2011 Jane Jacobs Medal Recipients

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Meet the 2011 Jane Jacob Medal Recipients and learn more about their innovative projects that build upon the work — and the spirit — of Jane Jacobs to revitalize urban communities for the people who live in them.

Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal

Tribeca Film Center, Lifetime Leadership Medal


Paul Steely White

Transportation Alternatives, New Ideas and Activism Medal

 


Janette Sadik-Khan

NYC Department of Transportation, New Ideas and Activism Medal

 

 

Jane Jacobs Medal

Jane Jacobs Medal Recipients

2010

Joshua David and Robert Hammond, Co-Founders of Friends of the High Line

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, longtime and founding President of the Central Park Conservancy and current President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

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2009

Damaris Reyes, Executive Director of Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)

Richard Kahan, Founder and CEO of the Urban Assembly.

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2008

Peggy Shepard, executive director and co-founder of West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT)

Alexie Torres-Fleming, Executive director and founder of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMP)

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2007

Barry Benepe, Co-Founder of Greenmarket

Omar Freilla, Founder of Green Worker Cooperatives

Press release

2007 Recipient Bios