Gold Key Awards
The Avenue of the Americas Association not only pursues advancement for the Avenue— it recognizes and celebrates those who actively enhance the Avenue and the City of New York. Each year, the Association honors acclaimed Leaders from local business, art and government institutions with the presentation of the Gold Key Award.
The following list of past Gold Key Award recipients illustrates its prestige and significance throughout the community and the City.
- 2024 Fisher Brothers
- 2023 Greg Clancy, RXR Realty
Janno Lieber, MTA - 2022 White & Case
- 2019 The Rockefeller Group
- 2018 Vito Bacarella
- 2017 Salesforce
- 2016 Hines
- 2015 Mitsui Fudosan America
- 2014 Silverstein Properties
- 2013 Equity Office
- 2012 Paramount Group, Inc.
- 2011 RXR Realty
- 2010 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- 2009 MetLife
- 2008 The Rockefeller Group
- 2007 SL Green Realty Corp.
- 2006 The Hippodrome Building
- 2005 G-Holdings LLC
- 2004 Central Park Conservancy
- 2003 Gotham Organization
- 2002 American Folk Art Museum
Gerard Wertkin - 2001 Time Warner
- 2000 Morgan Stanley
- 1999 The Museum of Modern Art
- 1998 Madison Square Garden
- 1997 The Durst Organization
- 1996 New York Public Library Andrew Heiskell
- 1995 Equitable Life Timothy Welch
- 1994 NBC News
- 1993 The Museum of Television and Radio
- 1992 PwC James Schiro
- 1991 Radio City Music Hall
- 1990 Edward J. Minskoff
- 1989 Zachary Fisher
- 1988 Richard A. Voell
- 1987 David N. Dinkins Baltron B. Bethel
- 1986 John M. Regan, Jr. João Clemente Baena Soares
- 1985 Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
- 1984 J. Peter Grace
- 1983 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
- 1982 Alphonse W. Salomone Jr.
- 1981 Seymour B. Durst Edward Seaga
- 1980 Alton G. Marshall, Kenneth Taylor
- 1979 The New York Times
- 1978 ABC CBS NBC
- 1977 Barron Hilton Ellsworth Bunker Sol M. Linowitz
- 1976 Wallace Harrison Emilio G. Collado
- 1975 Barbara Walters Alastair Gillespie
- 1974 James D. Finley Teodoro Moscoso
- 1973 William P Rogers William M. Ellinghaus
- 1972 Shelton Fisher Miguel Alenian
- 1971 Bruce A. Gimbel David L. Yunich
- 1970 Harding L. Lawrence Gustav S. Eyssell
- 1969 Ely R. Callaway, Jr. Hjon Gab Plaza
- 1968 General David Sarnoff Sol M. Linowitz William M. Batten
- 1967 Michael L. Haider General David Sarnoff Dean Rusk
- 1966 Leonard H. Goldenson Juan Trippe
- 1965 Frank Stanton William S. Paley David Rockefeller
- 1964 Robert R. Wagner George S. Moore
- 1963 Conrad Hilton Nelson A. Rockefeller
- 1962 James R. Gates, Jr. J. Peter Grace
- 1961 Henry R. Luce