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August Heckscher
CIVITAS Founder & Chairman Emeritus 1914-1997 A lifelong advocate of public affairs and the arts, August Heckscher served his country, city, and neighborhood through a diverse career in public service. Primarily a writer, having worked as chief editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune, August was appointed to work for the Kennedy Administration as special consultant on the arts, and from 1967-1972 he served as Parks Commissioner and Administrator of Cultural Affairs for New York City. Throughout his life he published a series of books that illustrate his dedicated interest and knowledge of politics and culture, most notably When LaGuardia Was Mayor (1978), and his 1993 biography, Woodrow Wilson. In the 1962 book of essays The Public Happiness, August expressed his feelings about the rewards implicit in public service. Works which are truly public are comparatively fewbut they are very precious and the source of much that is enjoyable in the common life. They comprise those things, which make for neighborliness and a sense of roots, which remind us we are one with other generations and give us peace in surroundings that keep the spirit whole. Though he grew up on Long Island, August Heckscher later took residence on the Upper East Side where he became an advocate for neighborhood concerns about the built environment. In 1981 he helped found CIVITAS, a coalition of citizens committed to improving neighborhood quality of life. Since 2001, CIVITAS has presented The August Heckscher Award to commemorate a lifetime of community service.

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PREVIOUS AUGUST HECKSCHER AWARD HONOREES

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Carmine Branagan and The National Academy Museum and School, 2012

Penelope Maynard and Lynden Miller for the Transformation of Central Parks Conservatory Garden, 2012

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2012 Carmine Branagan and the National Academy Museum and School

For her leadership and the remarkable renovation of the institutions Fifth Avenue landmark.

2007 Metropolis Magazine

for everything you do for Manhattans East Side!

Penelope Maynard and Lynden Miller

For their rescue and restoration of Central Parks Conservatory Garden.

Award accepted by Horace Havemeyer III, Publisher, and Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief For publishing clear and thought provoking articles on design excellence, and for educating readers about engaging and creative projects, city and nationwide.

2011 Tony Bechara, Chair, and El Museo del Barrio

For a commitment to Latino, Latin American and Caribbean arts and for thriving as a standout cultural institution in East Harlem.

2006 Kathy Doyle and Richard Ravitch

For demonstrating the value of private citizens working for the public good through community and government in education, business, housing and urban issues.

Paul Buckhurst, Frank Fish, and Georges Jacquemart and BFJ Planning

For a commitment to good urban design and for educating citizens to participate effectively in shaping their communities.

2005 New York City Audubon

2010 Joan K. Davidson and Robert Quinlan

Award accepted by Marcia Fowle, Board President, and E.J. McAdams, Executive Director For championing the protection of New York Citys bird species through effective and innovative programming such that birds and people may coexist in this crowded city.

For leadership and committment to restoring and revitalizing New York Citys historic structures and neighborhoods.

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2009 Carlton Brown and Bruce S. Fowle

2004 Honorable Amanda Burden

For exemplifying socially and environmentally responsible urban development through the practice and advocacy of sustainable design.

For recognizing the value of New York City neighborhoods by leading positive urban planning initiatives in zoning, development and housing throughout the five boroughs.

EDITH KEAN
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2008 Museum of the City of New York

2003 Genie Rice

Award accepted by Susan Henshaw Jones, President and Director, and Newton P.S. Merrill, Chair Emeritus For providing the people of New York with an engaging forum to celebrate the citys heritage of diversity, culture, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.

For commitment to the Upper East Side and East Harlem neighborhoods as a co-founder of CIVITAS, a concerned citizen, and an active community leader.

2001 Betty Cooper Wallerstein

For fighting the tough battles on behalf of her neighbors in order to preserve and protect the quality of life in her neighborhood and beyond.

