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NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT

WWW.NYRP.ORG

2014 ANNUAL REPORT

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TABLE OFCONTENTS

02 COMMUNITY GARDENS

08 UNDER-RESOURCED PARKS

14 MILLIONTREESNYC

20 2015 AND BEYOND

22 NYRP AND

CONSOLIDATED ENTITIES

24 2014

DONOR LIST

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COMMUNITY GARDENS

We’re building stronger communities by improving access to high-quality, public space.

RENOVATION SPOTLIGHT

La Casita Community Garden

Mott Haven in the South Bronx is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in New York City with a population of about 50,000 people per square mile. East Harlem in Manhattan contains the highest geographical concentration of low income public housing projects in the United States. Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn suffers some of the highest rates of crime in the city.

In response to a discussion on inequality in New York City, former NYC Deputy Mayor of Economic Development and former CEO of Bloomberg LP, Dan Doctoroff said “The best equalizers are access to healthcare, access to green space, and access to nutritious food.”

At New York Restoration Project, we restore and revitalize open space in the city’s most densely populated and least green neighborhoods. After acquiring 52 community gardens in 1999, we’ve steadily restored more than half of them. In 2014 NYRP launched a capital campaign to raise funds for the complete design and renovation of the remaining 23 gardens.

Our gardens provide a safe space for children to play, for families to gather, for neighbors to connect. We’re building stronger communities by improving access to high-quality, public space. We help integrate the spaces into daily life by hosting free programs, events and workshops that bring neighbors together and help families spend time outdoors. In 2014, NYRP hosted 118 events for over 2,000 participants, from free health and wellness programs like outdoor yoga to educational workshops like gardening, composting and urban chicken keeping. We further expanded our partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, bringing dozens of high-quality art, music and dance programs into the city’s most underserved neighborhoods.

Our hands-on education program, Garden Growers—launched in 2013—was expanded to six NYRP gardens in 2014 in Bronx, Brooklyn

COMMUNITY GARDENS 03

BEFORE

AFTER

Location223 East 119th St.EAST HARLEM, MANHATTAN

Size2,523 sq. ft.

Renovations

• raised, round stage

• two garden beds for storage

• new grill and picnic tables

• shaded seating area

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and Manhattan. Within easy walking distance of elementary schools, teachers commit to bringing their classes out throughout the spring or fall growing seasons to complete a series of lessons and to tend to a garden bed. Over 500 young students from eleven schools, grades K-6, participated. By providing hands-on learning in our community gardens to students who reside in the surrounding neighborhood, we are teaching essential skills while instilling the values of long-term care and stewardship.

NYRP’s ability to work on our own land also provides the unique opportunity to pilot innovative new strategies for sustainability and green infrastructure. The collaborative restoration of Willis Avenue Community Garden in Mott Haven, Bronx, is a shining example. Alongside the Urban Air Foundation, TEN Arquitectos, and Buro Happold, we designed and implemented a one-of-a-kind, modular structure that, much like Lego blocks, can be assembled in different ways to suit different needs; at Willis Avenue, we built the structure to act as a casita, a type of structure favored by Hispanic and Latin-American gardeners. Elsewhere, they might make a gazebo, a shed, or a kiosk. The casita was designed to include a roof to provide shade and weather protection, collect water, and support photovoltaic solar panels—the potential for broad applications in New York City and beyond are considerable.

Meanwhile, we are giving non-NYRP-owned gardens ways to access NYRP’s resources and expertise through our Gardens for the City program. Recognizing that many community gardens do not have the centralized resources of NYRP, we created Gardens for the City to help dedicated gardeners in spaces other than our own. In 2014, seven garden groups received training, materials, and site improvements through the program. We built raised planting beds for community gardens in places like New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing properties including Ingersoll Houses and Marcy Houses. We also donated materials like shrubs, planters, lumber and more to nine other community spaces including public schools and community centers.

