More than 200 building and construction industry leaders from the Bronx and New York City, as well as dignitaries from around the world, including former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins and NYJTL founder, Skip Hartman, attended the inaugural Bronx Chamber of Commerce Building Awards dinner. The event was held at Marina Del Rey in the Bronx on October 29.
Many friends of NYJTL were also on hand to salute the construction and development of the new Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in Crotona Park in the South Bronx. The award was presented jointly to NYJTL and Gluck+, the architects and builders of the $26.5 million project.
During the awards ceremony, the Bronx Chamber also recognized seven other Bronx building and construction projects. They were: Banknote Building, Taconic Investment Partners; Boricua College Village, Atlantic Development Group; Heritage Fields, NYC Dept. Parks & Recreation, Turner Construction; The Mall at Bay Plaza, Prestige Properties & Development Company; Montefiore Hutchinson Campus Ambulatory Care Center, Simone Development Group; South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures & the Arts, Signature Construction Group and Via Vence, Phipps Houses & Jonathan Rose Companies.
The Building Awards are a part of the Centennial celebration of the Bronx.
The crowd heard from Ambassador Ido Aharoni, the Consul General of Israel in New York, Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Congressman Charles Rangel, and Congressman Eliot Engel, as well as Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., the night’s keynote speaker. Mr. Diaz expressed his enthusiasm for the Cary Leeds Center and the impact it will have. “The Center will make a sport that was not readily available an option for Bronx students. It will offer tennis and education for our children. It is more than jobs, more than cement and bricks and mortar.”
