The Fashion Center Business Improvement District has honored its Board Chairman, George Kaufman, for his long-standing support of the fashion industry and leadership on local economic development issues. The BID presented Mr. Kaufman with a framed historic timeline of the BID at its annual membership meeting held on April 21 at Stitch Bar, located on West 37th Street in Manhattan.

"George has shown un-rivaled leadership when it comes to supporting the fashion industry and the BID," said Barbara Blair Randall, executive director of the Fashion Center BID. "We are honored to be working side by side with George as we continue enhancing the Fashion Center's image as a center of commerce and artistic and cultural life, as well as an emerging residential neighborhood."

In addition to serving as the BID Board chairman, Mr. Kaufman is the president and chairman of the Board of Kaufman Realty Corp. which has been active for three generations in the ownership, management and development of commercial and residential properties located primarily in the New York City New York City: see New York, city.

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New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.  area.

Mr. Kaufman also is president of the Astoria Motion Picture Studio and is a board member of a number of philanthropic and civic groups, including the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Real Estate Board of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , the Whitney Museum, and the American Museum of the Moving Image Located at the site of the former Astoria Studios (now operating as the Kaufman Astoria Studios) in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA), the Museum of the Moving Image (originally named the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation, then the .

The Fashion Center Business Improvement District a not-for-profit corporation A not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. A corporation that is organized to provide profits to its owners or members is a for-profit corporation. , was established in 1993 to improve the quality of life and economic vitality of Manhattan's Fashion District.

Through programs in the areas of streetscape street·scape  
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1. An artistic representation of a street.

2. Surroundings composed of streets: the urban streetscape.  improvements, public safety, marketing , economic development, and community service, efforts are aimed at promoting the district as a strategic midtown mid·town  
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A central portion of a city, between uptown and downtown.

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US & Canad the centre of a town  business location and ensuring New York's position as the fashion capital of the world.