WORKSHOPS FOR COMMUNITY GARDEN GROUPS

GARDEN-HOSTED EVENTS

COMPOSTING & PRUNING

CITY CHICKEN INSTITUTE

GARDEN GROOVES CONCERT

SUMMERMOVIE NIGHT

29 of 52 GARDENS RENOVATED

EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

ON URBAN AGRICULTURE

YOGA CLASSES

By providing hands-on learning in our community gardens to students who reside in the surroundingneighborhood, we are teaching essential skills while instilling the values of long-term care and stewardship.

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Gil Hodges Community Garden

Willis Avenue Community Garden

RENOVATION SPOTLIGHT

BEFORE

< AFTER

COMMUNITY GARDENS 07

Location378 Willis AvenueMOTT HAVEN, BRONX

Size9,063 sq. ft

Renovations• a casita designed by TEN Arquitectos

• compost toilet

• raised beds for vegetablegardening

• mulched picnic area

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UNDER-RESOURCEDPARKS

After years of work in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, we’ve completely transformed open space in the northernmost reaches of Manhattan.

PARK SPOTLIGHT

Swindler Cove

AFTER

Location3703 Harlem River DriveINWOOD/WASHINGTON HEIGHTS,

MANHATTAN

Size2,700 sq. ft.

Renovations

• removed tons of garbage,rusted out cars, sunken boats and construction debris (previously an illegal dumping ground)

• wetland restoration

• Riley-Levin Children’s Garden

• Birdhouses and habitats

Our story begins with trash—appalling mounds of dirty, dangerous trash. Since 1995, NYRP has cleaned up 2,400 tons of garbage from public spaces, and over the last few years, we’ve diverted nearly 100 tons of waste into compost.

In the 1990’s, neglect and illegal dumping rendered the public parks of upper Manhattan practically unusable. Yet today, after years of work in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks, we’ve completely transformed open spaces in the northernmost reaches of Manhattan. We helped rehabilitate Fort Washington Park and Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. Today, NYRP serves as the manager for Highbridge Park and neighboring Sherman Creek Park.

Cynthia Vargas, educator at PS 5 and lifelong resident of Washington Heights, can attest to the changes in her neighborhood, “The work here wasn’t just about cleaning up a park. Every year that the park improved, made us, as a community, feel valued. And in return, I’ve watched as people have become more engaged, not only with the environment, but with each other too.”

Home of New York City’s most vibrant natural forests, Highbridge and Sherman Creek Parks serve as the destination for field trips through NYRP’s “Nature in My Neighborhood” program for public school students. Nature in My Neighborhood is the umbrella for five unique, 1.5 hour length environmental education programs centered on the urban forest and aquatic ecology. The curricula, activities and events for educators, students and youth groups are geared towards empowering urban youth and communities to identify, create and care for nature in their neighborhood. Last year alone, Nature in My Neighborhood provided outdoor education programming to over 2,100 students at Sherman Creek Park, primarily to children 11 years old and under.

The multi-faceted Sherman Creek Park is home to Swindler Cove, the Riley-Levin Children’s Garden, and NYRP’s Peter Jay Sharp

UNDER-RESOURCED PARKS 09

BEFORE

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2014 PARK PROGRAMMING

GUIDED NATURE WALKS

OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER

LEARN-TO-ROW ACTIVITIES

boathouse, where our partner Row New York offers free or low-cost professional-caliber competitive rowing for local kids, floats just offshore. The park offers a unique mix of habitats, making it a popular spot for students to see and touch the things they’re learning about in the classroom.

NYRP has invested some $15 million in the project of converting Sherman Creek Park from a de facto dumping ground into a unique and accessible slice of public parkland. That project continues with the construction of a new public space on the water to the north of the existing park, on a site that formerly hosted boathouses and, later, decades of accumulated detritus. The restored site will feature an environmental education pavilion and boat storage facility, returning waterfront access to the Washington Heights/Inwood community. It’s an exciting opportunity that reflects the dynamism of the park itself, and the flowering of the upper Manhattan neighborhood around Dyckman Street that for so long lacked the variety of high-quality outdoor spaces enjoyed elsewhere in the city.

