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DONALD H. LEVY: Sanctuary: OUR NEW Places to Restore, Refresh, and Renew DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT In the World’s Most Stressed-Out City arewell to summer, with its long, lan- part of the Asian Art Gallery. Here, within guid days, its four-day workweeks and this garden courtyard complete with gentle F vacation getaways. The season has waterfall, you can truly come back to your- turned yet again and it’s back to work, back self. And do return once again to The to reckoning time in the nanosecond-length Cloisters (at the northernmost part of Fort of New York minutes, back to the frenetic Tryon Park, (212) 923-3700), the Met’s motion of real life here in the world’s most enduring tribute to the art and architecture of stressed-out city. the Middle Ages, there to be transported to Photo: Bob Newey When the pressures of life in the Big the otherworldliness of 13th century Europe. Apple start to crowd the quietude of your Uptown, take yourself on a peaceful mind, it’s nice to know that the City That Himalayan journey at the Nicholas Roerich Donald H. Levy has been named Never Sleeps offers safe havens within its Museum (319 West 107th Street, (212) 864- Lawrence Properties Director of own boundaries — places where you can go 7752), a town house devoted to the spiritual Management effective August 17, to get centered and find yourself again. In artwork of this artist who was nominated for 1998. fact, one New Yorker, overworked and over- the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize. And down- A native New Yorker born and raised in , Mr. Levy is a stressed like the rest of us, has written a town, find placidity and beauty on the graduate of Columbia Law School, a book on this very topic. New York’s 50 Best rooftop of the Dia Center for the Arts (548 member of the New York State Bar, Places to Find Peace and Quiet by Allan West 22nd Street, (212) 989-5566), a 35,000 and holds a real estate broker’s Ishac (published by City & Company, NY), square foot building devoted to contempo- license. He brings more than three is a virtual catalogue of escape without leav- rary artists that opens its roof for sitting, for decades of residential real estate management, legal, and supervisory ing town. Below, some of Ishac’s serenity- contemplating, and for viewing. For anoth- experience to his position with filled suggestions. view of serenity far above the maddening Lawrence Properties. crowd, climb to the top of the 392 foot Bell Prior to joining our firm, Mr. Levy Retreats for the Mind and Soul Tower at Riverside Church (490 Riverside was Senior Account Executive with Insignia Residential Group, where he The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fifth Drive at 120th Street, (212) 870- 6792). Or, managed a portfolio of luxury coop- Avenue and 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710), a in the midst of your busiest midtown day, erative residences with an aggregate perennial favorite, has long offered a won- return to the composure born of introspec- annual operating budget of more than derful retreat for the mind and soul. Go for tion with a few moments of peace inside the $20 million. Mr. Levy also has the art of the ages, to be sure, but make a Gothic salvation of St. Patrick’s Cathedral served as Senior Account Executive for Manhattan Pacific Management, special point to visit the Met’s Astor Court, ( between 50th and 51st Streets, and as Vice President and (212) 753-2261), or within the pristine, all- Management Counsel of M.J. white environment of the Erol Beker Raynes, Incorporated, where he man- Chapel in St. Peter’s Church (Lexington aged a full co-op/condo portfolio, Avenue at 54th Street, (212) 935-2200). supervised the Transfer Department, In this issue… performed as sponsor representative Similar meditative tranquility can be found Sanctuary ...... 1 on a variety of boards, counseled inside The General Theological Seminary boards and accounts executives on Our New Director of Management . . . .1 (175 Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st legal issues, and negotiated and Streets, (212) 243-5150), part of the drafted the company’s management Lawrence Properties Directory ...... 2 agreements. National Historic Landmark that is the Such Interesting People ...... 3 While Mr. Levy’s professionalism Episcopal Church in Chelsea, and also with- and expertise in the field of residen- Brokerage Report ...... 4 in the Meditation Room of The Open tial management are well-known and (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 3) 1

Sanctuary (continued from page 1) Center (83 Spring Street, (212) 219-2527), Museum of Jewish Heritage, is Robert F. spa experience at La Casa Day Spa (41 one of the world’s largest holistic centers. Wagner Jr. Park (Battery Place and West East 20th Street, (212) 673-2272), includ- Close by, the 30,000 volumes of poetry Street), a more quiet, and even more green ing an hour in the ultimate in relaxation: A and the gentle, unrushed ambiance of the oasis of tranquility. floatation room where you can experience reading space at Poets House (72 Spring physical, emotional, and spiritual well- Street, (212) 431-7920), offer true nourish- To Rest, If Only For A Moment being in total silence or accompanied by ment for the soul. Need just a few precious moments to sit music. The New York Times says that La and unwind in the course of your busy Casa, "comes close to magical realism and Return to Your Senses ... Return to Nature day? New York offers many spaces that leaves you feeling otherworldly." With more than 1,600 parks and play- are open to the