Credits
This website is based on the exhibition America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of the New York, May 5 to October, 2010, at the Museum of the City of New York and on the companion book of the same name, edited by Sam Roberts and published by Columbia University Press and the Museum of the City of New York. Valuable content was also provided by WNET.org, from their documentary, The Lindsay Years, which is part of this multi-part project to reconsider the tenure of John V. Lindsay.
FUNDERS
Margaret Lindsay and Michael Picotte
Robert D. Lindsay
Robert V. Lindsay
Bloomberg
The David Berg Foundation
Jeffrey Katzenberg
The George Lindsay Family
Sunny and Dick Aurelio
Furthermore: a program of The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Ed Hamilton
Sandy and Linda Lindenbaum
The New York Community Trust
Bob Price
The Howard Samuels Family
Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
Pollock and Arthur Spiegel
The William S. Paley Foundation
John Zuccotti
Anonymous
Carter Bales
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Don Elliott
David L. Garth
Roy Goodman
James Kagen
Eugene Keilin and Joanne Witty
Wynn Kramarsky
Joan and Leonard Leiman
The Leonard Friedland
Charitable Foundation/
Sid Davidoff and Robert J. Malito
Norman and Tina Levy
Stephen McDonald
Charles Moerdler
Fran and Fred Nathan
Victor Palmieri
Hal and Judy Prince
Norman Redlich
Bob Sweet
Cynthia C. Wainwright
Robert Wilmers
Herb Sturz
Gina Sharpe
Herb Elish and Eloise Hirsh
Lyndsay Howard
Katharine Lindsay Lake
Ken Patton
Martha Wallau
Bill Bardel
Alex Cooper
Robert and Marti Dinerstein
Lew Feldstein
Lew Frankfort
Marilyn Friedman
Robert and Amy Heller
Lew Kaden
Christopher Kennan
John Koskinen
Jay L. Kriegel/
The Tides Foundation
Edgar Lampert
Nathan Leventhal
Robert J. Newman
Chuck Ortner
Jaque Robertson
Marilyn Shapiro
Joan Tilney
Peter Tufo
Samuel Berger
Stan Brezenoff
Steven and Cynthia Brill
Peggy Cooper and Gordon J. Davis
Paul Elston
Steven Isenberg
Michael J. Lazar
Bill Roskin
Querube Arias
Jane L. Havemeyer
John Keker
Stan Litow
William Miller and Lynn McGuire
Basil A. Paterson
Mitchell Rosenthal
Lester Shulklapper
Franklin Thomas
Harriet Higgins Warren
Stephen R. Aiello
Judith Areen
Mimi Barker
Carol Bellamy
Norborne Berkeley Jr.
Tonio Burgos
Leonard Chazen
Ann and Elias Clark
Brian Conboy
Rick Cotton
Evan A. Davis
Perry Davis
William Diamond
Murray and Mary Drabkin
Douglas S. Eakeley
June Margolin Eisland
Ethan Eldon
Ronnie Eldridge
Robert Esnard
Justin Feldman
Susan B. Fisher
Joy Manhoff and Stanley Flink
Joseph Forstadt
Philip B. George
Patsy Glazer
Peter Goldmark
Michael Goldstein
Betsy Gotbaum
Herb Halberg
Robert Hazen
Stephen Heard
Susan Heilbron and Andrew Goldman
Marian S. Heiskell
Michael S. Helfer
George Hirsch
Elizabeth Holtzman
Anthony Japha
Vernon Jordan
William Josephson
George Kalkines
Allan Kennedy
Andrew Kerr
Arthur Klebanoff
Jerome Kretchmer
Michael Lacher
Philip Allen Lacovara
Dale M. Landi
Lance Liebman
Linda Lynn in memory of Ted Lynn
William Maloney
Teddy and Peggy Mastroianni
Ronay and Richard L. Menschel
James and Wendy Mnookin
Milton Mollen
Charles Morris
Jason R. Nathan
James Nespole
Elizabeth B. Patterson
Peter Piscitelli
Charles Raymond
Fergus Reid
Suzie Rentschler
Alice Richmond
Gilbert A. Robinson
Laura Ross
Jerold Ruderman
Bob Ruskin
Heather and Jim Ruth
Stephen Salup
Norman Samnick
Marvin Schick
Julia C. Schieffelin
Anthony and Marion Scotto
Robert Selsam
Robert Shrum
Alan M. and Carol Silberstein
Joel Silver
Hildy Simmons
Ann Brownell Sloane
Anthony Smith
Micho Spring
Peter Stangl
Norman Steisel
Thomas D. “Toby” Thacher
Katrina Thomas
Carlisle Towery
Carl Weisbrod
Alan Wiener
Joan and Peter Wynn
Joanne Jablow Yunich
In addition to those listed above, the Museum is most grateful to the 131 additional donors whose gifts of up to $1,000 also helped to make the project possible.
Important in-kind contributions have been gratefully received from the Daily News and the New York Times.
Additionally, the following donors supported Fun City Revisited: The Lindsay Years, a documentary produced by THIRTEEN for WNET.org: Arthur Ross Foundation, The David Berg Foundation, The Bodman Foundation, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, West Ferry Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., ABNY Foundation, Marlene Brody, Meyer S. and Florence H. Frucher, Goldman Family Foundation, Gordon C. Stewart, Joelson Foundation, and Ken Patton.
CONTRIBUTORS
Steven H. Jaffe
Guest Curator
Anne Lebleu
Research Assistant
Warren Wechsler
Project Consultant
WEBSITE
Conceptualization, design, and development of this site by Ducat Media LLC.
Vivian Ducat
Executive Producer
Eva Terzopoulos
Project Manager
Ana Velez
Designer/Information Architect
Alberto Ortiz Flores
Developer
Brock Pennington
Copyeditor
David Gaynes
Camera
Macy Jones
Video Editor
FOR THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Susan Henshaw Jones
Ronay Menschel Director
Sarah M. Henry
Deputy Director and Chief Curator
Autumn Nyiri
Senior Curatorial Associate
Kathleen Benson
Project Director, Exhibitions and Publications
SPECIAL THANKS
The Lindsay family–Anne Lindsay, John V. Lindsay Jr., Katharine Lindsay Lake, and Margaret Lindsay Picotte.
Jay Kriegel
Sam Roberts
The Municipal Archives
WNET.org
The Daily News and The New York Times
Requests to reproduce images from the Daily News and the New York Times may be made through their websites–www.nydailynews.com and www.nytimes.com.
HOME PAGE PHOTO
John Lindsay's charsimatic persona worked wonders when he took to the streets to campaign for mayor, here seen in his first bid for office in 1965.
Photograph by Katrina Thomas, courtesy of the photographer.