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The 2017 GANYC Apple Award Winners including Nathan’s, Governors Island and us (!)

The 2017 GANYC Apple Awards, recognizing achievements in New York City tourism, culture and preservation, were held last night at the SVA Theater in Chelsea.  It was quite a bawdy, rambunctious evening thanks to the host, cabaret star Mark Nadler, and a friendly, diverse line-up of presenters.

We were absolutely shocked to be honored last night with an award for our book The Bowery Boys Adventures In Old New York.  The other books in the category are so terrific and very different from one another — guide books (Kevin C. Fitzpatrick’s Governors Island Explorers Guide), classic food profiles (Ina Yalof’s Food And The City) and photographic ruminations on New York (James and Karla Murray’s Store Front II: A History Preserved).  Try them all out!

Here are the list of honorees from last night:

 

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City Culture

Leslie Koch, President and CEO, The Trust for Governors Island

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City Tourism

Central Park Conservancy

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City Preservation

Simeon Bankoff, Executive Director, Historic Districts Council

Outstanding New York City Website

Ephemeral New York

Outstanding Achievement in Radio Program/Podcasts (audio/spoken word)

There Goes the Neighborhood, WNYC

Outstanding Achievement in New York City Food (focusing on anniversaries and special accomplishments)

Nathan’s Famous

Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Book Writing (published October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016)

The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York, by Tom Meyers and Greg Young

Outstanding Achievement in Fiction Book Writing (published October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016)

Murder in Morningside Heights by Victoria Thompson

Outstanding Achievement in Essay/Article/Series Writing (published October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016)

A Walking Tour of 1866 New York: In the Footsteps of 150-year-old Guidebooks, by James Nevius, Curbed NY

Outstanding Achievement in New York City Museum Exhibitions (October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016)

Jacob A Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half, Museum of the City of New York

Outstanding Achievement in New York City Photography (singular image, published October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016)

Paul Kessel, Coney Island

GUIDING SPIRIT AWARD — Anthony W. Robins

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Steve Ross

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

Courtesy SDASM Archives -- Images from an album of Randolph Field photographed by Milton Blackstone. These images were taken for a photographic essay that was presented to President Roosevelt when he visited Randolph Field

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

 

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City — Tourism

 

Outstanding Achievement in Support of New York City — Preservation

 

Outstanding NYC Website

 

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

 

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 

 

Outstanding Achievement in Fiction Book Writing 

 

Outstanding Achievement in Essay/Article/Series Writing 

 

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Museum Exhibitions 

 

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

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.

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Photo by Paul Lomax/Uptown Collective