RIGHT TOP AND BOTTOM: Sherman Creek’s Cherry Trees

NYRP’s Nature in My Neighborhood in the Riley-Levin

Children’s Garden at Sherman Creek Park

SHERMAN CREEK PARK RESTORATION FORECAST

NEW PUBLIC SPACE

ACCUMULATED DETRITUS

WATERFRONT PARK

PETER JAY SHARP BOATHOUSE

EDUCATION PAVILION

Last year alone, Nature in My Neighborhood provided outdoor education programming to over 2,100 students at Sherman Creek Park.

SWINDLER COVE

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Gil Hodges Community Garden

Sherman Creek Park

RENOVATION SPOTLIGHT

LocationHarlem River Drive & Dyckman Street NEW YORK, NY

Size15 acres (217,800 sq ft.)

Renovations

• Swindler Cove

• Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse

• Sherman Creek Center,NYRP’s construction of an all-purpose environmental education facility

UNDER-RESOURCED PARKS 13

BEFORE

< AFTER

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If you can’t picture a million trees, picture nine New Yorkers. By the end of 2015, MillionTreesNYC will have planted one tree for every nine city residents - everyone in Manhattan, everyone in the Bronx, everyone in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

If you can’t picture a million trees, picture nine New Yorkers. By the end of 2015, MillionTreesNYC will have planted one tree for every nine city residents—everyone in Manhattan, everyone in the Bronx, everyone in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

Finding places to put a million new trees in the country’s largest urban area requires a healthy measure of creativity. Through MillionTreesNYC, we have reforested public parks, planted trees at schools, hospitals, and public housing projects, and even given trees away, free of charge—16,000 free trees in the spring and fall of 2014 to be exact. In fact, our pioneering tree giveaways have been shown to produce better outcomes in terms of survival than trees planted along streets. We arm the tree recipient with knowledge, and their enthusiasm and sense of responsibility do the rest.

While at NYRP we are constantly exploring creative new ways to implement green infrastructure, we also know that an idea doesn’t have to be on the cutting edge to be transformative.

Consider, for example, the humble tree. It’s well known that trees sequester carbon, and that living near green space makes people happier. Less appreciated, however, is the role trees play as air filters, removing airborne particles that contribute to respiratory ailments. In some cases, we just have to remember the things our ancestors have known for generations, like the beneficial effect a properly-placed shade tree can have on a building’s energy use in summer by simply shading the structure—or in winter, when a botanical windbreak can keep a building warmer.

By the end of 2014, alongside our partners at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, we planted over 930,000 trees, with plans outlined for thousands more in 2015.

MILLIONTREESNYC

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When we started in 2007, MillionTreesNYC was expected to take ten years to finish. But by incorporating lessons learned from experience, such as the extraordinary success of our pioneering tree giveaways, we are on course to finish two years early in 2015, all while saving millions of dollars off the original budget. But the end of MillionTreesNYC won’t be the end of NYRP’s tree planting efforts. We look forward to applying the lessons of MillionTreesNYC and the relationships we’ve built across New York City to maintain and improve the urban canopy.

930,000+

MILLIONTREESNYCTREES PLANTED:

MILLIONTREESNYC PLANTINGS

SCHOOLS

PUBLIC PARKS

PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS

HOSPITALS

TREE GIVEAWAYS

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Gil Hodges Community GardenNYCHA WoodsideHouses

MILLIONTREESNYC SPOTLIGHT

LocationWoodside NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY

(NYCHA) WOODSIDE HOUSES

WOODSIDE, QUEENS

Size22.3 acres

Renovations

• 250 volunteers planted100 trees

MILLIONTREESNYC 19

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2015AND BEYOND

With the right care and a little luck, our gardens, parks, and trees will outlive all of us. So too will the positive impacts of our work, as quality-of-life improvements compound for future generations.

