The 92nd Street Y, the world-renowned Jewish cultural, educational and community center, has signed a lease with Trinity Real Estate for 15,800 square feet at 200 Hudson Street in TriBeCa. The space will be the new home of the Y's Makor® and Daytime@™ programs, currently located on the Upper West Side. The new venue, for which the 92nd Street Y will seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, will open in the fall of 2007 and is being designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects LLP.
The 92nd Street Y is relocating the Makor and Daytime@ programs to the expansive, 15-foot-high ground floor of 200 Hudson Street from 35 West 67th Street. The uptown facility, which was donated to the Y in 2001 by philanthropist Michael H. Steinhardt, was sold in September to The City University of New York.
Sol Adler, Executive Director, 92nd Street Y, said: "We are thrilled to be relocating Makor and Daytime@ to such a prominent address in one of the city's most vibrant and rapidly-developing neighborhoods. The 200 Hudson Street location will enable us to expand on the success we've had uptown and to serve new audiences in and around TriBeCa. I want to thank Fredric Mack, our board president, and his fellow board members Philip Milstein and Stuart Ellman, for their leadership on this project."
Almost 60,000 people participate in Makor and Daytime@ programs each year – 52,000 in Makor events (a number that has nearly doubled since Makor merged with the 92nd Street Y in 2001) and 6,500 in Daytime@ activities.
The music, film and other programs for which Makor and Daytime@ are well known will continue at the new site. The facility will contain a music-performance space with a bar, a café/performance space separate from the music space, a screening room with two aisles rather than the present single aisle as well as a front-of-screen area large enough for readings and other non-film audience programs, an expandable lecture space, several classrooms, and offices.
Kostow Greenwood Architects, KGA, the firm selected for the project, has designed, renovated and restored a wide range of cultural and performing arts spaces including projects such as The Brooklyn Tabernacle, The Joyce Theatre and BethWorks, among others.
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