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2013 HONORARY CHAIRS

Daniel Brodsky and Joan K. Davidson
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Daniel Brodsky

Daniel is the senior partner of the Brodsky Organization, a family real estate business that has specialized in residential and mixed use development in Manhattan over the last fifty years. The Brodsky Organization recently built the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College on East 119th Street, which has been hailed for its positive impact on East Harlem. Dan is the chairman of the board at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he oversees 40 board members. He first became involved with the Met on their Real Estate Council, moving on to the Finance and Building Committees. Dans love for culture and quality of life is also evident in his position on the board of directors at the New York City Ballet, as well as his past appointment at the Municipal Art Society. He is on the citys Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, which advises the citys Cultural Affairs Department on issues relating to New Yorks cultural heritage and vibrancy. Dan is also on the board of trustees of New York University, and the Deans Council for the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, his alma mater. In addition, Dan is coop board president of his building on Park Avenue.

Joan is president emeritus of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and president of Furthermore grants in publishing. Furthermore funds publications concerning the city, architecture, art and design, history, and current social issues. The Fund and Furthermore have provided substantial funding for CIVITAS projects including the No More Tall Stories (1986), ABC of Zoning (1991) and New Zoning for East Harlem (2003) publications. Joan has served as chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, and as Commissioner of New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. She has continually worked in New York City and State on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, National Trust for Historic Preservation, American Farmland Trust, New York State Preservation League, Natural Resources Defense Council, Municipal Art Society, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, Public Theater, South Street Seaport, Columbia County Historical Society, and Columbia Land Conservancy. In February 2008, Joan was appointed chairman of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission and she serves on the board of the Hudson River Foundation. In recognition of her service to New York, Joan received CIVITASs August Heckscher award in 2010.

2013 HONOREES
Honorable Adrian Benepe and Edith Kean
Adrian has also served on 76 non-profit boards and helped to manage and develop significant publicprivate partnerships that contributed over one million annual volunteer hours and raised more than $165 million annually in private contributions. He recently became senior vice president for City Park Development for the Trust for Public Land.

Edith Kean
Edith Kean started public gardening shortly after she completed the landscape architecture program at the New York Botanical Garden. One of her first projects was to beautify the Park Avenue Mall near where she lived. When the Department of General Services set up GreenThumb in the 1970s to take over the cleaning up of abandoned buildings and vacant lots in low income neighborhoods, she became its landscape designer. The city offered applicants lumber, posts, wire, topsoil, tools and plant material, and Edie put the communitys dreams on paper. The abandoned properties were transformed into community centers: vegetable and flower gardens, clubhouses, and party sites. When the city moved to give the sites to developers, the environmental community rose up in opposition. They sued in court, and they won. GreenThumb has worked on over 1,500 gardens in neighborhoods in all the boroughs and has more than 15 gardens in East Harlem. When Adrian Benepe became Parks Commissioner Edie met with him and persuaded him to have the Parks Department take over jurisdiction of the gardens. Edie has also been active in larger gardens and parks, including serving on the board of the New York Botanical Garden, Friends of Fort Tryon Park and Governors Island Alliance. Additionally, she is chair of the board of the Friends for the High School for Environmental Studies. When there is a greening community effort, shes out there, drafting others to the cause, raising money, and moving others to action with her passion. Edie and her husband live on the Upper East Side where she continues to advocate for urban gardens.
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Adrian Benepe

Edith Kean

Adrian Benepe and Edith Kean are being honored for their major contributions to green space, parks and quality of life on the Upper East Side and in East Harlem.

Honorable Adrian Benepe

Adrian Benepe became a City Park Ranger after college, and held a succession of positions with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, including wetlands restoration and conservation of monuments and historic house museums. He= worked at the New York Botanical Garden and the Municipal Art Society, and then returned to NYC Parks and Recreation as Manhattan Borough Commissioner. In 2002 Mayor Bloomberg appointed Adrian Commissioner of Parks and Recreation where he oversaw the operation of over 29,000 acres of public park land, encompassing nearly 5,000 properties including over 1,000 playgrounds, 600 ball fields, 600 tennis courts, 63 swimming pools, 35 recreation centers, 14 miles of beach, and over 2.5 million street and park trees, with an annual expense and capital budget of over $800 million. During his tenure, the NYC park system grew by more than 800 acres, including major new parks such as Hudson River Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the High Line, and new standards for sustainable design were introduced to guide all landscape architecture and architecture projects.

