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.

• 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