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Lewis Rudin Dead at 74

One of the most prominent figures in the local real estate community, the chairman of the Association for a Better New York was a tireless spokesman for the city.

By Glen Thompson | Updated on September 21, 2001

NEW YORK CITY-Lewis Rudin, one of the most influential leaders in New York’s real estate community for more than four decades, died September 20. Rudin, a native New Yorker and Manhattan resident, was 74 years old.

In addition to serving as co-chair of Rudin Management Co., Rudin was perhaps best known as chairman of the Association for a Better New York, a consortium of New York businesses that he co-founded in 1971. During the city’s fiscal crisis in the 1970s, Rudin rallied the real estate and business communities to prepay their real estate taxes in a successful effort to help the city avoid bankruptcy.

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