Child drownings in Detroit are rising, especially among low-income families of color, prompting safety initiatives this ...

This branch was the newest Detroit YMCA in the 1973 phone book. It was built in the years after World War II, and unlike the Detroit Ys of the 1920s and 1930s, it never had residences.

There once was an indoor swimming pool, but it was filled in years ago. According to Free Press archives, the YMCA of Metro Detroit sold the 140,000-square-foot building to Operation Get Down for $1.

Underwood spent nearly 10 years at the Detroit YMCA before departing for Atlanta in 2012, where he began his career, to serve as vice president-financial development and executive director.

A Detroit-area YMCA was forced to shut down an "educational" activity that forced kids to act as slaves at auction after parents complained ...

Boll Family YMCA on Broadway Street in Detroit on Thursday, July 6, 2017. All but one of the old-style Detroit Ys in the phone book had several floors of single-room-occupancy residences.

DETROIT – Demolition has started for an iconic former YMCA building in Detroit that has been closed for more than two decades. The former Hannan Memorial YMCA building, at 10401 E. Jefferson ...

Detroit — Leaders of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit are shutting down the early learning center at the Y's downtown location at the end of August due to declining enrollment.. In a notice sent ...

Located right downtown, the Boll Family YMCA is Detroit's only inner-city YMCA, and childcare options in the area are few and far between.

There once was an indoor swimming pool, but it was filled in years ago. According to Free Press archives, the YMCA of Metro Detroit sold the 140,000-square-foot building to Operation Get Down for $1.

A social services organization on Detroit's east side has closed its housing shelter after 26 years and is attempting to sell the now-empty building: a giant YMCA from the 1930s. The nonprofit ...