Well it's official, the YMCA drops the MCA

[silenus]

Alas, this means that in a few years, new readers won’t get Pterry’s joke about the Y-M-R-C-I-G-B-S-A.

[Jolly_Roger]

@alphaboi867

It’s official the YMCA is now just “the Y” having dropped any refence to men, Christianity, or being an association from it’s name. I can’t say this is all that surprising. They’ve been letting women join for nearly 40 years and have long since stopped focusing on young men and on families instead. Meanwhile a few years ago our the local YMCA made a big deal of adding women-only excercise area so that ladies didn’t have to go all the way to the YWCA (which doesn’t let men or boys in at all) a few blocks away or one of the area’s for-profit Curves.

So now they’re just the Young? Figures…kids these days get everything handed to 'em.

[VinylTurnip]

@Colophon

It’s still open for dining, right?

Box lunch only.

[gaffa]

The Y is always my first choice for a place to stay when visiting New York City. Any hotel less than 3 times the cost of the Y is a fleabag. Stayed at the one in Greenpoint, Brooklyn most recently that was a short walk from the train. I can live with not having a private bathroom to save a few hundred dollars a night, especially as I shower at night.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Lucky_13

As long we’re on the subject, I wonder if my local Y had actual dorms like the ones I read about in old books? I remember reading about guys showing up in New York City with no place to stay sleeping at the Y, and sometimes activities other than sleeping taking place there. Does anyone know if this actually happened?

In 1992 I stayed for a weekend in the Y in downtown Chicago. Decent room, if very small, and of course I had to walk down the hall for the communal shower, but it was clean and cheap. Don’t know if it’s still there; if memory serves, it was on Butler Street.