Uris Brothers

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The Uris Brothers (dt. Brothers or brothers Uri) were American contractors and patrons .

The brothers Percy (1899–1971) and Harold Uris (1906–1982) were sons of a Russian Jew who immigrated to the USA in 1892 and founded a cast iron / wrought iron factory there.

The Uris Brothers built skyscrapers like 55 Water Street , the American Tobacco Company Building , the JC Penney Building , the ITT Building (320 Park Ave., now Mutual of America), the RCA Communications Building (60 Broad Street), and the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. They also worked outside of New York, for example at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Your most important architect was Emery Roth . In 1960 she converted their construction company Uris Buildings Corporation to a public company .

Her last projects include the Uris Building (today: Paramount Plaza ) in Manhattan with the Uris Theater (today: Gershwin Theater ) located in it.

In 1956, they set up a foundation, the Uris Brothers Foundation , and made generous donations to their respective alma mater , the Universities of Cornell and Columbia , and the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The main building of the university library was renamed the Uris Library . A building for social sciences erected in 1972 bears the brothers' name. The Uris brothers also supported Lenox Hill Hospital .

After Percy's death, Harold sold the company to a parking lot operator, the Kinney Parking Company, for $ 115 million. The foundation was dissolved in 1998 after all remaining funds were donated: $ 10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, $ 10 million to the Central Park Conservancy , $ 3 million to the New York Public Library , $ 3 million to the educational television network Thirteen / WNET , $ 2, 5 million to Carnegie Hall and $ 1.5 million to the New School for Social Research .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palm Beach Daily News: "Percy Uris Rites Hero" - Nov. 23, 1971
  2. ↑ a b Kihss, Peter. "HAROLD URIS, SKYSCRAPER DEVELOPER AND PHILANTHROPIST, IS DEAD AT 76" , The New York Times , March 29, 1982.
  3. ↑ Uris Hall
  4. ↑ Michael Specter: Harold Uris Recollects with Pride . In: New York Times , July 19, 1981. Retrieved January 28, 2009. 
  5. ↑ GLENN COLLINS: New York Times: "A Foundation Gives Away $ 30 Million and Calls It Quits" - June 25, 1998