With the right care, our gardens, parks, and trees will outlive all of us. So too will the positive impacts of our work, as quality-of-life improvements compound for future generations. While these improvements are real and significant, they are hard to quantify.

With this in mind, NYRP has launched an ambitious multi-year project: The Haven Project. This project calls for unprecedented investments in the South Bronx. NYRP will commit to transforming a network of green spaces in Mott Haven and Port Morris while activating these spaces with community-centered programming. While we do this, we’ll be working with leading experts in public health and social welfare to measure changes in a broad range of quality-of-life indicators.

Located just north of Randall’s Island on the Bronx’s southernmost peninsula, Mott Haven and Port Morris bear the brunt of housing some of the city’s largest industries and highway infrastructure, resulting in poor environmental health outcomes such as asthma and obesity. As part of the poorest congressional district in the country, Mott Haven and Port Morris contain under-resourced parks and open spaces and a high concentration of public housing facilities, leaving a lot of room for improvement and growth—which is where we plan to step in.

Working alongside a cross section of public and private partners, The Haven Project has the potential to transform our very thinking around how cities are, and should be, built.

RIGHT TOP AND BOTTOM: Before and after renderings of The Haven Project.

Credit: RIGHT TOP AND BOTTOM: Civatas

LEFT: Emily Kinsolving20 NYRP 2014 ANNUAL REPORT

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NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES

Year EndedSeptember 30, 2014

PROGRAM SERVICES SUPPORTING SERVICES

Gardens Parks Trees Other Total Program Services Management and General Fundraising Total Expenses

Payroll and benefits $1,425,417 $827,761 $696,751 $35,958 $2,985,887 $709,036 $666,832 $4,355,755

Materials and supplies $238,969 $105,140 $468,790 $9,120 $822,019 $32,159 $19,241 $873,419

Professional fees $363,641 $882,634 $496,574 $12,763 $1,755,612 $205,446 $338,321 $2,299,379

Office expenses $190,549 $161,666 $131,623 - $483,838 $140,646 $287,704 $912,188

Occupancy $89,356 $36,682 $33,152 - $159,190 $35,167 $26,586 $220,943

Interest $119 - - - $119 $2,235 - $2,354

Depreciation and amortization $134,259 $325,864 $27,146 - $487,269 $13,921 $31,370 $532,560

TOTAL $2,442,310 $2,339,747 $1,854,036 $57,841 $6,693,934 $1,132,610 $1,370,054 $9,196,598

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $18,393,169

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$250,000+Bloomberg

City Parks Foundation

James S. & James L. Knight

Foundation

Thompson Family Foundation

North Star Fund Inc.

TD Bank Group

Toyota

$100,000 – $249,999Linda Allard

American Express

The Coco-Cola Foundation

JetBlue AirwaysFoundation

Bette Midler and Martin vonHaselberg

Con Edison

Doris Duke Charitable

Foundation

Michael Kors & Lance Le Pere

Target

Nancy & Fred Poses

Katharine & William Rayner

The Rockefeller Foundation

$25,000 – $99,999Charina Endowment Fund Inc.

Steven & Alexandra Cohen

Foundation

Todd DeGamo

The Estee Lauder Companies

Inc.

Elliot Friman

Amy Goldman Fowler & Cary

Fowler

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Idol Family Foundation

Ellen & Richard Levine

Sarah Nash & Michael

Sylvester

Kathy & Ben Needell

Skadden, Arps, Slate,

Meagher & Flom LLP

Darcy Stacom, CBRE, Inc.

The Geraldine Stutz Trust, Inc.

Tishman Speyer - Katherine

Farley & Jerry Speyer

Elaine Wynn

Ann Ziff

David James Barger

George D. Malkemus III,

Manolo Blahnik USA

Ellen & Steven Corwin

The Durst Organization

Mica Erteguin

Joan Ganz Cooney & Peter G.

