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03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
02/23/2013 - "I Have A Voice" fundraiser for Gigi's PLAYHOUSE
02/23/2013 - Eleventh Annual “Thanksgiving in February” Feeds over 500 of New York’s Needy
02/21/2013 - The French Heritage Society's Annual Palm Beach Gala Dinner
02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
02/21/2013 - Eva Longoria Hosts Benefit for “Food Chains” Documentary - Exposes Exploitation in Am’s Farm Labor
02/13/2013 - Verdura hosts a fundraiser for“The Michael Feinstein American Songbook Initiative”
02/13/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, a benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/08/2013 - 56th Annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach
02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/06/2013 - All Star Orchestra’s Preview Screening of their New Classical Music and On-line Education Television
01/29/2013 - Urban Greenwalk
01/23/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Fourth Charity Wine Auction
01/20/2013 - Budapest Festival Orchestra
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17th Annual �Living Landmarks Celebration�
11/03/2010 - By New York, NY

17th Annual �Living Landmarks Celebration�

On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, The New York Landmarks Conservancy President, Peg Breen, and Conservancy Board Chair, Stuart Siegel, hosted the 17th Annual �Living Landmarks Celebration� at The Plaza Hotel at Fifth Avenue, New York City.

This year�s �living landmarks� were Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief and restauranteur Graydon Carter; real estate developer and Silverstein Properties owner Larry Silverstein; the noted actor, author, producer, feminist and philanthropist Marlo Thomas and national talk show icon Phil Donahue; Loews Hotels Chairman and CEO Jonathan M. Tisch; acclaimed interior designer Bunny Williams; and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Director Howard Dodson who received the Lew Rudin Living Landmark Award for Public Service(biographies attached.)
The event raised just over $800,000, a twenty percent increase from 2009 final tally of $640,000. Landmark Liz Smith co-chaired the event along with Landmark Pete Peterson. Music was provided by Landmark Peter Duchin and his Orchestra. Over 400 guests attended.

The gala kicked off with cocktails at 7:00pm followed by dinner and an awards presentation. As she does every year at this event, Liz Smith commenced the awards ceremony singing a catchy tune inspired by today news and newsmakers. Throughout the evening with her wit and charm Ms. Smith reinforced the importance of preservation, saving the city through the good works of The New York Landmarks Conservancy.

Attendees included: author Fran Lebowitz, Sirio Maccioni, Jeff Zucker, Lesley Stahl, Elizabeth Peabody, Frank Sciame, Louise Grunwald, Joan Ganz Cooney and Pete Peterson, Dr. Mathilde Krim, Joni Evans, Bob Perkins, Aaron Latham, Alexa Hampton, Linda and Sandy Lindenbaum, Marian Heiskell, and Francine du Plessix Gray,
*current Living Landmarks

Photos By: Ben Gebbe/Patrick McMullan


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