Ellsworth F. Bunker was an American businessman and diplomat. He is perhaps best known for being a hawk on the war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. As of February 2024,Bunker is one of only two people to have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice,and the only person to receive both awards With Distinction.
The New York City Transit Authority is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,the busiest and largest transit system in North America,the NYCTA has a daily ridership of 8 million trips.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in North America,serving 12 counties in Downstate New York,along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation,carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide,and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.
The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA),doing business as MTA Bridges and Tunnels,is an affiliate agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that operates seven toll bridges and two tunnels in New York City. The TBTA is the largest bridge and tunnel toll agency in the United States by traffic volume. It generated more than $2.4 billion in toll revenue from 335 million vehicles in 2023. As of 2023,its operating budget was $596 million;the budget is funded through taxes and fees.
Spuyten Duyvil station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line,serving the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood of the Bronx,New York City.
Fernando James Ferrer is an American politician who was the borough president of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001. Ferrer was a candidate for mayor of New York City in 1997 and 2001 and was the Democratic Party nominee for mayor in 2005,when he was defeated by Michael Bloomberg. Ferrer served on the New York City Council in the 1980s and has served as chairman and vice chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Richard Ravitch was an American politician and businessman who served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York Governor David Paterson. A native of New York City,he graduated from Yale Law School and he worked in his family's real estate development business,a number of government and government-appointed positions,including with the New York State Urban Development Corporation and Metropolitan Transportation Authority,and in private industry,including tenures as chairman of the Bowery Savings Bank and as the chief owner representative in labor negotiations for Major League Baseball.
Stroock &Stroock &Lavan LLP was an American law firm based in New York City,with offices also in Los Angeles,Miami,and Washington,D.C.
Shira Ann Scheindlin is an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is currently of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
Robert Abrams is an American attorney and politician. He served as the attorney general of New York from 1979 to 1993 and was the Democratic nominee for the 1992 United States Senate election in New York.
Jeffrey Dinowitz is an American politician who represents District 81 in the New York State Assembly,which comprises Kingsbridge,Marble Hill,Norwood,Riverdale,Van Cortlandt Village,Wakefield,and Woodlawn Heights. Dinowitz has served in the New York State Assembly since 1994.
Edmund Virgil Conway was an American attorney,banker,philanthropist and civic leader who served as chairman and CEO of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority from 1995 to 2001. The MTA is the umbrella organization for the various agencies that operate the public transportation systems in the 14-county metropolitan New York City area. The operating agencies are:New York City Transit,Metro-North Railroad,Long Island Railroad,and Bridges and Tunnels. Mr. Conway,at his request,served without compensation. He was later chairman of Rittenhouse Advisors and a member of the board of Urstadt Biddle Properties.
David S. Mack is an American businessperson who operated The Mack Company,a New Jersey–based real estate firm founded by his father H. Bert Mack.
Rita Eleanor Hauser is an international lawyer known for persuading Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization to renounce violence in 1988. She also served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1969 to 1972. George W. Bush appointed her to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in 2001,serving through 2004,and she was appointed again by Barack Obama in 2009.
Jules Polonetsky is an American lawyer and internet privacy expert from Brooklyn,New York,who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Future of Privacy Forum. Polonetsky is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook on Consumer Privacy,with co-editors Omer Tene and Evan Selinger.
Peter I. B. Lavan was an American philanthropist,lawyer,and name partner of law firm Stroock &Stroock &Lavan.
David Schwartz was a judge of the United States Court of Claims from 1968 to 1982.
William John Ronan was an American public servant and academic who founded and served as the first chairman of New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority,from 1968 to 1974. He subsequently served as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1974 until 1977 and remained on the board of the Port Authority until 1990. Prior to entering state government as a key aide to Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in 1958,he was a professor of government at New York University and served as dean of NYU's graduate school of public service from 1953 to 1958.
Jeffrey Aronson is an American businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded the private investment firm Centerbridge Partners in 2005 with Mark T. Gallogly.
Moses Jesse Stroock was a Jewish-American lawyer from New York.