Peterson

The David Geffen Foundation

Marcia & John Goldman

Tim Gunn

Dotti Herman, Douglas

Elliman

Edmund Hollander

Elton John Charitable Fund

McGraw Hill Foundation

James L. Nederlander &

Margo MacNabb

Nederlander

Patricia Salas Pineda

Pam & Allen B. SwerdlickThe Walt Disney Company

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Ann & Andrew Tisch

$10,000 – 24,999Judy & John Angelo

Avenue of Americas

Association

Ruth & Louis Brause

Diane and Clyde Brownstone

Richard Gray and RobertaCampbell

City Realty

Citi

Glen Close & David Shaw

CodeGreen Solutions

Katie Couric

Creative Artists Agency

Diane Von Furstenberg andBarry Diller

Alisa & Daniel Doctoroff

Edelman

Mitzi & Warren Eisenberg

Evercore Wealth Management

Olivia & Adam Flatto

Abraham & Mildred Goldstein

Charitable Trust

Yuval Greenblatt & Daniel

Segal, Douclas Elliman

IAC

Jean Jacobson

The Rona Jaffe Foundation

Jonathan LaPook and Kate

Lear

KNOLL

Jurate Kazickas & Roger

Altman

The Ralph and Ricky Lauren

Family Foundation

The Malkin Fund, Inc.

Margaret & Daniel Loeb -

Third Point Foundation

The Malkin Fund, Inc.

Ana Martiny

Shelly & Neil Mitchell

New York Post

Newman’s Own Foundation

Elizabeth T. Peabody

Ellen Hanson & Richard

Perlman

REI

The Rosenthal Fund

Daryl & Steven Roth

Jeff Rothstein & John

Lawrence, Douglas Elliman

The Peter Jay Sharp

Foundation

The Shubert Organization,

Inc.

Marilyn & Jim Simons

SL Green Realty Corp

Ted & Vada Stanley

Stephanie J. Steifel & Robert

S. Cohen

The Dorothy Streslin

Foundation - Enid Nemy

John Studzinski, CBE

Tiger Baron Foundation, Inc.

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

UBS

Anne & Sheldon Vogel

Jann Wenner & Matte Nye

Andrea Woodner

William D. and Deborah MillerZabel

$1,000 – $9,999Park Avenue Building

Supplies - Erminia Rivera

LLC

Barbara Ann Abeles

Fred Alger & Company,

Incorporated

Aliza Family Foundation

Alliance for Community Trees

Jim Aman & John Meeks

Carol & Rand April

Lovee & Bob Arum

Kate Ascher

Pamela Averick and John

Jaffe

Bade Stageberg Cox

Architects

André Balazs

Bareburger Group

Richard M. Barsam

Mercedes T. Bass

Bruce Baughman & Melanie

G. Arwin

Janet Bellusci

Candice Bergen & Marshall

Rose

Minor L. Bishop & Lenore

Schlossberg

Freya & Richard Block

Ronnie Bloom

Bloomingdale’s Fund of the

Macy’s Foundation

Jacob Bluestein Foundation

Miriam Bouret

Elizabeth Brody

Brooklyn Nets

Suzanne Buchta

Robin Green & Mitchell

Burgess

Richard Burgheim

Maggie L. Burnett

C.A.L. Foundation, Inc.

Don & Lisa Callahan

John Carroll & Peter Fifield

Judith Cascone

EcoMedia - a CBS Company

Diane M. Chesnut

Peter Christensen & Mark

Hummell

Kenneth Cole

Courtney & Christopher

Combe

Ann Conroy

Michelle Corl

Susan Courtemanche

CPL Concoria USA

Derek & Elizabeth Cribbs

Susan M. Dacks

Zillow

Larry & Jane David

Laurie David

Annette & Oscar de la Renta

Vanessa de Samame

Nancy Deering Chinn

Astrid Delafield

Christopher DesPres

Hester Diamond

William W. Donnell

Michael Douglas & Catherine

Zeta-Jones

Sussanah C. Drake

Patricia Durkan

Robert Dvorin

The Dyson Foundation

Earthshare of New York

East 117 Mazal Holdings, LLC

Gale Epstein

Diana Erbsen

Warren A. Estis

Faircom New York, Inc.

