![]() She served as Commissioner from 2002 to 2013 under Mayor Bloomberg, and since then has become a Principal at Bloomberg Associates.īurden also worked as a public school teaching aide in Harlem in the 1960s. Starting in 1990, Burden served on the New York City Planning Commission, when she was appointed by New York City Council president Andrew Stein. Among her other New York projects are the Midtown Community Court and the Red Hook Community Justice Center, which provides integrated legal, economic and social services. In an interview for New York magazine, she cited her stepfather's influence on her design sensibilities, noting the Canadian black granite she chose for the esplanade was the same stone he selected in 1964 for "Black Rock", the CBS headquarters. She was responsible for the development and implementation of design guidelines for the 92-acre (370,000 m 2) site as well as for overseeing the design of all open spaces and parkland, including the waterfront esplanade. ![]() įrom 1983 until 1990, Burden was Vice President for Planning and Design of the Battery Park City Authority. Whyte, the urbanologist, with whom she worked on his Project for Public Spaces. Career īurden worked with the architecture firm Gruzen & Partners and one of her mentors was William H. ![]() She later earned a Master of Urban Planning from Columbia University, writing an award-winning thesis about solid-waste management. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, with a concentration in environmental science. She graduated from the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut and attended Wellesley College until her marriage in 1964. Her stepmother, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer (1917–2011), was a daughter of railroad heir and United States ambassador W. Paley, the son of a successful immigrant cigar entrepreneur who built a family acquisition into CBS. She has a brother, Stanley Grafton Mortimer III five half-siblings, William Cushing Paley, Kate Cushing Paley, Averell Mortimer, Jay Mortimer, and David Mortimer and two step-siblings, Hilary Paley Califano and Jeffrey Paley. Harvey Cushing, the "Father of American Neurosurgery" and Pulitzer Prize winning author. Supreme Court, John Jay, and a granddaughter of Dr. She is a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. (1913–1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune. Early life īurden is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley (1915–1978) and her first husband, Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr. She is also a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1996. She worked on Battery Park City from 1983 to 1990. Burden is leaving an indelible legacy of how all five boroughs will look and feel for decades to come." īurden previously worked for the New York State Urban Development Corporation. As stated in a 2007 profile of Burden in The New York Times: "Whether walking up and down 368 blocks in Jamaica, Queens, to see which streets can accommodate 12-story buildings, or grabbing a tape measure from her desk to set the dimensions of seating in public plazas across the city, Ms. She had a reputation of holding developers to stricter design standards than previous planning directors. Burden was an important supporter and active contributor to the success of the project for public redevelopment of the High Line. She was a proponent of revitalizing Lower Manhattan, improving public access to the Brooklyn waterfronts, improving commuter rail into the city, and reconsidering rezoning plans. She was the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission under Mayor Bloomberg from 2002 to 2013. Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden ( née Mortimer January 18, 1944) is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens.
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