
PR Agencies and the 2020 Office-Closure Question: A Retrospective
A retrospective on how PR agencies handled the 2020 office-closure question — three operators on the record, what held up, and the agency category settlement five years on.

A retrospective on how PR agencies handled the 2020 office-closure question — three operators on the record, what held up, and the agency category settlement five years on.


Howard Rubenstein (1932-2020) built one of the defining American PR operations from his parents' Brooklyn apartment in 1954, a sixty-six-year arc representing Mayors Koch, Giuliani and Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, George Steinbrenner, Fred Trump, and a roll call of New York civic institutions.

Gotham Public Relations, founded in 2002 by Courtney Lukitsch, is a New York boutique specializing in architecture, design, luxury craft, and creator-led brands \u2014 with clients including AA Studio, Kohn Pedersen Fox, and Van Cleef & Arpels.

A retrospective on the public-relations firms that serviced the Trump Organization and its properties across the most-covered decade in American commercial communications. Who took the work, who kept it, and what it took to service a client the rest of the industry publicly walked away from.

Real estate PR firm Rubenstein Public Relations (RPR) has just announced new client wins that include the Brooklyn brokerage firm Ideal Properties Group, real estate investment group HAP Investments, and Stuyvesant Square condominium Rutherford Place.