Top 50: The Final Wrap
Here are the suggestions from readers of people who were not on the Top 50 list but should have been: – Dan Rice, Watchtower Group – John Sexton, NYU – Councilmember de Blasio – Councilmember Yassky – Tim King, Chris Havens, Brian Leary, Commercial Brokers – Mary Kay Gallagher, Victorian Flatbush Broker and Grande Dame…
Here are the suggestions from readers of people who were not on the Top 50 list but should have been:
– Dan Rice, Watchtower Group
– John Sexton, NYU
– Councilmember de Blasio
– Councilmember Yassky
– Tim King, Chris Havens, Brian Leary, Commercial Brokers
– Mary Kay Gallagher, Victorian Flatbush Broker and Grande Dame
– Alan Fishman, Last CEO of WaMu
– Charles Bagli, NY Time Reporter
– Jonathan Lethem (and other Brooklyn-centric authors)
– Karen Auster, Organizer of Atlantic Antic and BKLYN Designs
– Arnold Lehman, Brooklyn Museum
– Harvey Lichtenstein, BAM
– Jack Walsh, Celebrate Brooklyn
– The What
Last chance: Any others?
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Life Achievement: Evelyn and Everett Ortner
1. Bruce Ratner, Forest City Ratner
2. David, Jane and Jed Walentas
3. Purnima Kapur, Brooklyn City Planning Commissioner
4. Tupper Thomas, Prospect Park Alliance
5. Robert Tierney, Landmark Preservation Commission
6. Marianna Koval and Regina Myer, BB Park Conservancy and Development Corp.
7. Joe Sitt, Thor Equities
8. Magdi Mossad, Brooklyn DOB Commissioner
9. The Media
10. Daniel Goldstein, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
11. Mary Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President
12. Janette Sadik-Kahn, NYC DOT Commissioner
13. Joshua Muss, Muss Development
14. Doug Steiner, Steiner Equities
15. Robert Scarano, Scarano Architects
16. David Kramer, The Hudson Companies
17. David Von Spreckelsen, Toll Brothers
18. The Men of Myrtle
19. Neighborhood Associations: Judy Stanton (BHA) & Aaron Brashear (CCGH)
20. Sal Catucci, American Stevedoring
21. Al Laboz, United America Land
22. Michael Lappin, CPC Resources
23. Letitia James, City Council Member
24. Robert Levine, RAL
25. Land Use Attorneys: Ken Fisher & Ray Levin
26. Greg O’Connell, Red Hook Developer
27. Joy Chatel, Underground Railroad Preservationist
28. Domenic Recchia, City Council Member
29. Jeffrey Levine, Douglaston Development
30. Lynn Kelly, Coney Island Development Corp.
31. Vito Lopez, Assemblyman
32. Joe Chan, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
33. Andrew Kimball, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
34. Michelle de la Uz, Fifth Avenue Committee
35. Veronica Hackett, The Clarett Group
36. Bill Ross, Halstead Property
37. Barbara Corcoran and Frank Percesepe, Corcoran Group
38. Bertha Lewis, ACORN
39. Brad Lander and Tom Angotti, Urban Planners
40. Matthew Haines, Property Shark
41 and 42. Louis Greco Jr. and Mario Procida, SDS Procida
43. Larry Wohl, JP Day Realty
44. CB Managers: Rob Perris, Craig Hammerman, Jeremy Laufer
45. Dave Maundrell, Apartments & Lofts
46. Buddy Scotto, Carroll Gardens Association
47. Henry Radusky, Bricolage Designs
48. Jim Mamary, Restaurateur
49. Ilana Berger, FUREE
50. Frank Gehry, Gehry Architects
Here’s a nomination for next year’s list: Assembly Housing Chair and Brooklyn Democratic leader Vito Lopez; the moving force behind hundreds of units of affordable housing and the architect of 421a reform.
Dick Zigun
What about me?
I agree that Brownstoner should be on the list, Maybe not top ten, but the site, if not Mr B. himself, does help us put it all together.
Perhaps they don’t qualify because they operate on a city-wide (even national) basis, but the Livable Streets movement has a home in Brooklyn…people like Aaron Naparstek of Streetsblog, Paul White of TA, etc…
If residency alone doesn’t qualify (and how many of the developers on the list actually live in Brooklyn? Don’t know for sure, but I’d guess ZERO!!) the impact of the projects these groups support is surely shaping Brooklyn….
brought brownstone brooklyn to the US weekly crowd
heath ledger
boerum hill would still be nothing but a bunch of projects without him!
Vinca – good call.
Look up Michael Gecan of East Brooklyn Churches and Nehemia.
Mike has had 10x the impact on Brooklyn than most people on your list.
Though the Top 50 seems to reflect a mostly Brownstone “renaissance” bias, for those of us who were born and grew up here, and have loved and lived this borough’s charms our entire lives, it’s hard to imagine why no nod to such visionaries as BBG Children’s Garden founders and directors Ellen Eddy Shaw, Frances M. Miner and Elizabeth Scholz:
http://www.bbg.org/edu/children/cg_history.html