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CIVITAS MISSION

Working For Quality In Urban Life

In 1981, when CIVITAS was founded, August Heckscher, its first chair, hearkened back to the Roman Republic to find a name that would express the spirit of the new community organization. The name chosen, CIVITAS referred to that quality of a citizen that made him deeply involved in the life and fate of his city. Such has been the guiding spirit for CIVITAS ever since. The mission of CIVITAS is to foster, mobilize and coordinate civic concern in the community of Manhattans Upper East Side and East Harlem. To that end, CIVITAS seeks to promote, preserve and protect residential neighborhoods that are lively and livable. To focus its energies and maximize its impact, CIVITAS has identified the following issues as its principal areas of concern:

Adrian Benepe and Edith Kean

And the Wonderful Work

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Updating Zoning in East Harlem CIVITAS is working with Community Board 11 to make the case for rezoning a section of East Harlem (Madison, Park and Lexington Avenues). In 2012, CIVITAS hired land use and outreach consultants to develop zoning recommendations with participation of East Harlem residents. The recommendations were developed to encourage the following community goals: affordable housing opportunities; economic development and job creation; new buildings that are contextual in scale with their surroundings; and revitalization of upper Park Avenue. The area addressed in the recommendations spans 115th to 132nd Streets and has not been rezoned in its entirety in over five decades. In January 2013, Community Board 11 approved the rezoning recommendations developed by CIVITAS and others for East Harlem. CIVITAS is working on the next steps which are certification, official review, additional public outreach and adoption by the Department of City Planning. Our goal is for the rezoning of this vital area to take place during the current and next mayoral administrations. Learn more about zoning at www.civitasnyc. org/east-harlem-rezoning.

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680 Park Avenue Recycling
Increasing Recycling in Our Community As part of its new program to improve the rate of recycling in the Upper East Side and in East Harlem, CIVITAS is targeting schools, apartment buildings and public housing. Based on the principle that good habits learned early can have lifelong impacts, CIVITAS has arranged to work in partnership with two schools in East Harlem. The other two objectives of the CIVITAS Recycling Initiative are: (a) extensive outreach Illustration by NYC Department of Sanitation, to apartment building managers and neighborhood Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling. organizations to promote participation in the Department of Sanitations Apartment Building Recycling Initiative; and, (b) to work with the New York City Housing Authority at one or more sites in East Harlem to facilitate improved recycling efforts through infrastructure changes and education of tenants. The recycling goals are daunting, but CIVITAS is prepared for the long haul.

Environmental Quality
Improving the Air We Breathe CIVITAS sponsored a series of air quality and heating oil workshops, which reached hundreds of East Siders by organizing community meetings and doorto-door outreach to supers, co-op board officers and neighbors. Attendees were given an overview of the harmful effects on air quality of No. 6 dirty heating oil; an introduction to the role of engineering firms in evaluating a buildings fuel consumption and conversion requirements; and a brief overview of financing options. The Upper East Side was recently determined to have among the worst air quality in New York City. Contributing to this problem is the burning of No. 6 and No. 4 oil to heat neighborhood apartment buildings and institutions. The City of New York has issued a moratorium on No. 6 fuel oil starting in 2015 and as a result, has adopted the Clean Heat program to assist buildings in converting to natural gas and/or No. 2 oil.

680 Park Avenue, circa 1918. Courtesy of Christopher Gray.

A Townhouse With Staying Power As New York City Parks Commissioner, CIVITAS founding chair August Heckscher spent a good deal of time in parklands, but as a Center for Inter-American Relations board member, he also spent many hours in the rooms of 680 Park Avenue. Currently home to the Americas Society, the five-story townhouse is one of four mansions on the blockfront known as the Pyne-Davison Row. It was designed by prestigious Beaux-Arts architects McKim, Mead & White and constructed between 191012 for financier and industrialist Percy Rivington Pyne. Wreckers and Rescuers In January 1965, when the house was almost 53 years old, it was nearly razed to make room for a 31-story 20

