Mark Levy
Mark Levy is a life-long New Yorker who has had a varied career in the non-profit, public and private sectors. He grew up in The Bronx, spent many years on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where his mother Harriet Levy still lives. In 1978, he and his late wife Ruth Weiss owned and lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. Mark now lives in a 1904 Victorian house in the Ditmas Park West neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn.
In the non-profit world, Mark has worked in all five boroughs as a tenant organizer, a low income housing manager and the publisher of a magazine on solar energy. in the non-profit world in all five boroughs. His public career with City Agencies included oversight and management of thousands of City-owned residential properties, supervision of maintenance and construction for the City’s homeless shelters, historic preservation and handicap accessibility projects for the City’s historic courthouses and damage assessment and construction management at Ground Zero after the attacks of 9/11. After taking advantage of an early retirement program in October 2002 he founded The Levys’ Unique New York! New York’s First Family of Tour Guides.
When not running the biz, Mark is active with the Fire Brothers Men’s Team, biking in Prospect Park, tending his flower garden in the front yard, growing vegetables in his back yard (and they taste great!) and cooking at Casa Levy. He enjoys traveling and adventurous eating at ethnic restaurants, and Mark particularly loves New York City, but not as much as he loves the true passion of his life, his partner Alisa Brot, a fervent Manhattanite and special education supervisor.
