The New Jewish Home Celebrates 8 Remarkable New Yorkers Over 80 - Mayor Dinkins
At its fifth annual Eight Over Eighty benefit gala, The New Jewish Home will pay tribute to eight New Yorkers who, in their ninth and tenth decades, continue to live lives of remarkable achievement, vitality, and civic engagement. The event, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Monday, March 12, raises funds to support The New Jewish Home, one of the nation's largest and most diversified nonprofit geriatric rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and home health care programs, which together serves 12,000 older adults of all faiths and ethnicities each year. Over 450 business and philanthropic leaders, influencers, healthcare and eldercare advocates, and cultural patrons are expected to attend the event, which is projected to raise $1.5 million.
The honorees, each of whom will be celebrated in a video vignette, are entertainment legend Clive Davis (age 85), renowned journalist Marilyn Berger (age 82), political trailblazer David Dinkins (age 90), philanthropy stalwart Elizabeth McCormack (age 96), academia visionary Vartan Gregorian (age 83), nonprofit luminary Stephen Solender (age 80), and finance leaders Roy Zuckerberg (age 82) and John G. Heimann (age 88). These men and women, the best of the best in their individual fields, continue to show the world that trailblazing is ageless.
Here is the testimonial for Mayor Dinkins:
David Norman Dinkins served as NYS Assemblyman, President of the NYC Board of Elections, City Clerk and Manhattan Borough President before being elected 106th Mayor of the City of New York in 1989. As the first (and only) African American Mayor of NYC, major successes of note under his administration include: “Safe Streets, Safe City: Cops and Kids”; the revitalization of Times Square as we have come to know it; an unprecedented agreement keeping the US Open Tennis Championships in New York City for 99 years – a contract that continues to bring more financial influx to New York City than the Yankees, Mets, Knicks and Rangers COMBINED – comparable to having the Super Bowl in New York for two weeks every year! The Dinkins administration also created Fashion Week, Restaurant Week, and Broadway on Broadway, which have all continued to thrive for decades, attracting international attention and tremendous revenue to the city each year. Mayor Dinkins joined Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) as a Professor in the Practice of Urban Public Policy in 1994. He has hosted the David N. Dinkins Leadership & Public Policy Forum for 20 years which welcomed Congressman John Lewis as Keynote Speaker in 2017. 2015 was a notable year for Mayor Dinkins: the landmarked, Centre Street hub of New York City Government was renamed as the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building; the David N. Dinkins Professorship Chair in the Practice of Urban & Public Affairs at SIPA (which was established in 2003) announced its inaugural professor, Michael A Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia; and the Columbia University Libraries and Rare Books opened the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project. Mayor Dinkins is an active participant on numerous organizational boards – with his primary focus on youth, he also maintains regular engagements as a featured speaker or award recipient around the country. In 2013, Mayor Dinkins became a first time author when, A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, was published. A memoir which chronicles the life of this devoted public servant as a New Yorker who remains in love with his city. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 10, 1927, David Dinkins graduated with honors from Howard University in 1950 with a B.S. in mathematics and an LLB from Brooklyn Law School in 1956. He is a recipient of The Congressional Gold Medal for his service as a Montford Point Marine in the United States Marine Corps, during World War II. David N. Dinkins resides in New York City with his wife of 63 years, Joyce Burrows Dinkins.
Here are links to the 8 over 80 event and Broadway World article.
The honorees, each of whom will be celebrated in a video vignette, are entertainment legend Clive Davis (age 85), renowned journalist Marilyn Berger (age 82), political trailblazer David Dinkins (age 90), philanthropy stalwart Elizabeth McCormack (age 96), academia visionary Vartan Gregorian (age 83), nonprofit luminary Stephen Solender (age 80), and finance leaders Roy Zuckerberg (age 82) and John G. Heimann (age 88). These men and women, the best of the best in their individual fields, continue to show the world that trailblazing is ageless.
Here is the testimonial for Mayor Dinkins:
David Norman Dinkins served as NYS Assemblyman, President of the NYC Board of Elections, City Clerk and Manhattan Borough President before being elected 106th Mayor of the City of New York in 1989. As the first (and only) African American Mayor of NYC, major successes of note under his administration include: “Safe Streets, Safe City: Cops and Kids”; the revitalization of Times Square as we have come to know it; an unprecedented agreement keeping the US Open Tennis Championships in New York City for 99 years – a contract that continues to bring more financial influx to New York City than the Yankees, Mets, Knicks and Rangers COMBINED – comparable to having the Super Bowl in New York for two weeks every year! The Dinkins administration also created Fashion Week, Restaurant Week, and Broadway on Broadway, which have all continued to thrive for decades, attracting international attention and tremendous revenue to the city each year. Mayor Dinkins joined Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) as a Professor in the Practice of Urban Public Policy in 1994. He has hosted the David N. Dinkins Leadership & Public Policy Forum for 20 years which welcomed Congressman John Lewis as Keynote Speaker in 2017. 2015 was a notable year for Mayor Dinkins: the landmarked, Centre Street hub of New York City Government was renamed as the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building; the David N. Dinkins Professorship Chair in the Practice of Urban & Public Affairs at SIPA (which was established in 2003) announced its inaugural professor, Michael A Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia; and the Columbia University Libraries and Rare Books opened the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project. Mayor Dinkins is an active participant on numerous organizational boards – with his primary focus on youth, he also maintains regular engagements as a featured speaker or award recipient around the country. In 2013, Mayor Dinkins became a first time author when, A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, was published. A memoir which chronicles the life of this devoted public servant as a New Yorker who remains in love with his city. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 10, 1927, David Dinkins graduated with honors from Howard University in 1950 with a B.S. in mathematics and an LLB from Brooklyn Law School in 1956. He is a recipient of The Congressional Gold Medal for his service as a Montford Point Marine in the United States Marine Corps, during World War II. David N. Dinkins resides in New York City with his wife of 63 years, Joyce Burrows Dinkins.
Here are links to the 8 over 80 event and Broadway World article.
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