Citizens for New York City

Dan Asslein, Julio Cruz, Deomar Suarez, Bryan Alvarez, Rafael Gonzalez, Jose Bustamante, Estarlin Nunez, Jennifer Classon, and Morgan Bale at The Citizens Summer Cocktail.

On Wednesday night, the Citizens Committee for New York City hosted a Citizens Summer Cocktail at the Central Park Boathouse.

For more than 35 years, Citizens Committee for New York City has supported volunteer-led neighborhood groups carrying out community improvement projects in the most underserved neighborhoods across all five boroughs.

Joe Smolinsky, Jigi Smolinsky, Robert Friedman, Ellen Hayes, and Morgan Bale

Jane Slater, Richard Kellerhals, Andrew Ormson, Luc Dowling, and Daisy Dowling

Citizens Committee for New York City offers grant awards, skills-building workshops, and project-planning assistance to support struggling communities. This year, Citizens Committee will be awarding over $600,000 in grants and supporting more than 350 resident-led efforts in all five boroughs.

Amy Thind, Jessica Gray, and Ashley Smyth

Robert Reffkin and Benise Reyes

Sunny Nagel, Alayna Zayas, and Elizabeth Cowie

Anne and Andrew Colosimo

Marisa and Richard Kellerhals

Danielle Sanders and Catheryn Pruess

Tara and Blake Nolan

Sacha Bale and Morgan Bale

Leslie Day, Kate Tylis, and Elizabeth Ross Lieberman

Danielle and Lauren Cohen

Danielle Thorsen, Lacary Sharpe, and Katie Newman

Erica Gottlieb and Paola Lima

Morgan Bale, Jane Slater, and Saleen Shah

This past Tuesday night, Alexandra Lebenthal hosted a book party for Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson's new book By Invitation Only; How We Built Gilt and changed the Way Millions Shop.

Alexis Maybank, Alexandra Lebenthal, and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Catherine Hooper, Nadine Salzman, and Eva Szumansky

Jessica Stark an dClaudia Lebenthal

Jay Diamond and Ben Diamond

Courtney Novograd and Claudia Lebenthal

Jay Diamond, Yaz Hernandez, and Valentin Hernandez Jr.

Amy Butte, Larry Leeds, and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Bobbi Brown and Alexis Maybank

Alexandra Lind Rose

Gillian and Sylvester Miniter

Edmundo Huerta, Asni Bernard, and Geoffrey Bradfield

Jonathan Farkas, Janna Bullock, R. Couri Hay, and Somers Farkas

Ashley Baker

Larry Leeds and Janna Bullock

Anne Grauso

Also this past Wednesday night at the R 20th Century Gallery on 82 Franklin Street, there was a photo benefit of UNICEF'S Next Generation showcasing photographers from UNICEF's work in the field. This year's benefit had a water theme in support of UNICEF's TAP Project to help fund water, sanitation and hygiene program in Vietnam, Mauritania, Togo and Cameroon, to put an end to preventable deaths of children from lack of clean water.

Jaime Jimenez and Kipton Cronkite

Alexandra Matthews and Phillip Stevenson

Morgan Jacobs and David DesPrez

Syncia Sabin and Matthew Turke

Ben Demarchelier and Gabrielle Knable

Melinda Bacon and Kimberly Bellinger

Natan Dvir, Jenna Bush Hager, Rich Hendricks, and Anastasia Photo

Alex Yesakov and Jon McLoughlin

Eleanor Grinshtein and Jess London

Tora Matsuoka, Jenna Bush Hager, Mia Baxter, and John Messinger

DJ Kiss

Ryan Koopmans and Natalia Kills

Daniela Maerky and Kristin Conrad

Daniel Reynolds

Jaime Jimenez and Casey Rotter

Kristina Capron, Tora Matsuoka, and Nataly Zaldana

Manish Vora, Mia Baxter, and Suzanna Lee

Nia Espinao and Christine Diaz

John Kluge and Danielle Abraham

Jasmine Mitchell and Yoko Iwaki

The Jay Heritage Center's (JHC) ever popular Spring Luncheon & Fashion Presentation by Neiman Marcus Westchester drew over 150 guests to American Yacht Club in Rye, NY on May 17th. Guests first enjoyed mimosas in picture perfect weather overlooking a harbor full of sailboats on Long Island Sound. A high energy runway show of summer wardrobe must-haves followed.

