Stephen Siegel receives Urban Leadership Award.

New York University Real Estate Institute, one of the industry's most prestigious organizations, honored Insignia/ESG's chairman and CEO Stephen B. Siegel with the Institute's Urban Leadership Award during its annual dinner. This year's event, held at the Waldorf-Astoria on March 8, drew record numbers of top industry professionals who came to toast one of their own.

"We are extremely pleased to award Steve with our highest honor - The Urban Leadership Award," noted D. Kenneth Patton, director of the Real Estate Institute. "In an era in which real estate has changed so profoundly, we are proud to acknowledge and salute the very foundation of our business."

Over 800 of the top names in real estate came to honor Siegel as he became the newest recipient of the "Archie" as the bronze and wood trophy has come to be called. In addition to the event's co-chairs, Jonathan Mechanic, Joseph DeLuca and Mitchell Rudin and Advisory Board chairman emeritus, Larry Silverstein, prestigious industry executives in attendance included Steve M. Ross, Bill Rudin, Eugene M. Grant, Benjamin McGrath, Veronica Hackett, Robert Selsam, Robert Blumenthal, Ron Uretta, and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gottesman, among many others. Also present were Souvenir Journal co-chairs Alan J. Pomerantz, Scott Gottlieb and Brian Gell.

The Institute's Urban Leadership Award is given to a prominent leader who has contributed significantly to the growth and prestige of real estate as an industry. This year's honoree joins such distinguished past recipients as Mortimer B. Zuckerman, John E. Zuccotti, Richard B. Saltzman and Stephen M. Ross.

"In addition to providing world-class training for succeeding generations of real estate leaders, the Real Estate Institute fosters a sense of community involvement within our industry, said Siegel. "The Institute recognizes that those of us who are fortunate enough to succeed in this business should give back to the community through civic leadership and charitable works - not only monetarily, but with our time, our expertise and our counsel. For that reason, it is truly an honor to be recognized by the Real Estate Institute with this prestigious award."

Firmly committed to community service, Siegel is also deeply involved in charitable and civic affairs. He is the general chairman of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children (AH RC), a trustee of the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, and serves on the board of directors of the City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, the Neighbors Together - a community outreach center in Brooklyn, the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and the Cardoza School of Law of Yeshiva University.