Kindness

Improving Our Communities and Nourishing Our Relationships

Welcoming Students

Thank you!

A Message To Our Community

Saluting Our Community Heroes

Thank you!  Gracias!  Спасибо!  감사합니다!  謝謝!  !תודה 

Remembering VE Day

Longtime Y Member Walter Kehr Shares His Experience of Serving in the United States Army in Germany When the Nazis Surrendered

Caring For Our Community

Today is #GivingTuesdayNow — a global day of giving and unity. The Y is joining communities around the world to come together as one — to give, to help, to thank, to heal. 

GRASSROOTS EFFORT TO FEED HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

On Friday, March 27, 2020, the YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood (the Y) served what it thought were its last grab-and-go and delivered meals to neighborhood seniors, as New York City’s Department for the Aging was taking over all citywide senior meal provisions to help prevent the further spread of COVID-19. Within days, however, the Y realized some seniors didn’t receive the promised food packages; some of them couldn’t access the canned food, as they didn’t have the strength or tools to open it; and many of them would not be sustained by what was delivered.

The Y Continues to Provide Essential Services Amid City Shutdown

Amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, New York State ordered 100% of non-essential work to take place from home or close for the interim, in an effort to flatten the curve and help prevent the further spread of the disease.

The Y @ Home Officially Launches

For 102 years, the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood (the Y) has been a premier community center and human-service organization in northern Manhattan with the vast majority of its activities and services taking place in person. While in recent years the Y expanded the reach of its programs to other locations under the Y’s supervision, it continued to mostly focus on face-to-face programs.