With support from Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, the corner of Ellwood Street and Nagle Avenue will be co-named Sidney Offerman Way in honor of Sidney Offerman, a former Y President and Board Member for thirty years. He helped secure the Y's current location at 54 Nagle in 1956. Through offering quality services to people of diverse ethnicities and ages, with the mission of improving the quality of their lives, Mr. Offerman and the Y have made a lasting contribution to Northern Manhattan. The Y celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2017 so the naming ceremony will serve as the first of the Y's many centennial anniversary celebrations.

 

What

Sidney Offerman Way co-naming celebration and ceremony

 

Who

Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez

State Senator Adriano Espaillat

The Offerman Family, including Sidney Offerman's son Steve and grandson Scott (both current Board Members of the YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood)

Andrew Halpern, Board President of the YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood

Martin Englisher, Executive Director of the YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood

 

When

Friday, June 17, at 12:00 p.m.

 

Where

Ellwood Street and Nagle Avenue intersection