Daniel Rose (born 1929) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist,Bridgespan: "Daniel Rose Commits His Time to Achieve Real Results for Kids"
retrieved September 22, 2016 and essayist.Rose Associates: "Daniel Rose – Chairman"
retrieved May 28, 2016 Rose developed the Pentagon City complex adjacent to Reagan Washington National Airport, the

One Financial Center One Financial Center is a modern skyscraper adjacent to Dewey Square in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1983 by Rose Associates, it is Boston's 11th-tallest building, standing tall, and housing 46 floors. An unusu ...

and Keystone Building office towers that anchored the redevelopment of

Downtown Boston Downtown Boston is the central business district of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston was founded in 1630. The largest of the city's commercial districts, Downtown is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters; city, c ...

, and conceived and reinvented a

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

real estate apartment complex into

Manhattan Plaza Manhattan Plaza is a large federally subsidized residential complex of 46 floors and at 400 and 484 West 43rd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1977, it has 1,689 units and about 3,500 tenants. Under its Section 8 federal ...

for the Performing Arts. A philanthropist,Oxford Literary Festival: Daniel Rose speaks on the Harlem Educational Activities Fund
retrieved October 8, 2016 he founded the Philanthropy Roundtable: "Making moves to prepare kids for life" by Victorino Matus
retrieved October 30, 2016 inner-city youth education program, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund,EBONY: "How a NYC Youth Program Changes Lives—a Dream at a Time" by K. Barrett Bilaly
retrieved October 30, 2016 he also established academic and professional educational programs, and served in several government administrations in unpaid advisory roles. His award-winning essays and speeches have covered subjects as diverse as economics, inner city education, racial problems, social injustice, real estate, food and wine, and housing.

Early life and education

Rose was born to a

Jewish Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...

family in

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

, New York City, one of three sons of Belle and Samuel B. Rose.New York Times: "Frederick P. Rose, 2d-Generation Builder And a Major Philanthropist, Is Dead at 75" By CHARLES V. BAGLI
September 16, 1999
September 19, 1999 He has two brothers, Elihu Rose and Frederick P. Rose. He attended Horace Mann High School in

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and then

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Career

Rose served as a military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the

U.S. Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 ...

during the

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.Counselors of Real Estate: "Biography – DANIEL ROSE"
retrieved May 28, 2016 Following his military service, he joined the family real estate development company, Rose Associates, founded by his father and his uncle, David Rose in 1928. Among other major projects, Daniel Rose led the development of Pentagon City in

Arlington County, Virginia Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the nati ...

, adjacent to

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is a public airport in Arlington County, Virginia, United States, from Washington, D.C. The closest airport to the nation's capital, it is one of two airports owned by the federal government and ope ...

, and 99 High Street and

adjacent to

South Station South Station, officially The Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station, is the largest railroad station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston and New England's second-largest transportation center after Logan I ...

as President of the firm, and became Chairman after the death of his brother, Frederick P. Rose in 1999. As an institutional consultant, Rose was responsible for the creation and implementation of the innovative “housing for the performing arts” concept for New York's

. By 2006, Rose Associates managed over 31,000 apartments in New York City, including

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and

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.New York Observer: "The Rose Family" By Jason Horowitz
December 18, 2006 He was a Director of 20 Dreyfus-sponsored mutual funds,Bloomberg: "Daniel Rose"
retrieved September 24, 2016 served as a Director of U.S. Trust Corporation, a Trustee of Corporate Property Investors from 1972 to 1998, as Expert Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as Expert/Consultant to the Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and as a founding director of th
New York Convention Center Development Corp
In his later years, Rose's reputation as a "legendary" business executive established him as a mentor and role model for aspiring young entrepreneurs and real estate executives, and many of his epigrams and quotations have gained wide currency.

Philanthropy and public service

Rose is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, a highly acclaimed initiative that has helped thousands of inner city youth enter college since 1989. He has served on the boards of the New York State Council for the Humanities; the

New York Institute for the Humanities New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 ** "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (No Doubt song), 1 ...

;New York Institute for the Humanities: "Daniel Rose"
retrieved September 22, 2016 the

Museum of the City of New York The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, in 1923Beard, Rick. "Museum of the City of New York" in to preserve and present the history ...

; the

Urban Land Institute The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a global nonprofit research and education organization with regional offices in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, and London. ULI aims to help its members and their partners build more equitable, sustainable, heal ...

; the

Committee for Economic Development The Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED) is an American nonprofit and nonpartisan public policy think tank. The board of trustees consist primarily of senior corporate executives from a range of U.S. industries an ...

; the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York; the New York Convention Center Development Corp; the Realty Foundation of New York; the Urban Land Foundation; the Police Athletic League; the Jewish Community Centers Association; the

Jewish Publication Society The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English. Founded in Philadelphia in 1888, by Reform Rabbi Joseph Krauskop ...

