2 Columbus Circle: Dramatis Personae
The Campaign to Preserve 2 Columbus Circle
Dramatis Personae
People
Michael Henry Adams
Kurt Andersen
Brooke Astor
Bruce Barnes
Barry Bergdoll
Nicholas Blechman
J. Carter Brown
Paul Spencer Byard
Robert Campbell
Joseph Cunningham
Suzanne Davis
Sophia deBoer
Joseph Giovannini
Raymond Gomez
Roberta Brandes Gratz
Francesca von Habsburg
Diane Hartford
Huntington Hartford
Juliet Hartford
Erivan Haub
Mary Anne Hunting
Karrie Jacobs
John Kaliski
Blair Kamin
Jane Holtz Kay
Reed Kroloff
Diane Lewis
Christopher London
Philip Lopate
Sue Mellins
Thomas Mellins
Dietrich Neumann
Gene Norman
Liz O’Brien
Martin Plissner
Theodore H.M. Prudon
Prince Rainier III of Monaco
Terence Riley
Leslie E. Robertson
Witold Rybczynski
Inga Saffron
Ian Schraeger
Vincent Scully
Whitney North Seymour, Jr.
Robert Silman
Michael Sorkin
Beverly Moss Spatt
Robert A.M. Stern
Edward Durell Stone
Ed Stone, Jr.
Hicks Stone
Robert V. Stone
Donald J. Trump
Bernard Tschumi
Billie Tsien
Anthony M. Tung
Alan Wanzenberg
Tom Wolfe
Fareed Zakaria
Thomas T.K. Zung
Press
- James S. Russell
- Carter B. Horseley
- Lori Croghan
- Felix Salmon
- Stanley Bulbach
- Olga Geuft
Steve Cuozzo
- James Gardner
- Francis Morrone
New Yorker
- Paul Goldberger
- James Gardner
- Timothy Noah (a.k.a. Chatterbox)
- Ada Louise Huxtable
- Laurie Kerr
Elected Officials/Government & Quasi-Government Offices/Agencies
- Ethel Sheffer, Manhattan Community Board 7
- Ross Graham, Manhattan Community Board 5
- Lola Finkelstein, Manhattan Community Board 4
- Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields
- Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger
- Lola Finklestein
- Jonathan Foster
- Kathy Kinsella
- Joyce Matz
- Kyle Merker
- Gail Benjamin
- Gale Brewer
- Ronnie Eldridge
- Margarita Lopez
- Eva Moskowitz
- Jerome X. O’Donovan
- Bill Perkins
- Edward Sullivan
- Christine Quinn
New York City Convention & Visitors Bureau
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
- Andrew Alper
- Michael Carey
- Charles Millard
- Neal Smith
- Sarah Bradford Landau
- Richard Olcott
- Sherida Paulsen
- Marjorie Pearson
- Rev. Thomas Pike
- Jennifer J. Raab
- Charles Sachs
- Mark Silberman
- Vicki Match Suna
- Robert B. Tierney
- Ronda Wist
- Amanda Burden
- Joseph Rose
- Richard Gottfried
- Scott Stringer
- Bernadette Castro
- Beth Cumming
- Kathleen Howe
- Ruth Pierpont
- Thomas Duane
- Eric Schneiderman
- Michael Cardozo
- Daniel Doctoroff
- Robert Kulikowski
- Scott C. Cantone
- Randy Levine
- Fran Reiter
- Carolyn Maloney
- Jerrold Nadler
Courts
- Justice Harold Beeler
- Justice Walter Tolub
- Justice Michael D. Stallman
New York Supreme Court
- Appellate Division
Mayoral Candidates
Gifford Miller
Anthony Weiner
Organizations & Institutions
- Brad Cloepfil
- Rick Bell
- Rolf Olhausen
- Susan Weber Soros
- Olive Freud
- Michael Gotkin
- John Jurayj
- David Farmer
- Zahid Family
- Kathleen Randall
- Ezra Stoller
- Erica Stoller
- Scott Cohen
- Simeon Bankoff
- David Freudenthal
- Michael Gotkin
- Vicki Weiner
Kasirer Consulting
- Arlene Simon
- Bruce Simon
- Kate Wood
- David Rosenberg, Esq.
- Michael Gotkin
- John Kriskiewicz
- Laurie Beckelman
- Aaron Betsky
- Jerome Chazen
- Holly Hotchner
- Nanette Laitman
- David McFadden
- Kent Barwick
- Ned Kaufman
- Frank Sanchis
- Brendan Sexton
- Richard Moe
- Peg Breen
- Steven Ross
- Erika Tarlin
- Antonia Levine Bryson, Esq.
- Wiss Janney Elstner
- Kimball Beasley
- Kyle Normandin
Assembled by Kate Wood for the New York Preservation Archive Project, 2007-8. Theabove list includes individuals and entities whose roles in the story of 2 Columbus Circle from the 1950s to 2008 register in the “Chronology”. Explanations of these roles can be found by using names from this list as search terms in the “Chronology”.
This publication was made possible with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.