Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award.For a lifetime of exceptional career accomplishments and unique service to the community, this year's award is presented to William Rudin, president of Rudin Management Company and industry leader. In 1979 after graduating from New York University New York University York University, at North York, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1959 as an affiliate of the Univ. of Toronto, became independent 1965. It has faculties of administrative studies, environmental studies, arts, education, pure and applied science, fine arts, and graduate studies and a school of law. There are research institutes in Canadian studies, Jewish studies, earth and space science, international and strategic studies, and Asia Pacific studies. - (NYU) Established in 1831, New York University today includes thirteen schools, colleges and divisions located in New York City's borough of Manhattan, as well as research centers and programs in the surrounding suburbs and abroad. http://www.nyu.edu/.'s School of Business and Public Administration, Mr. Rudin joined his family at Rudin Management Company, helping to manage the company's sixteen office towers and twenty luxury apartment buildings and has been involved in every major development since. He became president in 1993 and shortly thereafter helped revolutionize lower Manhattan's office landscape by ordering 55 Broad Street, which had been empty for five years, to bring broadband connectivity to every floor, thus creating a new community for new media and technology firms in downtown and changing the landscape of lower Manhattan. Mr. Rudin has since worked on developmental deals such as the new North American headquarters for Reuters at 3 Times Square and the conversion of the former AT&T headquarters at 32 Avenue of the Americas. As an industry leader, Mr. Rudin lectures at various educational institutions and industry functions. In addition, he has appeared on many televised shows discussing real estate and various issues that impact New York City. Mr. Rudin, much like his grandfather and father before him, is very involved in many political, civic and philanthropic endeavors. He is a vice chairperson of the Real Estate Board of New York's Executive Committee and chairman of The Association for a Better New York (ABNY ABNY - Association for Better New York (New York City, NY, USA)), co-founded by his father over thirty years ago. He is also a board member for The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Mayor Bloomberg's Commission on Economic Opportunity, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University, The New York Center for Autism, The Alliance for Downtown New York and The Partnership for New York City. The Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award memorializes Mr. Helmsley, his generation's most admired real estate executive. |
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