DONOR LIST — 2014

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Miriam & Thomas Farmakis

Priscilla P. Ferguson

Andrew Fickman

Ann Fisher

Fordham Landing Associates

- Diane and Andrew J.

LaSala Jr.

Maxine & Jim Frank

Amy Freitag & Cynthia Smith

Peter Friedes

Amish Mehta, Partner &

Not-for-Profit Practice

Leader,Friedman LLP

Gabelli Funds

Wilma & Arthur Gelfand

GE Capital Corporation

Richard Gess

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Gilmartin

Sandra & Laurence Gluck

Robert Goldberg

Joel Goldfarb & Elizabeth

Weinshel

Jerrold Goldman

Yuval Greenblatt & Eleni L.

Sherif

GreenOak

Greenpearl Events

Jamee & Peter Gregory

Deborah Griffin

Debbie & Allen Grubman

Geoffrey Gund

Linda Hackett

Howard E. Hallengren

Tracie Hamersley

Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks

Deborah Harry

Anneliese Harstick

Mary Hays

Hearst Corporation

William Randolph Hearst

Foundation

Abbe A. Heller

Susan & Robert Hermanos

Katherine A. Holleman

HBO

Jim Hormel & Timothy Wu

Linda & Paul Huston

Jan Sweeney & James B.

Jacobs

JCPenney

Jerry M. Feeney Residential

Real Estate Law

Johnson & Johnson

J. Brown Johnson

The Jordan Company, L.P.

Estate of Edith Jurka

Sonny Kalsi, GreenOak

The Kandell Fund

Suri Kasirer, Kasirer

Consulting

Melissa Elstein

Florence & Robert Kaufman

KBK Wealth Management

Kelco Landscaping

Julie & Walter Keller

Peter L. Kennard

Trish Kennedy

Susan Keyes & James Sulat

Stephen Knoll

Suzie & Bruce Kovner

Dr. Barbara Kravitz

Thomas Krizmanic

Louise E. Kuebler

Fordham Landing Associates

- Diane & Andrew J.

LaSala Jr.

The Lauder Foundation

William Lauder

Laura & Valier Morin Fund

Carol Leibenson

The Leibowitz & Greenway

Charitable Family Foundation

Elizabeth Lemon

Dana & Larry Linden

Scott & Melanie Little

The Litwin Foundation

Louis Vuitton North America

Pamela & Jeffrey Lovinger

Carri Lyon

Penny MacIntyre

Sam Feldman, David

Steinberg, Lary Brezner

Madeline Corporation

Arielle & Ian Madover

Mickey & Larry Magid

Lizbeth Marano

Annette Marom

Marshall Family Foundation

Agnes Marton

Kimberly McCloskey

Professor Henry McKean

Jamie L. McKnight

Rachel L. Mellon

Concetta B. Miller

Carol & Michael Miller

Sally Minard

Isaac Mizrahi

Leo Model Foundation, Inc.

Monmouth Health Care

Foundation

Mark M. Mullin

Robyn Reiss

Norinchukin Foundation

NYSE Euronext Inc.

One Kings Lane

Janice Parker & Jamie Drake

David Buskin & Jan Petrow

Nora Ephron & Nicolas Pileggi

Foundation

Rod Pleasants

Posner-Wallace Foundation

Daniel Rafinejad

Robert Ragozine

Rachael Ray

Jon Recor & Daniel Stewart

John B. Rhea

Rhino Records

Gary Richardson

Kerri & Joshua Rider

RKT&B Architecture

Robert A.M. Stern Architects,

LLP

Timothy A. Robert

The Isabel Rose Foundation

Clifford Ross

Janet C. Ross

May & Samuel Rudin Family

Foundation, Inc.

