Overview
- His death was confirmed by family, who said he passed Sunday at a hospital in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, while being treated for an infection after shoulder surgery.
- The passing occurred a day before the planned 50th-anniversary celebration of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, which was canceled.
- A Brooklyn native, he spent seven years in Mayor John Lindsay’s administration and helped negotiate the 1968 release of Columbia dean Henry Coleman during the Hamilton Hall occupation.
- He founded the law and public affairs firm that became a mainstay in New York government relations and he remained active at the firm late in life.
- Public officials and colleagues offered remembrances of his influence and character, and funeral and celebration-of-life plans have not yet been announced.