Urban Neighbors Resources:
Exhibition Acknowledgments

Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife was curated by Miriam T. Gross, Natural History Specialist, General Research Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library.

Thanks to the chiefs, curators, and staff of the following New York Public Library collections for their cooperation in making materials available for the exhibition:

Humanities and Social Sciences Library
George Arents Collection of Books in Parts; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; General Research Division; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Map Division; Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy; Rare Books Division; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Science, Industry and Business Library

Mid-Manhattan Library, The Picture Collection

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We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following individuals and institutions for supplying materials to the exhibition:

American Museum of Natural History, New York; Ben Asen; Bryant Park Restoration Corporation; City of New York/Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; City of New York/Parks & Recreation; Michael J. Feller; Frank Ippolito; David S. Künstler; Mary LeCroy; Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit; Don Riepe

Curator’s Acknowledgments

Transforming Urban Neighbors from an ambitious idea into reality would not have been possible without the encouragement and assistance of many others. My gratitude is due the Library Administration, many present and former colleagues, and outside institutions and individuals.

A privilege of curatorship was the opportunity to work with the highly skilled, creative, and enthusiastic Exhibitions Program staff. I want to thank all for their support: Susan Rabbiner, Manager; Meg Maher, Research and Website Coordinator; Myriam de Arteni, Exhibitions Conservator; Jean Mihich, Registrar, and Caryn Gedell, Associate Registrar, and their colleagues; Russell Drisch, Installation Coordinator, and the preparation and installation team; and Jeanne Stehr-Jahn, Exhibitions Assistant. My admiration, respect, and affection for two long-term collaborators, Research Coordinator Jeanne Bornstein and Exhibition Designer Lou Storey, continues to increase.

Many thanks to Suzanne Doig for lively and imaginative graphic design and illustrations; to Editor Barbara Bergeron, wordsmith extraordinaire; to Melissa Grundman and her colleagues in Development; to Herb Scher and Sabina Potaczek in Public Relations; to Betsy Bradley of Public Programming; to Maura Muller, Volunteer Coordinator, and the many docents who give unselfishly of their time and talents; and to Website Developers Jonathan Blanc, April Cech, Michelle Misner, and Chris Mulholland.

There are many other present and former Library colleagues to whom I owe gratitude for help along the way: Virginia Bartow, Jean Bowen, Mimi Bowling, Diana Burnham, Ruth Carr, Devon Cummings, Beth Diefendorf, Sharon Frost, Isaac Gewirtz, Holland Goss, Denise Hibay, Alice Hudson, Karenann Jurecki, Terry Kirchner, Marcel Lipkowitz, Rodney Phillips, John Rathé, Cynthia Rosado, Ken Springle, Julia VanHaaften, and Daniel Wong.

I was extremely fortunate in having the assistance of six distinguished zoologists to ensure the scientific accuracy of Urban Neighbors. Four have helped with previous exhibitions: Mary LeCroy (ornithology), Louis Sorkin (entomology), Norma Feinberg (ichthyology), all with the American Museum of Natural History, and Michael W. Klemens (herpetology), Director of the Metropolitan Conservation Alliance. New members of this special sextet were mammalogist Eric Brothers, also with the Museum, and Jay Cordeiro (invertebrates) of the Association for Biodiversity Information, Boston.

In addition to individuals outside of the Library already named, I also want to thank Maria Yakimov and Barbara J. Rhodes at the Museum, Jodi Moise of Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit, Jerome Barth of the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation; Marcia Fowle of the New York City Audubon Society, and Michael Crewdson, co-author of Wild New York. Lastly, I want to thank David Gross for his mostly patient support and encouragement over many years, and companionship in our explorations of the natural world.