The organization's main purpose was to serve as a settlement house for Eastern European Jews immigrating to New York City.

The Art School, founded in 1905 and then re-organized by Abbo Ostrowsky in 1917, trained some of the most famous American visual artists of the mid-20th century including Chaim Gross, Elias Newman, Philip Evergood, Ben Shahn, Leonard Baskin, Concetta Scaravaglione, Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer, Joseph Margulies, Jo Davidson, Dina Melicov, Leo Gottlieb, Peter Blume, and Abraham Walkowitz.

The 14th Street Y uses contemporary Jewish sensibilities as a source of inspiration, connection, and learning for the individuals and families it serves, which live primarily throughout New York City's East Village.

[6] The Sirovich Center for Balanced Living provides older adults services and programs that acknowledge the interconnectedness of physical, mental/emotional, and social health.

Sirovich headquarters Educational Alliance's Older Adult Services, which also includes Project ORE and the Co-op Village Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC).