The Campaign to Preserve 2 Columbus Circle

Timeline

Dramatis Personae

Bibliography

 

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
The Architect’s Newspaper

Architectural Record

Architecture

ArchNewsNow

Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Art in America

ArtNews

Bloomberg News
James S. Russell

The Brian Lehrer Show

CBC Arts

Chelsea Clinton News

Crain’s New York Business

CBS Sunday Morning

The City Review
Carter B. Horseley

Curbed

Daily News
Lori Croghan

Departures

Dwell

e-Oculus

Fashion Wire Daily
Felix Salmon

Fiberarts
Stanley Bulbach

Gotham Gazette

The Gothamist

Hartford Advocate

Interiors
Olga Geuft

Los Angeles Times

The Magazine Antiques

Manhattan News

Manhattan Spirit

Metro

Metropolis

New York magazine

New York Post
Steve Cuozzo

New York Sun
James Gardner
Francis Morrone

New York Times
John Canaday
Hilton Cramer
David Dunlap
Paul Goldberger
Christopher Gray
William L. Hamilton
Ada Louise Huxtable
Michael Kimmelman
Herbert Muschamp
Nicolai Ouroussoff
Robin Pogrebin
Joyce Purnick
Carol Vogel
Fred Bernstein

New Yorker
Paul Goldberger

New York Observer
James Gardner

NY 1

Newsday

Oculus

The Oregonian

Our Town

Poughkeepsie Journal

Preservation magazine

Preservation Online

Real Estate Weekly

Resident

Slate
Timothy Noah (a.k.a. Chatterbox)

Superlawyers

Vanity Fair (British)

Wall Street Journal
Ada Louise Huxtable
Laurie Kerr

Washington Post

West Side Spirit

Western Interiors

The Westsider

Elected Officials/Government & Quasi-Government Offices/Agencies

Coliseum Tri-Board Task Force
Ethel Sheffer, Manhattan Community Board 7
Ross Graham, Manhattan Community Board 5
Lola Finkelstein, Manhattan Community Board 4

Manhattan Borough Board
Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields
Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger

Manhattan Community Board 5 (CB5)

Lola Finklestein
Jonathan Foster
Kathy Kinsella
Joyce Matz
Kyle Merker

New York City Council
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

New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC)

Andrew Alper
Michael Carey
Charles Millard
Neal Smith

New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)

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

New York City Planning Commission
Amanda Burden
Joseph Rose

New York State Assembly

Richard Gottfried
Scott Stringer

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (SHPO)
Bernadette Castro
Beth Cumming
Kathleen Howe
Ruth Pierpont

New York State Senate

Thomas Duane
Eric Schneiderman

Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Michael Cardozo
Daniel Doctoroff
Robert Kulikowski

Office of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
Scott C. Cantone
Randy Levine
Fran Reiter

United States Congress

Carolyn Maloney
Jerrold Nadler

Courts
New York Supreme Court
Justice Harold Beeler
Justice Walter Tolub
Justice Michael D. Stallman

New York Supreme Court

Appellate Division

Mayoral Candidates
Fernando Ferrer
Gifford Miller
Anthony Weiner

Organizations & Institutions
Advance Group

Allied Works Architecture
Brad Cloepfil

American Institute of Architects/New York Chapter (AIA/NY)
Rick Bell
Rolf Olhausen

Bard Graduate Center

Susan Weber Soros

Alexander and Louisa Calder Foundation

Citizens for a Responsive Landmarks Law

Clinton Special District Council

Coalition for a Livable West Side

Committee for Environmentally Sound Development

Olive Freud

Committee for Post-War Architecture

Michael Gotkin
John Jurayj
David Farmer
Zahid Family

DOCOMOMO US & NY Tri-State

Kathleen Randall

ESTO Photographics, Inc.

Ezra Stoller
Erica Stoller

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Federation of Westside Block Associations

Fine Arts Federation

Gulf & Western Foundation/Viacom

Harvard University

Scott Cohen

R.A. Heintges Architects

Historic Districts Council (HDC)

Simeon Bankoff
David Freudenthal
Michael Gotkin
Vicki Weiner
Kasirer Consulting

LANDMARK WEST! (LW!)
Arlene Simon
Bruce Simon
Kate Wood

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center

Marcus Rosenberg and Diamond
David Rosenberg, Esq.

Modern Architecture Working Group
Michael Gotkin
John Kriskiewicz

Museum of Arts & Design (MAD, fka American Craft Museum)
Laurie Beckelman
Aaron Betsky
Jerome Chazen
Holly Hotchner
Nanette Laitman
David McFadden

Municipal Art Society (MAS)
Kent Barwick
Ned Kaufman
Frank Sanchis
Brendan Sexton

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Richard Moe

New York Cultural Center

New York Landmarks Conservancy

Peg Breen

Preservation League of New York State

Real Estate Board of New York

Recent Past Preservation Network

Related Companies

Steven Ross

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Save Fenway Park

Erika Tarlin

63rd and 64th Street Block Association

Source Communications

Steelcase

Turtle Bay Association

West Village Committee

The Urban Arts Committee of Miami Beach

Urban Environmental Law Center

Antonia Levine Bryson, Esq.
Wiss Janney Elstner
Kimball Beasley
Kyle Normandin

Women’s City Club

World Monuments Fund

Assembled by Kate Wood for the New York Preservation Archive Project, 2007-8.  The following 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”. 

 

 

Photograph from the Archives of Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus

This publication was made possible with a grant

from the New York State Council on the Arts