Cy A. Adler

Who is Cy A. Adler?

Cy A. Adler is an author and conservationist, known for his work over several decades raising shoreline issues in and around New York City, USA, and especially for his early work on the initiative that would result in the creation of Hudson River Park. For his effort to see to completion a park stretching the entire length of the Hudson River shore of the island of Manhattan, Adler was recognized by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Trained as an Oceanographer, Adler taught at the City College of New York and contributed to several scholarly publications in his field in the 1960s and 1970s, but his environmental advocacy work began in earnest after the 1973 publication of his first book, Ecological Fantasies: A Defense of Innovation, Science, and Rational Approaches to Environmental Problems, which had grown out of a series of somewhat contentious debates on environmental policy published in Science and The Village Voice in May and November 1972. By the late-1970s Adler's articles on shoreline issues had has appeared in The Village Voice, as well as other local papers including The New York Times and Newsday.