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The June Briggs Awards for Destination Management Excellence in New York City were held on January 8, 2008. It's our gala night to reward the year's top vendors and partners for outstanding service. Since it was held at the legendary Sardi's, our 200 guests were greeted by flash-bulb popping paparazzi and during cocktails sat for their very own caricatures. Our Managing Director, Gary Newman gave one of his legendary performances as he read great one-liners associated with the actors' faces covering the walls. For entertainment, a special song was written for the occasion highlighting the changes in New York City in the past 30 years. I was honored to give the awards to four outstanding winners. Please read my introductions for their awards in each section below. All in all, it was "A Grand Night for Singing."
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June Briggs Awards Special Song
Left to Right: Patti Golden (Aramark); June Briggs (Founder of Briggs); Anthony Napoli (President of Briggs); Pat Daily (Theatre Direct, Showtix); John Sweeney (The Westin NY at Times Square); Andrea Roman (The Palm, Westside)
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"How do you get to Carnegie Hall and Broadway? Of course “Practice – Practice - Practice” as the old joke goes. But for Front Row and Center Seats there is only one place to get those sought after “two on the aisles” for the mega hits. During the recent stagehand strike, our box office partners somehow got our guests those hard-to-get tickets and indeed the show went on!"
"The June Briggs Award
for outstanding service partner goes to Theatre Direct International,
Showtix."
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"The “lady in the harbor” and the ambassadors of the United Nations cannot hold a light to this gracious and wonderful hospitality partner. She handles missed boats and the U.N.’s Byzantine bureaucracy with the greatest diplomacy and détente. Irving Berlin must have written, “she’s the hostess with the mostest” with her in mind."
"The June Briggs
Award for outstanding hospitality partner goes to Patti Golden of
Aramark."
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"You never hear “Where’s the Beef?” at this famous steak house in the theatre district. The professional staff knows how to time dinner and pace a meal so our guests can catch their 8 o’clock curtain. It’s an Italian family business too, like our own, so we are very simpatico!"
"The June Briggs Award for outstanding venue goes
to The Palm West Side."
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"For the musical Pal Joey, Lorenz Hart wrote the song, “There’s a Small Hotel.” Well I think another musical describes it better – “Grand Hotel.” Straddling the hubbub theatre crowds of Times Square and the chaotic lemming commuters of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, it combines the neon shining lights of Broadway with the warmth and service of a boutique hotel."
"The June Briggs
Award for outstanding hotel goes to The Westin Times Square."
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