luxury co-op. The scaffolding went up, and for several days wreckers began to gut the mansions interior. Then, the Marquesa de Cuevas intervened. A nextdoor neighbor, the Marquesa offered to purchase the Pyne mansion, as well as two adjacent buildings slated for the demolition. As soon as the purchase contract was signed, demolition work halted. The following January, she gave 680 Park Avenue to the Center for Inter-American Relations, Inc., a new organization dedicated to cultivating cultural and trade relations between the United States and Latin America. It would take eighteen months to restore the mansions interior. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1970.
-Elizabeth Manus
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Trees
Tree Plantings and Stewardship Education As a result of CIVITAS advocacy, dozens of blocks of Third Avenue, East 86th Street and other areas are flourishing with street trees. We also recognize that educated, involved citizens are critical to healthy trees and collaborate with Trees New York on volunteer stewardship workshops in our neighborhood. Instruction topics include mulching, weeding and cleaning up tree bed soil. CIVITAS continues to report dead or damaged trees on the Upper East Side and in East Harlem to the NYC Parks Department and is organizing additional tree plantings and workshops in 2013.

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CIVITAS Honoring
A tree stewardship workshop on the East River Esplanade.

Honorable Adrian Benepe

Recent Events and Public Outreach

And

Edith Kean
With
Community members discussing the East Harlem Rezoning initiative. Sharon Pope, urbanist and volunteer, led a tour of Roosevelt Island. Neighbors attending one of a series of air quality and heating oil workshops.

The August Heckscher Award

Sandra Talavera Co-Founder & President Felipe Ventegeat Co-Founder

Recent Honors
2013 Visionary Award Recipient In April, CIVITAS will be presented the 2013 Visionary Award for the Reimagining the Waterfront: Manhattans East River Esplanade Design Competition and Exhibition by the FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts.

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Reimagining the Waterfront competition winners, at the Museum of the City of New York in June 2012. Photo by Karli Cadel.

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REIMAGINING THE WATERFRONT MANHATTANS EAST RIVER ESPLANADE

A community visioning session at the Museum of the City of New York in September allowed participants to present their ideas for the Esplanade.

Schoolchildren displaying ideas they created for the Reimagining the Waterfont exhibition. Courtesy of Elizabeth Hamby and EY Zipris.

Mark S. Alexander, David Beer, Margit & Jeff Bluestein, Jo Ahern Bressler, Lee Chong, Elisabeth R. Clark,Ray Cornbill, Nathalie & Marshall Cox, Janis M. Eltz, Cindy A. Fields, Conrad Foa, Marcia T. Fowle, Judy Fresco, Roberta Hodgson, Kathleen Marquardt, Jeanne & Edward McAnaney, Jean & Peter Pettibone, Janice & Gorman Reilly, Genie Rice, Agustin Rivera, Roberta Schneiderman, Therese Sweeney, Jim & Ceci Tripp, Felipe Ventegeat and Matthew S. Washington

The Reimagining the Waterfront jury discussed the competition at a panel in June.

Reimagining the Waterfont exhibition booklet written by Museum of the City of New York curator, Andrea Renner.

First Place Winner: Joseph Wood. 3X: 300% More Esplanade

Congratulates the 2013 Honorees:

Honorable Adrian Benepe and Edith Kean

The East River Esplanade (60th to 125th Streets) park serves a large area, but could be so much better. In 2012, CIVITAS sponsored an ideas competition that received international attention. The top eight designs were selected by a professional jury, chaired by architect Billie Tsien, and exhibited in a 2012 exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. CIVITAS is focusing on developing plans with the community to improve this important neighborhood park. Damage from Superstorm Sandy and planning for rising sea levels are key parts of the design process. All details of the project are on www.reimaginethewaterfront-civitas.com.

Salutes the Service of Past Board Members:

Jamie Gibbs, Diane Phillpotts and Ted Withington

Honors the Memory of:

Reita Cash, Joseph Rosenmiller, Irwin Schneiderman and Sally Walsh

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1981: Formation of CIVITAS

The former Ruppert Brewery site between Second & Third Avenues and 93rd & 94th Streets was being developed into a large residential complex. CIVITAS was formed to protest the proposed plan and sued the City for an Environmental Impact Statement. The suit failed, but the building height on Third Avenue was reduced. CIVITAS was underway.

