[2] The goal of the organization was to increase interest in the recorder as an instrument and to promote music written for it.
[3] The first president of the New York Recorder Guild was Bernard Krainis; Martha Bixler was appointed vice-president and, one year later in 1961, music director.
[3] In the late 1970s, the group moved into offices shared with its parent organization, the American Recorder Society, at 12 East 16th Street, New York, NY.
[2] In 2017, the NYRG was revitalized by Natalie Lebert and Deborah Booth,[11] with meetings at The Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan.
[12][13] In 2022, these monthly meetings moved to the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Manhattan,[2] and NYRG members took part in subway performances of music by Bach, with The Uptown Cantata Project.