Robert Hammond is a Co-Founder and President of Friends of the High Line.
His organization bought the High Line, a 1.5-mile-long disused elevated
rail structure on Manhattan's West Side,
from the brink of demolition, in 1999, to the start of construction, in
2006, on its conversion to a public park. The organization has raised
over $150 million, and the first phase of the park is scheduled to open
in 2008.
Mr. Hammond has worked as a consultant for a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors and non-profits, including the Times Square Alliance, Alliance for the Arts and National Cooperative Bank (NCB).
As a founding team member and then as a board member, Mr. Hammond helped to launch thebody.com, the largest online HIV/AIDS information resource in 1996. Thebody.com achieved profitability three years after its launch and remains one of the few consistently profitable health-related Web sites. In 1994 he helped launch and subsequently sell an in-hotel catalog company.
Mr. Hammond is also a self-taught artist. With work in private and corporate collections, his work can be seen publicly in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Battery Park, CraftSteak New York and Craft Dallas. From 2002 to 2005 he served as an Ex-Officio Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr. Hammond holds a graduated with Honors in History from Princeton University. Born and raised in San Antonio, TX he has lived in the West Village since 1994.
Mr. Hammond has worked as a consultant for a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors and non-profits, including the Times Square Alliance, Alliance for the Arts and National Cooperative Bank (NCB).
As a founding team member and then as a board member, Mr. Hammond helped to launch thebody.com, the largest online HIV/AIDS information resource in 1996. Thebody.com achieved profitability three years after its launch and remains one of the few consistently profitable health-related Web sites. In 1994 he helped launch and subsequently sell an in-hotel catalog company.
Mr. Hammond is also a self-taught artist. With work in private and corporate collections, his work can be seen publicly in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Battery Park, CraftSteak New York and Craft Dallas. From 2002 to 2005 he served as an Ex-Officio Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr. Hammond holds a graduated with Honors in History from Princeton University. Born and raised in San Antonio, TX he has lived in the West Village since 1994.
On the Web
- Website: Friends of the High Line
- Article: Crain's Forty Under 40
- Video: Building the High Line
