The Second Annual Apple Awards! Honoring the Best of New York

The Second Annual 2016 GANYC Apple Awards, honoring the best in New York City preservation, tourism and culture, arrives this March again to the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space.  We were honored to be chosen for an award last year in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Radio Program/Podcasts. And this year, we’re showing up to present an award!

This year’s ceremony is on Monday, March 7, 2016 at 8 pm.  There are some tickets left so get yours directly from Symphony Space here.

Here are this years honorees. Congratulations, good luck to the nominees and we’ll see you all on March 7:

 

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City  — Culture

• Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel Director: Museum of the City of New York
• Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director: Manhattan Theater Club
• David Remnick, Editor: The New Yorker
• Todd Haimes, Artistic Director: Roundabout Theater Company

 

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City — Tourism

• Gregory Wessner: Executive Director, Open House New York
• John Urban, One World Observatory
• Jerry I. Speyer: Chairman, Tishman Speyer
• Vin Cipolla: President, Municipal Arts Society & Rockwell Group Ventures

 

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City — Preservation

• Jeremiah Moss: Organizer of #SaveNYC, Author of Vanishing New York
• Simeon Bankoff: Executive Director, Historic Districts Council
• Peg Breen: President, New York Landmarks Conservancy
• Steve Zeitlin: Founding Director, City Lore

 

Outstanding NYC Website

• Working Harbor Committee: www.workingharbor.org
• Daytonian in Manhattan: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com
• Vanishing New York: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
• Manhattan User’s Guide: www.manhattanusersguide.com

 

Outstanding Achievement in Radio Program/Podcast (Audio/Spoken Word)

• Cityscape: 90.7 WFUV: George Bodarky
• Our Streets, Our Stories: A Brooklyn Neighborhood Oral History Project: Brooklyn Public Library
• The Brian Lehrer Show: WNYC 93.9 FM
• The NYPL Podcast: New York Public Library

 

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Food (focusing on anniversaries and special accomplishments)

• Yonah Schimmel Knishery: Celebrating 125 Years
• Danny Meyer, Union Square Hospitality Group: Hospitality Included Program started November, 2015
• Marcus Samuelsson: Bringing the quality food scene back to Harlem starting with Red Rooster, 2010
• Lou, Salvatore & Marie Di Palo, Di Palo’s: Celebrating 90 years on Mott & Grand streets

 

Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Book Writing 

• Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks: Donald Albrecht and Andrew Dolkart, Editors; Iwan Baan, Photographer; The Monacelli Press
• Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal: Joseph Alexiou, Author; NYU Press
• Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York: Judith Gura and Kate Wood, Authors; Larry Lederman, Photographer, The Monacelli Press
• The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide: Kevin G. Fitzpatrick, Author, Lyons Press

 

Outstanding Achievement in Fiction Book Writing 

• Run You Down: A Novel by Julia Dahl; MacMillan Publishers
• Thirteen Ways of Looking: Fiction by Colum McCann; Penguin Random House Books
• City on Fire: A Novel by Garth Risk Hallberg; Knopf Doubleday Publishing
• Murder on Amsterdam Avenue: Gaslight Mystery by Victoria Thompson; Berkley Publishing Group

 

Outstanding Achievement in Essay/Article/Series Writing 

• Building Blocks by David Dunlap, The New York Times
• Off the Menu by Florence Fabricant, The New York Times
• Grub Street, New York Magazine, Sierra Tishgart, Senior Editor
• The Price of Nice Nails by Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times

 

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Museum Exhibitions 

• Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition: Premier Exhibitions Inc.
• China: Through the Looking Glass: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life: New York Botanical Garden
• One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North: MoMA

 

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Photography (singular image, published October 2015-15)

• Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
• Hiroko Masuike: St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• Paul Kessel: Looking at Self, Times Square, True Believers
• Timothy Schenck: New Whitney Museum 2

PLUS:  A special lifetime achievement award will be presented to Marjorie Eliot, best known for her Sunday afternoon parlor jazz concerts at 555 Edgecombe Avenue, one of the most historic address in Harlem.

“A writer, actress and pianist, Eliot began the parlor jazz concerts as a tribute to her son Philip, who died in 1992. In addition to memorializing her son and helping ease the pain of his loss, these sessions keep alive the tradition of parlor jazz and rent parties from the bygone days of Harlem. The concerts have attracted jazz lovers from around New York and around the globe, who cram 50 at a time into apartment 3-F to hear world-class jazz each and every Sunday — she has yet to miss a Sunday since starting the series.

Photo by Paul Lomax/Uptown Collective