This year's event marked the 20th anniversary of the rescue of John Jay's boyhood home from demolition. Thanks to preservationists, today the site is a National Historic Landmark and member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area along with other Westchester jewels like Caramoor and Kykuit. Proceeds from the luncheon will benefit JHC's indoor and outdoor educational programs in American History, Architecture, Social Justice and Environmental Stewardship.

Jay Heritage Center President, Suzanne Clary and Neiman Marcus Westchester Vice President and General Manager, Beth Sharkey

Leah Rukeyser and JHC Vice President Michael Kovner

Three generations passionate about fashion and preservation, Rosanne Aresty, Kitty Aresty, and Skye Aresty

Jane Franke-Molner, Angela Kosinski, Christina Valauri, Kay Booth, Lauren Lambert, and Susan Scherer

Angela Kosinski, Christine Calzolano, and Meg Chmiel

Diane Clerkin and Gillian McGoey

Patricia Chadwick and Liz Wooster

JHC Young Preservationists Jennifer Coleman and Caroline Wallach

John Hannan of Greenwich Audubon and New York State Assembly candidate Steve Otis

DJ Manek Mathur

Christie Manning, Manek Mathur, Tommy Wolfe, and Alicia Baldwin

Seated: Danielle Cyclich, Suzanne Clary, Marianne Stoupnitzky, and Beth Sharkey. Standing: Rich Clary and Susy McCauley

Suzanne Clary, Taryn Clary, Tommy Wolfe, and Kay Yates

Over 150 guests attended the Jay Heritage Center Luncheon at American Yacht Club

Wednesday evening, May 23rd, titans of the leveraged finance industry turned out to support Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma at Bryant Park Café. The event raised over $750,000 for the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), founded in 2007 by Debra and Leon Black after Debra was diagnosed with the disease. MRA is under the auspices of the Milken Institute and is the largest private funder of melanoma research.

In addition to Debra and Leon Black and co-hosts Jeff Rowbottom of KKR and Brendan Dillon of UBS, attendees included host committee members from the most important financial and legal companies working in the sector. Jim Casey (JP Morgan), Tim Collins (GoldenTree), Brendan Connolly (UBS), James Cross (Simpson Thacher), Michael Damasso (Guggenheim Partners), Eric Falk (KKR Asset Management), Richard Farley (Paul Hastings), Scot French (Highbridge), Bill Hartnett (Cahill Gordon), Matt Janchar (Berkshire Partners), Jason Kanner (Kirkland & Ellis), Jim Keenan (Blackrock), Mike Lazar (Blackrock Kelso), Greg Margolies (Ares), Joe McGrath (Barclays Capital), David Miller (Credit Suisse), Russ Morrison (Babson Capital), George Mueller (KKR), AJ Murphy (Bank of America Merrill Lynch), Craig Packer (Goldman Sachs), Louis Salvatore (GSO Capital), Vik Sawhney (Blackstone), Alan Schrager (Oak Hill Advisors), Chris Solomon (Welsh Carson), Cade Thompson (KKR), Chris Turner (Warburg Pincus), Trevor Watt (Hellman & Friedman), and Jim Zelter (Apollo) were in attendance.

Jeff Rowbottom, Jedd Wolchok, Debra Black, Leon Black, and Brendan Dillon

The event also honored Dr. Jedd D. Wolchok of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, for his work in melanoma research. A three minute clip from a film about melanoma highlighted the importance of checking one’s skin and visiting the dermatologist regularly.

100% of the evening proceeds went to MRA. MRA has to date awarded more than $38 million to 97 research programs to make transforming advances in the prevention, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of melanoma, including $3 million to fund a “Melanoma Dream Team” with Stand Up to Cancer. MRA directs 100% of all public donations it receives to research.

Patricia Duff and Richard Farley

Jim Zelter and David Miller

Chris Turner

Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary and Christopher Abbate

Erik Falk

The MRA is a public charity formed under the auspices of the Milken Institute, with the generous founding support of Debra and Leon Black. It supports an international, cross-disciplinary group of biomedical researchers possessing clinical and scientific expertise to explore, identify and pursue innovative solutions to critical research questions, leading to better treatments and a cure for melanoma patients. Since its founding in 2007, MRA has become the largest private funder of melanoma research. For more information about MRA’s research programs, visit www.curemelanoma.org [1].