NEW YORK AND GLOBAL HEAVYWEIGHTS GATHER TO CELEBRATE ELIE HIRSCHFELD

New York leaders and luminaries paid tribute to one of the city’s favorite sons on Saturday night at Midtown’s historic Harmonie Club.

“It was heartwarming to be a part of a gathering that combined some of this city and the world’s most influential leaders in various fields, with close friends and family who have all meant so much to me throughout my life,” says the honoree, Elie Hirschfeld.

The iconic developer, athlete, and patron of the arts has a New York imprint of iconic properties that have included Riverside South, The Grand Sutton, Park Avenue Court, The Hotel Pennsylvania, and The Exchange Tower.

Among those gathered to celebrate Hirschfeld’s 65th birthday were such historic figures as former New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams; founder and president of Bunkone.com, Ari Ackerman; former New York City Commissioner of Landmarks, Steve Byrns; Bonnie Comley and Stewart Lane of MrBroadway.com; Thomas Huniford of Huniford Design; Thomas Sakmar, MD of the Rockefeller University; New York Times journalist Dan Shaw, and many others.