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Henry J. Stern (born
May 1,
1935; was a member of the
New York City Council from 1972 to 1983 and appointed as the Commissioner of the
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation from 1983 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 2001.
Early life
Stern grew up in the
Inwood neighborhood of
Upper Manhattan. He attended
Bronx High School of Science, graduating when he was 15.. He attended CUNY and Harvard Law School.
Political career
He began in public service as law clerk to a New York State Supreme Court Justice, Matthew M. Levy. He was appointed Secretary of the Borough of
Manhattan in 1962, and was an assistant to Borough Presidents Edward R. Dudley and Constance Baker Motley. In 1966, Parks Commissioner Tom Hoving appointed him executive director of the agency. He later became Assistant City Administrator in the office of Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello. In 1969, the new Consumer Affairs Commissioner appointed him Associate Commissioner and the next year he became her first deputy. He continued to serve until the end of
Betty Furness' term in 1973.
City Council
In November 1973 he was elected to the City Council as a Councilman-at-large for Manhattan on the
Liberal Party of New York State line, defeating the Republican candidate by about 1000 votes to win second place (two were elected per borough). His at-large colleague on the Council was
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. and the two worked together on many matters, including the sale of neckties to raise funds for libraries.
He was re-elected in 1977, winning by 16,000 votes. In 1981, he received the Republican as well as the Liberal nomination, but the position was abolished by the Federal courts.
Parks Commissioner
In February 1983, Mayor
Edward I. Koch appointed him Commissioner of Parks & Recreation; he served for Koch's second and third term.
The election of Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1993 brought Mr. Stern back to city government; he was appointed Parks Commissioner, starting January 1, 1994. He was one of the few Giuliani commissioners to serve the entire eight years of his mayoralty, plus a month with Mayor Bloomberg.
Civic life
Citizens Union
NYCivic
On February 4, 2002, Henry J. Stern returned to the civic world as founder and president of
NYCivic
. In the last five years, he's written 362 articles on public policy. He sends them to a list of people who have requested them, which now includes 14,000 subscribers.
Personal Life
On September 12, 1976 he was married to Dr. Margaret Lora Ewing, a pediatrician whom he met at a meeting of the Park Lincoln Free Democrats club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They have two sons, Jared, born in December 1977 and Kenan, born in June 1980.
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