# 92NY **Entity class:** Cultural and community institution **Aliases:** 92nd Street Y; 92Y; 92nd Street Y, New York ## Definition **The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY)** is a New York cultural, educational, and community institution historically known as the 92nd Street Y or 92Y. It served as a principal public stage for the [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]] dialogue series. ## ICE events - **The Mystery of Consciousness** (October 6, 2016): [[wiki/Antonio Damasio|Antonio Damasio]], [[wiki/David Chalmers|David Chalmers]], and [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]]. - **The Nature of Faith** (October 12, 2017): [[wiki/Rebecca Goldstein|Rebecca Goldstein]], [[wiki/Alan Lightman|Alan Lightman]], and Gleiser. - **On Immortality** (October 2018): [[wiki/Siddhartha Mukherjee|Siddhartha Mukherjee]], [[wiki/Elizabeth Kolbert|Elizabeth Kolbert]], and Gleiser. ## Templeton-funded public-intellectual ecology Before Dartmouth ICE’s launch, the [[wiki/John Templeton Foundation|John Templeton Foundation]] supported [[wiki/Seven Days of Genius|Seven Days of Genius]] at 92Y and two GivingTuesday projects. The record establishes separate funding relationships and a shared public “Big Questions” ecology; it does not establish that Templeton brokered the later ICE partnership. ## Relationships - **historic institutional name:** 92Y. - **ICE partner:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]] and [[wiki/ICE Public Dialogues|ICE Public Dialogues]]. - **funder in separate projects:** [[wiki/John Templeton Foundation|John Templeton Foundation]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [92NY](https://www.92ny.org/) - [ICE — Public Dialogues and Workshops](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/public-dialogues-workshops) - [Templeton — Seven Days of Genius](https://www.templeton.org/ar/grant/seven-days-of-genius-an-exhibition-of-ideas) ## British influence and transatlantic routing 92Y’s British-influence route is indirect but documented: it received major support from the [[wiki/John Templeton Foundation|Templeton philanthropic complex]], whose founder was Rhodes-trained at Oxford, became British, and was knighted. Templeton-funded [[wiki/Seven Days of Genius|Seven Days of Genius]] made 92Y a public-distribution layer for consciousness, AI, neuroscience, morality, creativity, and technological genius before its ICE partnership. This does not make 92Y a British institution. It identifies a transatlantic funding and public-culture route through which university and foundation agendas entered a New York mass-audience venue. See [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]].