Background
McAneny was born on Christmas Eve, 1869, in Greenville, New Jersey, graduated from Jersey City High School and then reported for The New York World, supporting civil service, city planning and a Bureau of Municipal Research.
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McAneny was born on Christmas Eve, 1869, in Greenville, New Jersey, graduated from Jersey City High School and then reported for The New York World, supporting civil service, city planning and a Bureau of Municipal Research.
Graduate Jersey City High School, 1885. Doctor of Laws, Hobart College, 1914.
On staff New York newspapers as reporter and correspondent, 1885-1892. Assistant secretary National Civil Service Reform League and New York Civil Service Reform Association, 1892-1894, secretary, 1894-1902, president, 1927-1936. Secretary, Executive officer New York Municipal Civil Service Commission under Mayor Low, 1902.
Company-author Review New York State Civil Service Law, 1899.
Drafted and revised Civil Service rules for New York City in effect, since 1902. Read law with Edward M. Shepard, 1903-1906.
President City Club, New York, 1906-1909. Incorporator bureau of Municipal Research, 1907.
Member committee appointed by Governor to revise New York City Charter, 1908, and adviser to later City Charter commissions.
Elected, on Fusion tickets, president Boro of Manhattan, 1910-1913, and president of the board of Aldermen, 1914-January 1916 (acting mayor of New York several months). Chairman Transit Committee of City Government which, with Public Services Commission, developed City.’s Dual Subway System, representing investment, city and operating companies of $600,000,000, 1911-1913. Chairman Committee on the City Plan, for comprehensive planning and zoning of New York (zoning ordinances adopted 1916, first in America).
Medal of Societe des Architectes Diplômes par le Gouvernement Français (Paris), for services to city planning and architecture, 1913.
Later decorated Chevalier Legion of Honor (France). Received medal Architectural League of New York, 1915, joint medal of architectural, engineering, and landscaping societies, 1939, and medal of Fine Arts Federation, 1940.
Honorary member New York Chapter of American International Assurance, Architectural League. Lecturer on municipal government at Yale, 1914 (Dodge Foundation), Union College, 1924 (Day Foundation).
Executive manager New York Times, 1916-1921.
Vice president American Newspaper Publs. Association, 1920-1921. Member committee 3 publications under War Trade Board, to regulate consumption of newsprint paper, World War, 1917-1919.
V.chmn., 1906, chairman, 1917, Carl Schurz Memorial Committee.
Member editorial commission on publication Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, 1913. Chairman of the Board Trustees College of City of New York, 1916-1925.
Chairman State Transit Commission, 1921-1926. Member Russell Sage Foundation Committee, 1922-1929, to prepare plans for development New York City and met area upon which Foundation private funds expanded $1,500,000.
President, since 1930, of body organized to carry on this project, the Regional Plan Association.
Reorganized City’s Sanitation Department, 1933. City comptroller for unexpired term, to December 31, 1933. Chairman commission appointed by Governor on State Grants-in-Aid to Municipalities, 1935.
Chairman, Commission appointed by President of the United States, on Fiscal Relations of the United States Government and District of Columbia, 1936.
President, Title Guarantee & Trust Company, 1934-1936, Chairman of the Board, 1936 until retirement. Director Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Bowery Savings Bank, Home Insurance Company, City of New York Insurance Company, City Real Estate Company, Title and Realty Safe Deposit Company, Ritz Carlton Hotel Corporation of New York and (president) Ritz Carlton Hotel Corporation of Boston.
Organized movement for holding World’s Fair in New York in 1939. Serving as president Fair Corporation first year, to May 1936, and since as Chairman of the Board.
Chairman of the Board Governors Federal Hall Memorial Associates (New York City), 1940.
Member committee appointed by Governor to revise New York City Charter, 1908, and adviser to later City Charter commissions. Member committee 3 publications under War Trade Board, to regulate consumption of newsprint paper, World War, 1917-1919. Member editorial commission on publication Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, 1913.
Member Russell Sage Foundation Committee, 1922-1929, to prepare plans for development New York City and met area upon which Foundation private funds expanded $1,500,000.
Member Reformed Dutch Church. Clubs: Century, Union, City, Bankers, Pilgrims of the United States.
Married Marjorie Jacobi, January 4, 1900. Children: Mistress Ruth Loud, Mistress Elizabeth Harrison, Herbert, Arnold, Ernest, David.