public where you can just If, within the hustle and bustle of this grounds, New York provides ample oppor- sit and be. Almost but not quite a real world, ‘otherworldly’ is what you long to tunity to return to the earth. Certainly, park, (53rd Street between feel, then the New York sanctuaries listed among the world’s Fifth and Madison here are sure to help you restore, refresh, most famous and Avenues) is a small and renew. Enjoy. beautiful are the 250 island of waterfall- acres of The New cascading calm York Botanical where the world- YOUR OWN LAWRENCE PROPERTIES Garden PHONE DIRECTORY (200th weary can rest and To reach the professional you want, dial our main Street at Southern regroup. For shelter number, 212-868-8320 and the extension listed below. Boulevard in The from the storm, the PRESIDENT Extension Bronx, (718) 817- Equitable Tower Asher Bernstein ...... 200 8500), and Central Atrium (787 DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT Donald H. Levy ...... 209, 217 Park and its miracu- Seventh Avenue OPERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION lous Strawberry between 51st and Anton Cirulli, Director ...... 332 Fields (Yoko Ono’s 52nd Streets), is an Ed Milone...... 326 living memorial to interior space full of Vincent Tavernite ...... 267 SENIOR MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES John Lennon at A couple enjoying the peaceful sanctuary light, air, and art. Karen Dooley ...... 530 West at of rowing a boat in Central Park Similarly, the Ford Lisa Gorelli...... 370 72nd Street) and Shakespeare Garden, a Foundation Building (320 East 43rd Elvera Leonetti ...... 360 Bernice Lugo ...... 391 horticultural return to the bard’s own Street between First and Second Avenues) MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES Stratford-upon-Avon garden (Central Park is a landscaped escape perfumed with the Rick Elezi, RAM ...... 421 near , just below the Belvedere fragrances of the earth’s most luxurious John Ward, RAM ...... 507 Castle and within walking distance of the seasonal flowers. And let us not forget the Mark Wiener...... 378 CLOSING DEPARTMENT ). But all throughout the silent warmth of the New York Public Regina Thomas...... 211 city, smaller and equally splendid gardens Library (42nd Street between Fifth and Peggy Garcia ...... 524 and parks allow for wonderful experiences Sixth Avenues, (212) 930-0800), where the ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT of communing with nature. Uptown, the two lions, Patience and Fortitude, stand Howard Kitain, CFO ...... 244 Pauline Lombardo ...... 273 Victorian Conservatory Garden and its guard outside and the brilliance of all time Beth Person ...... 221 Secret Garden (105th Street and Fifth is collected within. Lina Shapiro ...... 302 Avenue) are the stuff of which fairy tales Gladys Soto ...... 500 Susan Strain ...... 264 are written. (84th to To Relax The Body JoAnne Yousef ...... 249 89th Streets and East End Avenue), is a If you believe that your body, your mind, OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE bastion of historic quietude with views of and your soul are all connected, then sure- Anita Goldberg...... 324 Gracie Mansion, the East River, and ly you appreciate the value of pampering SECRETARIAL STAFF Lyda Meyer ...... 342 all within its purview, your physical self to reduce stress and Nancy Russo (Mr. Levy’s Assistant) ...... 219 and a place for the children to play. In restore balance. At the Tej Ayurvedic Patty Schmidt ...... 364 midtown, the United Nations Garden Clinic (162 West 56th Street, (212) 581- Donna Weinberg...... 422 (First Avenue at 45th Street, (212) 963- 8136), you can heal your body and make PAYROLL DEPARTMENT Chris Baker...... 254 1234), with its 16 acres of flowers, trees, your skin radiant through the art and sci- Odalis Vasquez...... 216 and esplanades, makes one wonder what ence of India’s 5,000 year old Ayurvedic RECEPTIONISTS all the fighting is for. Downtown, Battery formula. Or, enjoy the rejuvenating effects Karlene Kelly ...... 0 Eucesha Rodriguez...... 0 Park (Battery Place and State Street), and of massage and aroma-therapy at Carapan ON-SITE MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES its water views, grass, and walking paths, (5 West 16th Street, (212) 633-6220), and Arianne Russo, Executive Plaza . . . . . 212-765-2789 is perhaps the best-known. But just return to your day renewed. And if you are Gerald Sherman, Joyce Equities . . . . . 718-263-6170 between Battery Park and its neighbor, the adventurous, treat yourself to a full-day Fax# 212-643-8275 2 OUR NEW SUCH INTERESTING PEOPLE DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT (continued from page 1) Such interesting people live in Lawrence and more than two dozen other flicks. She has acknowledged, one event in particular Properties-managed buildings. We thought you appeared on such top-rated television shows as demonstrates his outstanding respon- might like to meet some of them, so each issue Oz, , Law & Order, Sesame Street, siveness and ability to take charge in the we introduce someone we think you’d like to and others. And her Broadway and off- most trying of circumstances. During know. This issue, meet: Broadway experience includes A Streetcar his tenure with M.J. Raynes, Mr. Levy Named Desire, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, was the senior management profession- Aida Turturro: Cavalleria Rusticana, Working, Cabaret, and al assigned to 32 South, Three Penny Opera. the 18-story cooperative that was most A Very Working But despite her impressive and growing list of dramatically affected by the August New York Actor professional