1991: The ABC of Zoning

CIVITAS commissioned Jack Huberman to write and illustrate The ABC of Zoning to demystify the citys Zoning Resolution and complex planning issues. This has been an invaluable resource to hundreds of organizations and individuals.

1997: A Community Facilities Study

1998-2004: East 86th Street Trees and Tree Guards

1985: No More Tall Stories

CIVITAS initiated a study to make the case for lower, more contextual buildings. Paul Newman narrated a short documentary illustrating the issue. Watch the video at www.civitasnyc.org.

A troubling issue has been the expansion of community facilities into the rear yards of residential blocks - taking up light, space, and air from neighbors. CIVITAS conducted A Community Facilities Study in 1997 and issued recommendations for changes to the Dept. of City Planning (DCP). Aspects of this study are pending certification at DCP.

CIVITAS raised $75,000 to bring new trees and tree guards to East 86th Street, between First and Lexington Avenues. The project involved surveying, creating and enlarging tree beds, replacing damaged trees, and planting new ones.

1984: East 96th Street A Planning Study

CIVITAS worked with community members to achieve more affordable housing in smaller scale buildings, to improve the streetscape, and to obtain traffic recommendations.

1995: Opportunities & Issues: East 125th Street

1998: A Land Use Survey & A Call to Action: Rebuilding Main Street in the Village of East Harlem

2007-2009: Mount Sinai Medical Center Tower

As an extension of A Community View, this planning study of East 125th Street compiled up-to-date land use, zoning and transportation information and recommended a planning framework for the area.

As part of this ambitious undertaking, CIVITAS conducted a land use survey of East Harlem commercial corridors. This was followed by A Call to Action: Rebuilding Main Street in the Village of East Harlem. Based on survey findings and analysis, this study became a wake up call to rehabilitate and use existing residential lots in corridors to revitalize the area. Roundtable discussions with stakeholders explored ways to develop vacant lots in East Harlem.

CIVITAS led a coalition of neighbors and community groups to urge denial of permits and raise public awareness regarding Mount Sinai Medical Centers proposed research lab and 540-foot residential tower to loom over Central Park. The NYC Board of Standards and Appeals approved the variances in 2008. Under construction, the mid-block tower is the tallest north of 60th Street.

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1984-1989: 108 East 96th Street

The East 96th Street study led to the discovery of illegal construction at 108 East 96th Street. A protracted legal battle lasting five years followed. In the end, the twelve non-permitted stories were removed.

2000-Ongoing: Rezoning of East Harlem

CIVITAS organized community efforts and outreach to achieve contextual zoning for 52 blocks in East Harlem. CIVITAS is continuing this effort with the current rezoning of Lexington, Madison, and Park Avenues (115-132nd Streets).

2008-Ongoing: Second Avenue Subway

CIVITAS hired BFJ Planning to prepare A Review of Entrances and Ancillary Buildings of the Second Avenue Subway to propose alternatives to mid-block subway entrances and improvements to mechanical and ventilation ancillary building design.

1993: Simulation Center

As part of the No More Tall Stories initiative, CIVITAS commissioned The New Schools Simulation Center to model different zoning scenarios from the NYC Dept. of City Planning, Real Estate Board of NY, and Oculus. Zoning was amended on the Upper East Side and other areas of Manhattan. New buildings would not exceed 35 stories, the street wall would match the other buildings and affordable housing was encouraged instead of plaza bonuses. 16

1993: A Community View

The study of Upper Madison Avenue, 94th-125th Streets, examined the sociological effect of storefronts versus blank walls and vacant lots. Sociological consultants designed a survey for local youth to interview the community to determine what they viewed as priority problems in their area.

2000: East 125th Street Enhancement Study

The study by planner Geoffrey Roesch includes recommendations for more trees, an improved streetscape, access to the waterfront and a pedestrian bridge to the Randalls Island sports complex.

2011-Ongoing: East River Esplanade

CIVITAS organized the Reimagining the Waterfront ideas competition that received international attention. The top eight designs were selected by a professional jury and exhibited in a 2012 exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. CIVITAS is focusing on developing plans with the community to improve this important neighborhood park. 17