The McBurney YMCA was the first place I ever stayed after I moved to NYC in 1990. Later, I worked out there several times a week. I passed by that front desk so many times, handing my card over, then taking the cramped elevator up to the men’s locker room.

And the people I met! Omg. I wonder if I ever ran into Edward Albee? I’m sure I wouldn’t have recognized him if I had. Just another older man with a white towel around his waist. Lol!

God, I loved that place.