accomplishments and her member- 1989 explosion of a Con Edison steam ship in a family of ever-increasing thespian fame pipe. That devastating explosion, in (her sister, Olinda, is also an actor, and another which three people were killed and many more were severely injured, com- cousin, Nick Turturro, stars on NYPD Blue), pletely contaminated the residence with Aida Turturro is a genuine, hard-working, asbestos and resulted in the evacuation down-to-earth ‘everywoman’ who says that of all 185 families living there. It was she’s more interested in having a family than a Mr. Levy who, at great peril to himself, career. "It’s not like my career is number one," walked from floor to floor evacuating she says. "I’d love to have a house and a family. the building’s residents. Home is one of the most important things to me." Moreover, it was through Mr. Indeed, it is the people in her life that Turturro Levy’s ongoing leadership throughout values most. "I love to work with people. For the entire crisis and its aftermath that example, I’m a great organizer. I help people coordination of the necessary City agen- organize their homes, their filing systems, their cies, outside professionals, the coopera- Today, Aida Turturro is tired. She has just attics and closets." In fact, Turturro organized tive board, and its residents was accom- returned from Mexico where she was filming the closets of her friend, singer Cyndi Lauper. plished. As a result of Mr. Levy’s work, the upcoming Warner Bros. action movie, The "But I don’t do it as work," she says. "It’s an art all the myriad logistical, legal, health, and communication issues surrounding Deep Blue Sea, starring Samuel L. Jackson. for me, a creative way to help." the residents’ relocation, their access to Shot on the same watery lot where Fox made And when it comes to home, New York is the information, and the building’s overall Titanic, the movie is about a group of scientists home Turturro loves most. Born in management and rehabilitation were who try to save the world by experimenting with and raised in Manhattan, Turturro says she achieved in a manner that to this day the healing qualities of sharks. "The sharks get won’t ever move out of this city. "I don’t like remains a model of management excellence. a little out of hand in the story," says Turturro, the West Coast as much as New York. There’s Now a member of the Lawrence who, ironically, meets her scripted demise not more work out there, but you can always get on Properties family of extraordinary pro- within the jaws of the sea’s most terrifying crea- a plane. I love it here. I like being able to walk fessionals, Mr. Levy characterizes his ture but rather in a pyrotechnically brilliant to the places I want to be. I like the shopping. I position as Director of Management as explosion. "It’s a big production," she says of like the people. I like that there’s a sense of the logical evolution of his career. "I the film scheduled for release in about a year. community." chose to work with Lawrence She is tired, too, from her recent visit to the Even when Turturro talks about her busy Properties," says Mr. Levy, "first and Cannes Film Festival, where she went for the career, she talks more about her experiences, foremost because of the company’s screening of the soon-to-be-released movie, what she’s learned, and the people she’s worked reputation for quality. I’m also pleased to work within an organization that Illuminata, in which she appears with Susan with than about her own success. "I rarely go to gives me the opportunity to shape an Sarandon and Christopher Walken in a part writ- see my own movies," she says. "There are times ever-changing industry without compro- ten specifically for her by her director/cousin I get uncomfortable seeing myself on screen. I mising service or care." of Quiz Show and Barton Fink guess we all judge ourselves. In Cannes, I was Lawrence Properties is proud to fame. "It was intense," she says. "The whole more proud for my cousin than anything else." welcome Donald Levy. experience of seeing your movie with thousands As for herself, Turturro says, "I’m not into the of people in what must be the world’s hugest Hollywood scene. I just hang out with the reg- Habitat theater, and afterwards they gave us a standing ular people. I’m a person who goes to work so Magazine ovation ... it was very exciting. I told myself, ‘I I can pay the rent. Sometimes I have money and Honors LP’s could get used to this.’" sometimes I don’t. It’s hard to live like that. Karen Dooley And she is tired from the eager anticipation of And it’s hard work sometimes to keep my eyes Lawrence Properties is her appearance in Woody Allen’s new movie, open, act, and look good when I have to be on a proud to announce that Celebrity, scheduled for release this Fall, and set at six in the morning and then wait around all Senior Management from preparing for her upcoming scenes in day for my scene." Executive Karen Martin Scorcese’s new movie, Bringing Out The But obviously, it’s what she loves to do. And, Dooley has been Dead. in a final comment typical of her unpretentious awarded Habitat Karen Dooley In short, Aida Turturro is tired because she is attitude, Aida Turturro adds, "I guess I’ve been magazine’s Bronze a working actor. Her cinematic credits include pretty lucky. And lately, things are looking good. Management Achievement Award in the cate- Fallen, Sleepers, Money Train, Angie, I’m appreciative of what I have." gory of Projects and Improvements. Manhattan Murder Mystery, What About Bob?, Aida Turturro ... Such Interesting People. Congratulations, Karen.

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