History

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is dedicated by dignitaries and Holocaust survivors including Elie Wiesel.

The Center for an Urban Future honored Steven Rubenstein and Melva Miller with the 2021 Spirit of New York Award for their work on a multi-year campaign in partnership with community-based organizations to ensure all New Yorkers were counted in the 2020 Census.

Steven Rubenstein (pictured here with Eric Adams) was named Chair of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) and the ABNY Foundation, the civic non-profit dedicated to making New York City a better place to live, work and visit.

Under the leadership of Association for a Better New York Chair Steven Rubenstein and CEO Melva Miller, ABNY led a successful multi-year campaign that brought together a coalition of government, corporate, and community-based partners to help New York fight for a fair and accurate 2020 Census count. Their efforts helped New York achieve a count that far exceeded expectations despite the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and a hostile administration in Washington, saving a seat in Congress and ensuring billions in additional federal dollars that will benefit New Yorkers in the decade to come.

Russian billionaire and Internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner, and Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and Cambridge University professor atop One World Trade Center in New York City before the “Breakthrough” press event unveiling a plan to develop tiny robotic probe “nanocrafts” that could travel to stars outside the solar system.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller receives the endorsement of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association during his 1970 gubernatorial campaign. Left to right: John DeLury (President, Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association), Louis J. Lefkowitz (New York Attorney General), Governor Rockefeller, and Howard Rubenstein.

Visitors mill about the deck of the newly opened The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum at Pier 86, West 46th Street. As the New York Times reported in 1982, the decommissioned aircraft carrier was “[r]escued from a scrapyard and refitted at a cost of $22 million… [it] is expected to attract 1.4 million visitors in its first year as a floating museum.”

Actress Hilary Swank, professor Helen Hobbs and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on November 8, 2015 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Over $21 million in prize money was distributed to scientists and mathematicians in the Silicon Valley initiative founded by Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. As the Breakthrough Prize website notes: “Since its inception in 2012, the Breakthrough Prize has awarded close to $200 million to honor paradigm-shifting research in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics.”

Michelle Obama at the 2016 commencement of City College of New York, the senior college of the City University of New York system. In her commencement address to the 3,848 graduates the First Lady said: “Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out because we know that our greatness has always depended on contributions from people who were born elsewhere but sought out this country and made it their home.”