weekdays there will be no 7:00am Mass Sunday Masses will include A Vigil Mass on Saturday afternoon at 5:45pm; and Sunday at 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:30pm and 5:45pm WEEKDAY 7:00, 8:00am & 12:15 pm (no 7:00 am Mass on Saturdays)
The Bella Abzug Leadership Institute (BALI) mentors and trains young women in high school and college to be proactive, principle-driven leaders of tomorrow in fields that transform society and our political system for the betterment of women. Using the dynamic political and strategic leadership skills of the legendary lawyer, politician and activist Bella Abzug, BALI helps young women build the confidence and techniques necessary to be effective and visionary leaders in a wide variety of fields, and active participants in civic, corporate, political and community life.
Huntington Learning Center is the nation’s longest-running supplemental education services provider. Today they continue to be an industry leader providing instruction in reading, writing, spelling, phonics, mathematics and study skills as well as subject tutoring and SAT and ACT preparation to tens of thousands of students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Mythic Bridge is a non-profit organization committed to providing filmmaking education to the underserved. We strive to enhance ideas, people, and communities by cultivating the careers of artists while engaging and connecting communities. Dedicated to the discovery and advancement of independent voices and viewers, Mythic Bridge stands as a champion of metamorphosis. Making the experience of visual-storytelling a commonplace in everyday life, Mythic Bridge becomes a catalyst for growth by igniting people’s passion. Providing a support system and creative voice for those who might otherwise have none, Mythic Bridge provides opportunities for people of all ages to discover, explore, and learn through the power of film. Through technical hands-on training and job-placement-assistance, our workshops utilize new media skill building as an access point to reinterpret and challenge notions of self-expression, personal and cultural identity, and interactive voice. Our programs culminate in the public screening of works produced within Mythic Bridge. This fundamentally responsive social model of arts production allows participants to develop an understanding of the cultural dimensions of artistic communication, and by extension, a profound realization of how the arts can contribute to a rich and creative society. Mythic Bridge social arts center opens new doors for ideas, grants people their voice, and as a powerful instrument for the arts; develops communities. Mythic Bridge will make a difference by providing the underserved with a creative home and the necessary tools to realize their dreams.
FFEU is the international address for Muslim Jewish relations and the national address for Black Jewish relations.
FFEU is the international address for Muslim Jewish relations and the national address for Black Jewish relations.
The Otto H. Kahn House was the New York City residence of Otto H. Kahn, a German financier and philanthropist. The mansion is located at 1 East 91st Street, in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side.
Convent of the Sacred Heart is an independent Roman Catholic all-girl school in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Teaching from pre-kindergarten all the way through to twelfth grade, it is located on Manhattan's Upper East Side at East 91st Street and Fifth Avenue.The school is housed in the former Otto H. Kahn House and James A. Burden House, both of which are New York City-Designated Landmarks.HistoryFounded in 1881 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic congregation established in France in 1800, the school is New York City’s oldest private school for girls. The school was originally housed in a Manhattan brownstone on Madison Avenue at East 54th Street.By the 1930s, the school had outgrown its Madison Avenue space and moved into the Kahn mansion. In 1940, the Society acquired the Burden mansion next door.Membership and accreditationIn addition to being a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart and a part of the global Network of Sacred Heart Schools, a worldwide network of over 150 schools committed to the mission of a Sacred Heart education, the school is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is located at 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Andrew Carnegie built his mansion in 1903 and lived there until his death in 1919; his wife, Louise, lived there until her death in 1946. The building is now the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. The surrounding neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side has come to be called Carnegie Hill. The mansion was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966.HistoryThe land was purchased in 1898 in secrecy by Carnegie, further north than most mansions, in part to ensure there was enough space for a garden. He asked his architects Babb, Cook & Willard for the "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York". However, it was also the first American residence to have a steel frame and among the first to have a private Otis Elevator and central heating. His wife, Louise, lived in the house until she died in 1946.The Carnegie Corporation gave the house and property to the Smithsonian in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum opened there in 1976. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates handled the renovation into a museum in 1977. The interior was redesigned by the architectural firm, Polshek and Partners, headed by James Polshek, in 2001.
The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion located on 1109 Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in the Upper East Side in New York City. Today the Jewish Museum of New York is housed there.HistoryThe six-story mansion, built in 1908 to designs by the architect C. P. H. Gilbert, was constructed for the philanthropist Felix M. Warburg (d.1937). The style is a revival of early French Renaissance architecture from the period Francois I.Warburg purchased from Perry Belmont a lot that measured 100 feet along Fifth Avenue, but required Gilbert to cover only half of it with his house, permitting a side lawn fifty feet across on the avenue. When it was completed, Warburg's father-in-law Jacob Schiff feared that it was ostentatious and would incite envy and anti-semitism. The Warburgs specified that they were pleased with Harry Sinclair's house and would like something similar, with details likewise drawn from the Late Gothic Hôtel de Cluny, Paris.His widow Frieda Schiff Warburg had tried to donate the house to a cultural institute but failed and finally sold the mansion in 1941 to developer Henry Kaufman and the architect Emery Roth, who intended to redevelop the site into an eighteen-story apartment building. After the developers' plans fell through, the mansion reverted to Mrs. Warburg.
The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest collection of art and Jewish culture excluding Israeli museums, more than 30,000 objects. While its collection was established in 1904 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the museum did not open to the public until 1947 when Felix Warburg's widow sold the property to the Seminary. It focuses both on artifacts of Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. Its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, is supplemented by multiple temporary exhibitions each year.HistoryThe Warburg FamilyFelix M. Warburg and his brother Paul Warburg were international bankers in the early 20th Century who cultivated their fortunes at the New York banking firm Kuhn, Loeb, & Co. Felix and Paul moved to the United States in 1894 and Felix soon after married Freida Schiff, daughter of Jacob Schiff, a partner at the firm. Active in the Jewish community and philanthropy for most of his life, Felix organized the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies by combining 75 separate charities and organizations. He also served as the director of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America along with his father-in-law Jacob H. Schiff. By that time, the Warburg family had been living in the house since 1908 when construction that began two years prior was completed.
The Spence School is an American all-girls independent school in New York City, founded in 1892 by Clara B. Spence.OverviewSpence has about 688 students, with grades K-4 representing the Lower School, 5-8 representing the Middle School, and 9-12 representing the Upper School. Lower school average class sizes are 16-18 and middle and upper school average class sizes are 13-14. The student: teacher ratio is 7:1 and students of color in all grades make up approximately 33 percent of the student body. The school is popular with elite families in New York City. For the 2012-13 academic year, tuition is $40,000 for all grades K-12. Its sister schools are the all-girls Brearley School, the all-girls Chapin School and the all-boys Collegiate School, all in New York City. Forbes magazine ranked Spence ninth on its "America's Best Prep Schools" list in 2010.HistoryThe Spence School was founded in 1892 by Clara B. Spence, who was its head for 31 years. The school's motto is "non scholae sed vitae discimus" (Latin for "Not for school, but for life we learn"). The first building was located on New York City's West 48th Street.The school once had a boarding option, but all current girls are day students.Clara B. Spence described her school as: "A place not of mechanical instruction, but a school of character where the common requisites for all have been human feeling, a sense of humor and the spirit of intellectual and moral adventure."