92Y is a cultural and community center which welcomes people of all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

“I’ve been here for more than 30 years,” says Adler. “Every year, I am so proud of what we accomplish at 92Y, and grateful to have the opportunity to lead this remarkable institution.”

Adler and his team at 92Y are ambitious about the prominent organization and constantly keeping an eye toward the future.

“We are always looking for new ways to serve our current community,” he explains, “and to reach out to geographically diverse communities here in New York and around the world.”

This year alone 92Y has witnessed some incredible programs, many of which have been livecast to extend their reach beyond the center’s walls. 92Y has had programs featuring fashion icon Marc Jacobs, former Mayor Ed Koch and many more notable names.

 In January of this year, 92Y also offered their very first online class—a Molly Peacock poetry seminar on sonnets, which was conducted from Peacock’s home in Toronto for students all across the US and Canada.

Adler says online classes present opportunities that simply cannot take place in a physical classroom. “There is definitely more of that to come,” he adds.

 ”As always, our audiences here in the hall continue to enjoy talents like the incomparable pianist András Schiff and today’s most compelling authors, like Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith, who opened our Poetry Center season,” explains Adler.

Soon 92Y will celebrate the 75th anniversary of their renowned Poetry Center.

The institution will also celebrate the 25th anniversary of its educational outreach program, which brings teaching artists into public schools and brings students into 92Y’s concert hall. Adler says this program reaches about 8,000 students a year.

92Y tries to keep their vision of productive social change broad and openminded. “We also continue to find new ways to ‘scale our values,’ to be a catalyst for change and for ‘repairing the world,’ both here in New York and beyond,” explains Adler.

92Y developed the idea of Giving Tuesday, for instance, which would occur annually after Thanksgiving and be a day devoted to charity. The idea took off on a large-scale, national level.

“Creating this new kind of community, with tremendous collective potential for positive impact, is our mandate as a community and cultural center in the digital age,” says Adler. “And we are just getting started.”

 Like any nonprofit, 92Y also faces its fair of hardships. “Doing more with less is an ongoing challenge as is continuing to create programs that are new and relevant, especially in a rapidly changing world,” says Adler.

Nonetheless, the group “keep[s] a laser-sharp focus on [their] core values,” he says.

Looking ahead, Adler hopes to be able to help 92nd Street Y continue to be a leading voice in “the call to use the tremendous advances in technology to build new communities and forge new ways for people to join together for the greater good.”

 When he manages to steal a moment for himself, Adler enjoys spending time with his family, especially his young grandchildren. He notes he has also been getting back in touch with film photography, an old favorite hobby.

“When I want to ‘get away,’” he explains, “I try to read books that have absolutely nothing to do with my work at 92Y – and given the variety of things we do, that’s sometimes a challenge.”

May has seen a renewed vigor for certain activist movements, namely “Occupy Student Debt” and, on May 1, “May Day.” For it’s part, the Occupy Student Debt movement renewed its protest efforts as collective student debts broke the $1 Trillion threshold, with rallies planned for May 2 “at Union Square in Manhattan, and several colleges and universities around the country,” according to New York Times. However, thus far, the protesters that comprise Occupy Student Debt have been unsuccessful in achieving their goals, which include government regulation of private interest rates from existing loans offered from private lenders.

Similarly, May Day 2012 was an attempt by the self-proclaimed 99% (including many OWS Protestors) to “remove themselves” economically. Protesters were encouraged to skip out on work, shopping and spending in a globally coordinated attempt to “…collectively change working conditions in our world…” by “stepping out of the systems of production that confine and divide us,” according to MayDayNYC.org.

Both events circle back to the lingering disconnect that many New Yorkers – including students, immigrants and parents – have felt since the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement (which began in Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, 2011). Since then, those sympathetic with the movement have referred to themselves as “the 99%,” a perceived mark of disconnect from financial institutions, corporations, as well as other wealthy establishments and individuals.

By Bette Dewing

While I can hardly bear to think of the catastrophic Gulf oil spill, the president is wrong to say, “I’m hired to solve problems, not to show outrage.” Outrage is often essential to problem solving, including the following four.

The absence of outrage is why so many traffic crime tragedies go unreported. I only learned through this paper (May 27) of the tragic traffic killing of a 67-year-old man crossing the intersection at Third Avenue and East 60th Street. A witness said, “A cab was moving really fast… and just smashed into him.” Pending investigation, no charges filed. But where is the outrage at cabbies’ habit of driving fast and failing to yield when turning into a crosswalk? Cabbies may well be why a recent survey says New York drivers are the nation’s worst.

Because traffic tragedy particulars matter, I left a request with the 19th Precinct asking for the victim’s name and if any charges were filed. I also left a message the week before asking about the condition of a 70-year-old woman injured by a tractor-trailer in my area. Still waiting to hear back. Just two of countless, but outrageously uncounted, traffic killings and injuries.

And while alcohol-caused tragedies and crimes make the news when a public person is involved, countless go uncounted and so little is done to prevent them. Related to this year’s usual remembrance of Father’s Day, June 20 (“not just one day of remembrance in a year of forgetting”), is an urgent plea for legendary TV journalist Ted Koppel to make the battle against the over-drinking that killed his 40-year-old son, Andrew, as important as those waged against smoking and obesity. His outrage is needed to overcome shockingly skewed priorities, which, except for driving while intoxicated, still give a pass to the myriad of alcohol-caused tragedies and crimes. The intervention process and Alcoholics Anonymous groups are abysmally short-shifted.

And yes, outrage is surely due at the June 19 closing of La Boeuf à la Mode, a 50-plus-year-old restaurant on East 81st Street, just off East End Avenue. Surely needed is sustained outrage against exorbitant rent hikes, which have killed off countless community eateries, most recently the Yorkville Diner, on East 79th Street. But a reliable source tells me that the most outrageous reason for La Boeuf’s greatly lamented demise is, at least in part, that, “Younger people unabashedly tell me they forego the place because there’s so many older people there.” Come the elder evolution…

But how can anyone not love the high ceilings, rich colors, French doors, un-stark designs and lighting that make this place, especially the first dining/bar area, so utterly enchanting? It should be landmarked. Of course, any callow-type youth wouldn’t like being able to hear themselves talk.

Regulars will miss La Boeuf most keenly, and its proximity—especially for those for whom walking is not easy or possible.

“We’re losing the gem of the neighborhood,” laments a decidedly non-callow thirty something, Jose, a 45 East End Ave. staff member. “The neighborhood is losing its character!”

Aren’t they all, but where is the outrage?

But merci beaucoup, gracious sisters Christine and Claudine, and to your mother, Cecile, and your late father, Etienne, as well as the agreeable waiters and superlative chef. Your contribution to the neighborhood and city is inestimable. Unforgettable.

Worse, of course, is losing a home, which residents of 70, 72 and 74 East End Ave. fear since the Brearley School purchased these low-rises. Unaffordable rents make relocating nearby impossible. But where there’s the will, and enough outrage, surely classrooms can be found in buildings that nobody calls home.