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Art Commission Honors Eight N.Y.C. Projects
The commission's 24th annual awards
program recognizes top public projects in the five boroughs.
Art Commission Honors Designs
The 24th annual Art Commission Awards program recognized
eight public projects for excellence in design at a recent
event hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
Art Commission President Joyce Menschel at the Morgan Library
& Museum in Manhattan.
The winners, selected from hundreds of project submissions
in 2005, were:
• the Flight 587 Memorial in Queens, designed by
a team of Rachel Kramer, Kevin Quinn, Freddy Rodriguez, Kaitsen
Woo, Signe Nielsen, Tricia Martin, and Martin Hartmann
• Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, designed by Sara
Caples, Everardo Agosto Jefferson, Chakaia Booker, and Elizabeth
Kennedy
• Ronald McNair Park in Manhattan, designed by Nancy Prince
• Tillotson Avenue step street in the Bronx, designed by
the N.Y.C. Department of Design and Construction, N.Y.C. Department
of Transportation, Molly Bourne, and Mathews Nielsen
• five street-end parks in Manhattan near the Harlem River,
designed by Claire Dudley and Natasha Andjelic
• Bronx Zoo Center for Global Conservation, designed by Sylvia
Smith and Susan Chin
• plant upgrades and new facilities at the Tallman Island
Water Pollution Control Plant in College Point Queens, managed
by George Shelden and Vatche Minassian
• inventory and replacement of seven Robert Moses-era vehicular
bridges along the Shore Parkway in Brooklyn, designed by Marion
Pressley and Paul McGinley, and managed by Semyon Burshteyn.
The commission also recognized the Horticultural Society
of New York's GreenBranches Program, which designs, installs,
and maintains gardens at libraries throughout the city.
Plumbing Fund Gives Scholarships
The Plumbing Industry Promotion Fund of New York City has
announced that 10 students have been awarded $1,000 for each
of the next four years of their higher education studies as
part of its annual scholarship program.
The Plumbing Industry
Promotion Fund awarded $40,000 in scholarships over
four years. From left to right in back row are: Scott
Riedman; a scholarship recipient; Kevin Brady, Plumbers
Local 1; Ralph DeMartino, promotion fund chair; Larry
Levine, Association of Contracting Plumbers; and Patricia
McMahon, another recipient. Front row, left to right,
are scholarship recipients: John Mazza, Kaitlyn Latham,
Dana D'Ameleo, Jennifer Gilligan, and Lauren Ashley
Vascellaro.
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The fund has awarded scholarships for 25 years, giving $750,000
to more than 400 students. Recipients can attend any accredited
college, university, or technical institution in the country
and choose any course of study.
The winners and the schools they attend are: Dana D'Ameleo,
Yale University; Jenna Gilligan, University of Scranton; Allyson
Impalloen, SUNY Albany; Kaitlyn Latham, Marist College; Patricia
McMahon, Saint Joseph College; John Mazza III, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute; Michael Pearse, Villanova University;
Scott Riedman, SUNY Binghamton; Thomas Sciotto, Rochester
Institute of Technology; and Lauren Ashley Vascellaro, University
of Delaware.
ACEC Inducts Board Members
Bradley Fisher of Friedman Fisher Associates in Albany was
recently named president of the American Council of Engineering
Companies of New York for 2006-2007, succeeding Charles Franzese
of Hunt Engineers, Architects & Land Surveyors in Horseheads,
who is now ACEC New York's national director.
Other new officers are: Gregory Kelly, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Quade & Douglas of New York, as president-elect; Del Dausman,
C&S Engineers of Syracuse, as treasurer; and Joseph Amato,
Cameron Engineering & Associates of Syosset, as secretary.
Ernest Hanna of GZA GeoEnvironmental in Buffalo, Elliot Sander
of New York's DMJM Harris, and Linda Shumaker of Shumaker
Consulting Engineering & Land Surveying in Binghamton
are all new vice presidents.
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