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October 12, 2004

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Partnership for New York City Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Presentation of Premiere Partner Award to Preston Robert Tisch

The Partnership for New York City bestowed its inaugural Premiere Partner Award upon Preston Robert “Bob” Tisch, Chairman of the Loews Corporation and Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the New York Football Giants, during a celebration marking the Partnership’s 25 th anniversary this morning at the Regency Hotel.

To mark the occasion of its quarter century of service to New York City, the Partnership’s Executive Committee established the Premiere Partner Award to honor business leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the Partnership and to building public-private coalitions in New York City. David Rockefeller, founding Chairman of the Partnership, presented the award to Tisch, who chaired the Partnership from 1990-1993.

“Bob Tisch is someone whom we all admire on many counts -- as one of New York’s most successful entrepreneurs, as the head of a wonderful family, as an exceptionally generous philanthropist, to name a few,” said Rockefeller. “However, what makes Bob so special is his ability to bring New Yorkers together. He has always devoted time and energy to getting people to know the people of this diverse city and to understanding their problems and aspirations. And he has used what he has learned to bring New Yorkers together and build partnerships for the good of our city.”

One of the most renowned and respected business entrepreneurs in the country, Tisch, with his brother, Laurence, built Loews Corporation into one of the nation’s largest diversified financial corporations, with subsidiaries including CNA Financial Corporation, Lorillard, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, Texas Gas Transmission and Bulova Corporation.

Equally, if not more important, Tisch has distinguished himself as one of the most significant contributors to the human services, educational, civic, business and charitable communities of New York City. Tisch served as Chairman for 19 years of the New York Convention & Visitors Bureau (now renamed NYC & Company). He was founding Chairman of the New York City Convention and Exhibition Center Corporation and Chairman of the Citizen’s Committee for the Democratic National Conventions, successfully bringing conventions to New York City in 1976 and 1980. He was Postmaster General of the United States from 1986 to 1988. In the 1990s, Tisch was appointed by Mayor David Dinkins to serve as New York City’s Ambassador to Washington.

From 1990-1993, Tisch was Chairman of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce (now renamed the Partnership for New York City), where he was instrumental in developing a campaign to enhance New York’s position as an international business center. Tisch was a founding Co-Chairman of Citymeals-on-Wheels and served as Chairman of New York City Public Private Initiatives Inc., a public-private partnership that funds important community programs.

Tisch, a product of the city’s public schools, is a Trustee of New York University and is cofounder and Chairman of Take the Field, a non-profit corporation dedicated to renovating and rebuilding the athletic facilities of New York City’s public high schools. Tisch has raised more than $130 million in public and private dollars for the project.

Among those gathered to celebrate Bob Tisch’s achievements and dedication to New York City were Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor David Dinkins, current Partnership Co-Chairmen Jeffrey W. Greenberg and Martin Lipton, and former Partnership Chairmen Robert

B. Catell, Henry R. Kravis, Richard D. Parsons, James D. Robinson, III and Jerry I. Speyer.

The Partnership for New York City (www.pfnyc.org) is a network of business leaders dedicated to enhancing the economy of the five boroughs of New York City and maintaining the city’s position as the global center of commerce, culture and innovation.