A TOP-NOTCH FUNDRAISER

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CHARITY LIST Mary Cooper is a fundraiser extraordinaire. As volunteer development manager for the New York Junior League, she has been the group’s top fundraiser for the past three years. “My mother got me started when I was young,” Cooper said. “I know that I have privileges that other people don’t, so I just
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GRATIFIED BY GIVING

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CHARITY LIST “Care giving is not always easy, and anyone who works in a long-term care environment does find the work exhausting,” said Pat Bielman, who works with Deirdre Downes. But if Downes is exhausted by her work as an advocate and social worker for aging adults, she certainly doesn’t show it. When asked
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ELDERLY SHOWGIRLS AND AGING ARTISTS

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CHARITY LIST For the last 19 years, Laura Radensky has dedicated her days to caring and advocating for senior citizens living on the Upper West Side. A busy mother of four, Radensky joined the staff of the Jewish Home Lifecare years ago as a homecare social worker after earning her degree at Columbia University’s
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BEYOND A BUILDING, INTO THE COMMUNITY

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CHARITY LIST In 1986, John Engel made a fateful decision to join a law firm with a focus on estate planning. It wasn’t just a big professional move. As the ensuing years would prove, it was an important choice that made a difference for both one lawyer and one organization representing thousands of senior
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GUIDING FORDHAM’S FUTURE

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CLERGY To more than 8,000 students and many faculty members, the West 60th to 62nd Street area is a base of operations for those who filter through Fordham University’s Manhattan campus every day. To most Upper West Siders, though, Fordham’s outpost between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues is an obscured outcropping of academia tucked to
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A WEST SIDE BLOCK AND BEYOND

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CLERGY Most synagogues can be categorized by the makeup of their congregation. But with a constituency as diverse as that at Ohab Zedek, Rabbi Allen Schwartz must fill many different roles. In his 20 years leading the Upper West Side congregation, Schwartz has proven an effective teacher, administrator, social activist, community organizer and sanitation
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A REGAL ACTIVIST

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

COMMUNITY BUILDERS As National Director for Equal Employment Opportunity at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Joyce S. Johnson was nicknamed “Duchess” for her manner and style. “We were out there in Las Vegas with the sales folks and the bigwigs. You know, it’s the liquor industry,” she laughed, “and I guess they saw me as
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A TOP TENANT LEADER

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

COMMUNITY BUILDERS Margarita Curet moved to Amsterdam Houses in 1960, so if anyone knows and loves the cluster of 24 buildings between 61st and 64th streets at Amsterdam Avenue, she does. When Curet arrived 48 years ago, two of her children were very small; another two were born at Amsterdam. Though all four have grown
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CREATIVE COMMUNITY THINKING

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

COMMUNITY BUILDERS Helen Rosenthal says her mission has been to put the “community” back in the community board. It was community outreach that made her former job, overseeing health care budgets under Mayors Koch, Dinkins and Guiliani, come alive. “What made it real was going to individual hospitals,” she said, “seeing their working conditions and
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THE JAZZ MAN

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Special Sections, WESTYS

THE CULTURE CLUB Wynton Marsalis may have been raised in New Orleans, but his heart is now firmly rooted in New York. An Upper West Sider since he came to study music at The Juilliard School three decades ago, Marsalis has become a giant of the music world and the leading public figure of jazz.
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