Bonnie Johnson Sacerdote

Foundation

Valerie Salembier & Paul

Block

Fernando Santangelo

Sawyer|Berson

Sanford J. Schlesinger and

Lianne Lazetera

Barbara Schultis

Phyillis & Howard Schwartz

Philathropic Fund

Laura Scott

Patricia A. Scott

Scotts Miracle-Gro

Secunda Family Foundation,

Inc.

Daniel Segal

Paul Shaffer

Steve Shane

David P. Sheehan

Robert C. Sheehan

David M. Sherman

Laura Baudo Sillerman

Larry A. & Klara Silverstein

Joshua Sirefman

Liz Smith & Iris Love

Melanie & Harold Snedcof

Donna & Richard Soloway

Debra Spector

Deborah Staab

Brynn Thayer & David

Steinberg

Marti Stevens

R. Justin & Mamie Stewart

Carl Stibolt & Elijah Vielma

James R. Stiles

Linda & Jerry Stone

John Sulpy Jr., Eldridge

Design

The Sulzberger Foundation,

Marian S. Heiskell Giving

Fund

Jay H. Tanenbaum

Brian & Linda Tauscher

The Stop Global Warming

(VMOW), a project of The

Tides Center

Todd S. Shapiro Associates

Inc.

Brian Tolman & Lisa Shannon

Robin B. Tost

Tracx

Kathleen A. Tripp

Tsunis Gasparis Lustig Ring &

Kenny LLP, John C. Tsunis

& Maria Gasparis

Michael Tuch Foundation

Tumblr, Inc.

Robert L. Turner

Tyler’s Trees

United Way of New York City

Unity Construction Group

Urban Air Foundation Limited

Brian Urkowitz

Lisa M. Utasi and Stacy

Meadows

Diane G. Van Wyck

Jay Vogel

Sophie von Haselberg

Joanne Walsh

Barbara Walters

Warner Music Group, Inc.

Susan W. Weatherley

Robert Webber & Triple

Edwards

Weeks Lerman Group

Cathy & Stephen Weinroth

Emanuel & Anna Weinstein

Foundation

WME

Susan & Robin Williams

Philip D. Wilson, Jr.

Anthony C. Wood

Robert Wuhl & Barbara

Capelli

Judy Francis Zankel

Raquel Zimmermann

Government SupportNew York City Department of

Environmental Protection

New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

New York City Department

of Youth & Community

Development

New York State Office of

Parks, Recreation &

Historic Preservation

The Office of New York CityCouncil Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito (City Council District 8)

The Office of the Honorable

Donovan Richards (City

Council District 31)

The Port Authority of New

York & New Jersey

United States Department of

Agriculture - Forest Service

2014 DONOR LIST 2726 NYRP 2014 ANNUAL REPORT

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NYRP 2013 ANNUAL REPORT NYRP 2014 ANNUAL REPORT

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NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT

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10TH FLOOR

NEW YORK, NY 10001

WWW.NYRP.ORG

TEL 212.333.2552

FAX 212.333.3886

[email protected]

BOARD OF

TRUSTEES

Bette Midler FOUNDER

Benjamin F. Needell Esq. CHAIRMAN

Ellen Levine

Darcy A. Stacom VICE PRESIDENTS

Sarah E. Nash SECRETARY AND TREASURER

Linda Allard

Dave Barger

Adrian Benepe

Ellen Crehan-Corwin

Todd DeGarmo, FAIA

Edmund D. Hollander. FASLA

Michael Kors

Patricia Salas Pineda

Maria Rodale

Charles Sussman

Jann S. Wenner

Ann Ziff

Mitchell Silver ex officio

NYRP CHAIRMAN’S

COUNCIL

Diane Brownstone

Lisa Callahan

Lisa Caputo

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Alexandra Cohen

Douglas Durst

Adam Flatto

Amy Goldman Fowler

Tim Gunn

Jacqueline Hernández

Peter Jueptner

Yoko Ono Lennon

James L. Nederlander

Margo MacNabb Nederlander

Elizabeth Peabody

Joshua Sirefman

Andrea Woodner

EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR

Deborah Marton