; and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Rose's other major philanthropic initiatives include serving as Chairman of the Board of the Horace Mann School, an institution to which he has contributed endowed chairs and which honored him, together with his family, with the naming of Rose Hall; the establishment of the Daniel Rose Chair in Urban Economics at M.I.T. (the nation's first), the Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute, the joint Yale/Technion Rose Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Program, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at

Cornell Tech Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City. It provides courses in technology, business, and design, and includes the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a partners ...

(founding Board Member),Chairman of Rose Associates Awarded Technion Honorary Doctorate
retrieved September 22, 2016 the Helping Africa Foundation (Chairman), and a major new initiative in Accra, Ghana to restore and rebuild the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture. With his late wife, Joanna Semel Rose, Rose has contributed to hundreds of other charitable organizations addressing racial, religious, academic, and humanitarian issues. Among their philanthropic activities was providing the seed funding that enabled production of the award-winning educational television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by

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. A military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, Rose has pursued his interest in foreign affairs as an officer of the

Foreign Policy Association The Foreign Policy Association (FPA, formerly known as the League of Free Nations Association) is an American non-profit foreign policy organization. According to the FPA, the organization aims to spread global awareness and understanding of US f ...

, the

Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank focused on Foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is an independent and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organi ...

and the

International Institute for Strategic Studies The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is an international research institute or think tank focusing on defence and security issues. Since 1997, its headquarters have been at Arundel House in London. It has offices on four co ...

. He was a founding board member of the

EastWest Institute The EastWest Institute (EWI), originally known as the Institute for East-West Security Studies and officially the Institute for EastWest Studies, Inc., was an international not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank focused on international conflic ...

and was appointed by President

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S.-government-funded organization that promotes free trade in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. He then became a Director of the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, its “legacy” philanthropic foundation. From 2004 to 2006, he was a frequent participant by telephone on Forum, an English language political discussion TV program broadcast from Tehran, Iran.

Writings

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and

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, Rose is a six-time winner of the Cicero Speechwriting Award given annually by Vital Speeches of the Day magazine. A 2015 collection of his speeches, "Making a Living, Making a Life"Amazon.com: "Making a Living, Making a Life"
retrieved September 22, 2016 was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by

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, which described it as "A wise, well-honed collection of speeches that address vital issues with fresh, penetrating insight." Covering subjects as diverse as economics, inner city education, racial problems, real estate, food & wine, and housing, his writings occasioned

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's assessment that "Dan Rose has created a body of work that is philosophy at its most useful: how does one live a good life.". A second compilation, "The Examined Life",Amazon.com: "The Examined Life"
retrieved June 14, 2021 was published in 2019, containing more recent essays and speeches as well as personal vignettes of his life. In addition to his own works, Rose contributed to "The Vintage Magazine Consumer Guide to Wine", and

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of t ...

's "America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans".

Awards

Rose received the James E. Landauer Award from the American Society of Real Estate Counselors; the Award for Community Service from the Building Owners and Managers Association; the Award for Excellence for Large Scale Mixed Use Development from the

; and Man of the Year Award from the Realty Foundation of New York. In 2003, he was named

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's “Entrepreneur of the Year” in real estate. He has received Honorary Doctorates from

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long I ...

; Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

. Other honors Rose has received include the Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture from the City of New York; the Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award from the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; the Business Leadership Award from the

National Committee on American Foreign Policy The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan activist organization dedicated to the resolution of conflicts that threaten United States interests. Founded in 1974 by Hans Morgenthau, NCAFP wo ...

and the Harlem Renaissance Award from the Abyssinian Development Corporation. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

, together with his wife, Joanna Semel Rose The

main-belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...

asteroid 70712 Danieljoanna, discovered by the

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in 1999, was named in their honor, while 70718 HEAF was named for the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF). Books dedicated to Daniel and Joanna S. Rose include

George Steiner Francis George Steiner, Fellow of the British Academy#Fellowship, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between ...

's ''In Bluebeard's Castle'', Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s ''Life Upon These Shores—Looking at African American History'',

Geoffrey Hartman Geoffrey H. Hartman (August 11, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, although he cannot be categorised by a single school or method. Hartman spent mos ...

's ''Scars of the Spirit'',

's "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World", and David S. Rose's ''The Startup Checklist''.

Charles Duff Charles Duff (7 April 1894 – 15 October 1966) was a Northern Irish writer of books on language learning. He also wrote a popular book on hanging and other means of execution.Introduction to ''A Handbook on Hanging'Retrieved 1 March 2016./ref ...

's book, "The North Atlantic Cities" was also dedicated to him.

Personal life

Rose was married to Joanna (née Semel), the long-time Chairman of ''

Partisan Review ''Partisan Review'' (''PR'') was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City. The magazine was launched in 1934 by the Communist Party USA–affi ...

'' magazine, until her death in 2021. They have four children: David Semel Rose Joseph Benedict Rose,New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Wendi B. Rose, Joseph B. Rose"
June 23, 1996 Emily Rose, and Gideon Gregory Rose.

References

External links

Daniel Rose official web site
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