Year | Honoree(s) | President | ||
1998 | Tupper Thomas, Founder, Prospect Park Alliance | Glenn Smith | ||
1999 | Wildlife Conservation Society | Annette Wilkus | ||
2000 | Bernadette Castro, Commissioner, New York State office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation | Craig Coronato | ||
2001 | Dan Biederman, Co-Founder, Grand Central Partnership, 34th Street Partnership & Bryant Park Corporation | Ray Rolfe | ||
2002 | Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association | Aris Stalis | ||
2003 | Betsy Barlow Rogers, Founder, Central Park Conservancy | Ham Shirvani | ||
2004 | Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation | Dean Gomulka | ||
2005 | Christo and Jeanne-Claude – for The Gates | Michael Spitzer | ||
2006 | Peter Reid, Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, MoMA | Jennifer Cooper | ||
2007 | Joshua David and Robert Hammond, Co-Founders, Friends of the High Line | Adrian Smith | ||
2008 | Kathy Moser, Acting State Director, New York, The Nature Conservancy | Susannah Drake | ||
2009 | President’s Award: Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation | Service Award: Signe Nielsen, Principal & Partner, Mathews Nielsen | Education Award: Richard Kahan, Founder, The Urban Assembly | Susannah Drake |
2010 | President’s Award: Mary Miss, Artist | Service Award: Nicholas Quennell, Principal, Quennell Rothschild | Education Award: Jeffrey Downing, Vice President for Education, New York Botanical Garden | Tricia Martin |
2011 | President’s Award: Design Trust for Public Space | Service Award: Charles Birnbaum, Founder, The Cultural Landscape Foundation | Education Award: Len Hopper, Author, Adjunct Professor, City College New York | Denisha Williams |
2012 | President’s Award for Service and Leadership: Doug Blonsky, President and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy; Central Park Administrator | President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship: Carter Strickland, Commissioner, NYC Department of Environmental Protection | President’s Award for Promoting the Profession: The Architect’s Newspaper, Diana Darling and William Menking | Laura Starr |
2013 | President’s Award: Seth Pinsky NYC Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency |
President’s Award for Service and Leadership: Regina Myer President, Brooklyn Bridge Park |
President’s Award for Promoting the Profession: Michael Kimmelman Architecture Critic for The New York Times |
Nette Compton |
2014 | President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship: Dr. Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation | President’s Award for Service and Leadership: Leslie Koch, President, The Trust for Governors Island | President’s Award for Promoting the Profession: NY1 News | Jennifer Nitzky |
2015 | Margaret Newman, Executive Director, The Municipal Arts Society | Mark Levine, NYC Council Member; Chair, Committee on Parks | Kate Orff, Director, Columbia University’s Graduate Urban Design Program; Principal, SCAPE Landscape Architecture | Celine Armstrong |
2016 | President’s Award for Service and Leadership: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, United States Senator for New York | President’s Award for Promoting the Profession: Brad McKee Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine |
President’s Award for Inspiring the Next Generation: Mary Alice Lee, Director, The Trust for Public Land’s NYC Playgrounds Program & Melissa Potter Ix, Design Principal, Studio HIP |
Jennifer Nitzky |