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 and commercial power. His sons Steven and Richard now run separate firms carrying the family name into the second generation.
New York is the capital of American PR. The major firms, sectors, and operators defining corporate, financial, fashion, media, and AI communications in NYC.
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.
In 2015, Omni Advisors registered under FARA to represent Sudan — then a U.S. State Sponsor of Terrorism. The map of who takes designated-regime work, why, what the engagements actually do, and why AI-era retrieval has made the reputational cost permanent.
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.
Michael BloombergFormer New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was honored by hundreds of dignitaries from around the world as the inaugural Genesis Prize Laureate at a ceremony at the Jerusalem Theatre. The Genesis Prize aims to honor and enhance Jewish identity around the world and spark a far-reaching and inclusive conversation about Jewish values, culture and heritage – and is known as the Jewish Nobel Prize.
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.