Millers Make a City Bloom
Designing gardens, running the City Council & lots of community work
Once a year, late on a summer day, public garden design expert extraordinaire Lynden Miller crosses Fifth Avenue to Central Park and heads north just a few blocks to the Conservatory Garden. This is not one of her regular working trips there. Instead, she picks a day to visit when the staff members—her colleagues, her friends—are not around. She wants to experience the lovely public space as it draws everyday New Yorkers and natural interactions. She sits and sees.
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Finding Small-Town Warmth in the Big City
Former educators, the Winfields help the arts & the neighborhood
New York City wound up surprising Shelley Winfield. After growing up in Germantown, Penn., she thought she would find anonymity and a sense of strangers leading separate lives once she landed in Manhattan. Instead, when she got here about four decades ago as a young woman, she found neighbors who cared.
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Law & Order & Love
Morgenthau & Franks, famed East Side couple, give back to the neighborhood
East Siders may be proud to claim the former district attorney as one of their own, but Robert Morgenthau’s perspective is a little bit broader.
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Philanthropy Work Far Beyond P.R.
Howard Rubenstein, a public relations giant, is a leader in the art of giving
It was “a vital lesson,” Howard Rubenstein said, and it came from his parents.
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The East Side’s Silver Lining
Assembly Speaker fights for schools close to home & across the state
By Josh Rogers
Someday there should be a subway line running under Second Avenue, and when the line opens, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who has championed the project more than Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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A Family Bent on Building a Better New York
Bill Rudin maintains a reputation for excellence, with help from a new generation
Bill Rudin has roots—and they’re deep on the Upper East Side.
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A Name New York Charities Know Well
Tisch family continues to support worthy city causes
Laurence Tisch died November 15, 2003. His brother, Preston Robert “Bob” Tisch, died two years later on the same date. But the two brothers, so central to the life of their city and especially its philanthropic endeavors, developed a passion for giving that remains very much alive.
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Help Even if You Haven’t ‘Fallen & Can’t Get Up’
New monitors offer medication reminders and help seniors monitor diseases
By Alan Krawitz
For Manhattan resident Tammy Lawrence, her health monitor is much more than a good idea; it provides her genuine peace of mind.
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Bird Is the Word at West Side Wildlife Rehab Center
New Yorkers might assume there’s a wildlife rehabilitation center somewhere within the city limits—a reasonable assumption in a city that boasts three zoos, a botanical garden in every outer borough, and is home to many animal and environmental rights groups.
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Designing the Perfect Bachelor Pad Digs
Dale Cohen knows what men want, and often the things they want are TVs. Most often, however, the single men who are her interior design clients want someone to do the worrying and planning for them, which is exactly what Cohen does so well.
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