Battery Park City is a mainly residential 92-acre (37 ha) planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by the Hudson River on the west,the Hudson River shoreline on the north and south,and the West Side Highway on the east. The neighborhood is named for the Battery,formerly known as Battery Park,located directly to the south.
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman,politician,philanthropist,and author. He is the majority owner,co-founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P. He served as the mayor of New York City for three terms from 2002 to 2013 and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. He has served as chair of the Defense Innovation Board,an independent advisory board that provides recommendations on artificial intelligence,software,data and digital modernization to the United States Department of Defense,since June 2022.
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–1968);Countess Teresa di Vicenzo,wife of James Bond,in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969);Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–2017);and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway a year later.
George Elmer Pataki is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd governor of New York from 1995 to 2006. An attorney by profession,Pataki was elected mayor of his hometown of Peekskill,New York,and went on to be elected to the State Assembly and the State Senate. He narrowly defeated three-term incumbent Governor Mario Cuomo in 1994 and would go on to be reelected twice more and served three consecutive terms. He was the third Republican since 1923 to win New York's governorship,after Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller.
The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) is a public community college in New York City. Founded in 1963 as part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system,BMCC grants associate degrees in a wide variety of vocational,business,health,science,engineering and continuing education fields.
660 Fifth Avenue is a 41-story office building on the west side of Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The office tower was designed by Carson &Lundin and built for its developer Tishman Realty and Construction from 1955 to 1957.
New York held various elections on November 7,2006. Most notably,elections were held for the state governor,attorney general,comptroller,and for the U.S. Senate,all of which saw Democrats win and build on their existing majority. While Democrats had already been a strong force in the New York City area,most of the Democratic gains in 2006 occurred upstate. Former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer won the 2006 gubernatorial election by a record margin,while Andrew Cuomo replaced him as the new attorney general. Alan Hevesi was re-elected as comptroller,despite mounting ethics concerns. Hillary Clinton was re-elected to the Senate. For the first time in over 50 years,all major statewide elected offices were held by one party. For the first time in over 60 years,they were all held by Democrats.
399 Park Avenue is a 41-story office building that occupies the entire block between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street and 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan,New York City. The building was the world headquarters of Citigroup from 1961 when it moved from 55 Wall Street until 2015 when the company moved to 388 Greenwich Street.
SL Green Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust that primarily invests in office buildings and shopping centers in New York City. As of December 31,2019,the company owned 43 properties comprising 14,438,964 square feet,and is reported to be "New York City’s largest office landlord".
Lindsay Pollock is an art journalist,and was appointed as the Whitney Museum of American Art's Chief Communications and Content Director in 2018.
Helena Smith Dayton (1883–1960) was an American film maker,painter and sculptor working in New York City who used fledgling stop motion and clay animation techniques in the 1910s and 1920s,one of the earliest animators to experiment with clay animation. Her "clay cartoons" were humorous in nature,and Dayton was featured in the "Humorist Salons" in New York City. She spent the end of World War I in Paris managing an YMCA canteen for soldiers. She was a published author,ranging in genre from journalism to plays to a guide to New York City.
Michael Schlein is the president and CEO of Accion,a global microfinance and impact investment nonprofit.
Dawn Mello was an American fashion retail executive and consultant and the one-time fashion director and president of Bergdorf Goodman. Subsequently she moved to Italy to manage Gucci. Later she was the president of her own firm,Dawn Mello &Associates LLC.
Stephanie Kugelman is a retired advertising executive,branding expert and executive mentor. She is the former Vice Chairman and Chief Strategic officer of Young &Rubicam Inc,which was a publicly traded S&P company until its acquisition by British holding company WPP plc in 2000 for $4.7 billion. Her career at Y&R started as a junior researcher and she remains a Vice Chairman Emeritus of the company. As a brand strategist,since 2011 has most recently served on the public boards of Whole Foods Market,and Young &Rubicam Inc,and sits on the board of Home Shopping Network(HSN). She is also Vice Chairman of Solera Capital,a New York private equity firm.
Ariana Rockefeller is an American heiress,model and amateur equestrian. She is a granddaughter of banker David Rockefeller,a great-granddaughter of financier John D. Rockefeller Jr.,and a great-great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller,founder of Standard Oil.
Zenia Mucha is an American businesswoman who was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of The Walt Disney Company.
Davey Alba is a technology reporter who covers Big Tech for Bloomberg News,after previously reporting on online disinformation for The New York Times.
Raymond J. McGuire is an American businessman and political candidate who worked as an executive at Citigroup. McGuire was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary.
One North End Avenue,also known as the New York Mercantile Exchange Building,is an office building and the only non-tower financial building in Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan,New York City. It is located on the coast of Battery Park City and the Hudson River and in front of 250 Vesey Street. It serves as the headquarters and trading facility of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
ClearBridge Investments (ClearBridge) is an equities focused asset management firm headquartered in New York City. It was previously the asset management unit of Citigroup until 2005 when it was rebranded as ClearBridge Investments. Currently it is a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments.
