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Carnegie Hall Vice Chair Dead in Apparent Suicide
1010 WINS ^ | Jul 29, 2005 10:18 am US/Eastern | 1010 WINS

Posted on 07/29/2005 1:25:32 PM PDT by Calpernia

Arthur Zankel, the financier who gave $10 million for the Carnegie Hall recital space that bears his name, plunged to his death from his ninth floor apartment in an apparent suicide, police said Friday. He was 73.

Zankel, Carnegie Hall's vice chairman, died Thursday at New York Hospital after apparently jumping from his Fifth Avenue apartment, Detective Noel Waters said, confirming a report in The New York Sun. Waters said Zankel jumped around 11 a.m. Thursday and landed in a rear courtyard.

Zankel, a member of the Citigroup Inc. board of directors from 1986 until last year, specialized in real estate investment through his firm High Rise Capital Management. He served as a co-managing partner of First Manhattan Co. for almost 20 years, until 1997.

His donation helped fund the $100 million venue at Carnegie Hall that opened in 2003. Zankel Hall fulfilled Andrew Carnegie's original vision for three performance spaces at the complex, offering an intimate venue _ with seats for about 600 compared with 2,804 in the main Isaac Stern auditorium.

Citigroup Chairman Sanford Weill said Zankel (pronounced zan kell') was an astute adviser _ and his best friend.

``He was the director that really understood the numbers, would quickly be able to dissect the details of a transaction and could catch things that didn't make a heck of a lot of sense,'' Weill said in Friday's editions of the Sun.

Zankel loved that the venue that carried his name brought together musicians from all over the world, said Weill, who is the namesake for Carnegie Hall's third venue, the 268-seat Joan and Sanford I. Weill Recital Hall.

The construction of Zankel Hall required the digging of more than 6,300 cubic yards of bedrock _ enough to fill 1{ Olympic-size swimming pools. The hall sits about 40 feet below street level, directly under the main auditorium. A remote-control system of lifts, steel trusses and wagons allow artists to rearrange the floor and stage to fit most any performance.

``Arthur Zankel will be remembered as a kind, caring, humorous, brilliant, and wise person,'' Kenneth Bialkin, who served on the board of directors of Citigroup along with Zankel, told the Sun.

The financier also was a trustee of the Teachers College at Columbia University and a director of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd.

Survivors include his wife, Judy, and four sons from a previous marriage.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arthurzankel; citigroup; humanrights; iraq; oilforfood; suicide; un; zankel
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Observation:

Arthur Zankel was a board member and investor of Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch were coordinators in the Oil For Food Program in Iraq.

1 posted on 07/29/2005 1:25:32 PM PDT by Calpernia
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To: Calpernia

I wonder what he was about to get caught having done.


2 posted on 07/29/2005 1:26:26 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Free Michael Graham!)
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To: KylaStarr; Cindy; StillProud2BeFree; nw_arizona_granny; Velveeta; Dolphy; appalachian_dweller; ...

ping


3 posted on 07/29/2005 1:27:10 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: thoughtomator

I don't know, but jumping from a building is a good way to kill somebody on the ground.


4 posted on 07/29/2005 1:28:41 PM PDT by SpringheelJack
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To: Calpernia

That's no way to get to Carnegie Hall.


5 posted on 07/29/2005 1:29:11 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Calpernia

This has NOTHING to do with the Islamic-U.N.,......move on......


6 posted on 07/29/2005 1:30:04 PM PDT by maestro
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To: SpringheelJack

also, it's a lousy way to go


7 posted on 07/29/2005 1:30:34 PM PDT by sofaman
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To: SpringheelJack

or at least make a good impression....


8 posted on 07/29/2005 1:30:41 PM PDT by steveo (Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
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To: Calpernia

He fell 9 stories but didn't die until he reached the hospital? How is that possible?


9 posted on 07/29/2005 1:35:03 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Borges
That's no way to get to Carnegie Hall.

On the other hand, it doesn't require much practice, either.

10 posted on 07/29/2005 1:35:24 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Calpernia

Interesting. Has he or HRW come under scrutiny or does this appear unrelated at this point?


11 posted on 07/29/2005 1:41:28 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: maestro

And you believe this because....


12 posted on 07/29/2005 1:41:42 PM PDT by mad puppy ( "He's with me!" And I'm with W.)
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To: mollynme
He fell 9 stories but didn't die until he reached the hospital? How is that possible?

Ummmmm....it was a long fall?

13 posted on 07/29/2005 1:44:57 PM PDT by llevrok (Semper Conservitatus)
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To: SpringheelJack

he jupmed into the courtyard at the back of the building, not onto 5th avenue.


14 posted on 07/29/2005 1:45:46 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: thoughtomator
Well... it used to be that the gamblers hanged themselves, bankrupts and stockbrokers jumped from the windows, upper-class girls who found themselves under acute embarrassment used to swallow poison, and those bored and tired of sybaritic life cut their veins open. Shooting was reserved to honorable men. This financier guy seems to maintain the old tradition.
15 posted on 07/29/2005 1:45:47 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: pollyannaish

I know HRW is under investigation connecting to the OIl for Food scandal.

I don't know specifics about Arther Zankal.


16 posted on 07/29/2005 1:45:57 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: mad puppy; maestro

maestro was being sarcastic.


17 posted on 07/29/2005 1:46:40 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

interesting.


18 posted on 07/29/2005 1:47:37 PM PDT by oceanview
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He fell 9 stories but didn't die ... How is that possible?

I know of a guy who fell 24 stories and lived. Unfortunately he fell from a 25 story building.

19 posted on 07/29/2005 1:48:35 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
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To: thoughtomator

actually, I think the better question might be - had he decided to talk or cooperate, or did he know something. you know the old adage, "dead men tell no tales".


20 posted on 07/29/2005 1:49:26 PM PDT by oceanview
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