NY attorney honored Nov. 14. (Transcripts).The Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, founded in 1870. The Metropolitan Museum is the foremost repository of art in the United States. It opened in 1880 on its present site on Central Park facing Fifth Ave. The building was designed by Calvert Vaux and J. W. Mould and expanded by Richard Morris Hunt and by McKim, Mead, and White during the early 1900s. honored preeminent New York attorney Sandy Lindenbaum of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP at its Real Estate Council Benefit Nov. 14 at the museum. The Real Estate Council and Real Estate Council Benefit support the Museum's education programs, raising much needed funds for more than 20,000 education programs conducted each year at the Metropolitan. Lindenbaum has been instrumental in shaping many of the landmarks that identify and frame the city's skyline. His commercial and residential development clients include Bear Stearns, Tishman Speyer Properties, Vornado Realty Trust, Glenwood Management, and the Resnick, Silverstein and Solow Organizations. Projects include the Museum of Modern Art, Pierpont Morgan Library Morgan Library: see Pierpont Morgan Library Pierpont Morgan Library, originally the private library of J. Pierpont Morgan, in 1924 made a public institution by his son J. P. Morgan as a memorial to his father (see Morgan, family). The library is privately supported; it is located at Madison Ave. and 36th St., New York City. It consists of the original Beaux-Arts building (1906) designed by McKim, Mead & White, a 1928 annex, and a modern addition (2006) designed by Renzo Piano.. and Heatst building expansions; Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum, officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, major museum of modern art in New York City. Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular building (1959) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It holds major exhibitions of the works of contemporary artists. Its permanent collection includes, among many modern works, numerous pieces by Brancusi and Kandinsky., Yeshiva University Yeshiva University, in New York City; mainly coeducational; begun 1886 as Yeshiva Eitz Chaim, a Jewish theological seminary, chartered 1928 as Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College; renamed 1945. Yeshiva, the oldest and largest university under Jewish auspices in the United States, maintains four campuses in New York and affiliated campuses in Los Angeles and Jerusalem, Israel., Rockefeller Center, the Chrysler Building Chrysler Building, in midtown Manhattan, New York City, at Lexington Ave. between 42d and 43d St. The ultimate art deco-style skyscraper, it was commissioned by Walter P. Chrysler, designed by William Van Alen, and built in 1926–30. For about a year, until the completion (1931) of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler was the world's tallest building., Radio City Music Hall, and the new Penn Center Special Signage District. Among many high-profile accomplishments, Lindenbaum negotiated the transfer of air rights from Grand Central Terminal to new Bear Stearns headquarters on Madison Avenue. He is a member of the executive committee and vice president of the Real Estate Board of New York and a director of the Association for a Better New York. Daniel Brodsky, Steven Roth and William C. Rudin were chairs of the Real Estate Council Benefit Committee; Douglas Durst, Bruce C. Ratner, Burton P. Resnick and Sheldon H. Solow were co-chairs. |
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