Tom Allon
Tom Allon | |
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Born | Tom F. Allon United States |
Occupation | Newspaper publisher, writer |
Tom F. Allon is an American newspaper publisher. He owns Manhattan Media.[1]
He was for five months a candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor of New York City in the 2013 election,[2] but subsequently dropped out of the race.[3]
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Early life and career
Allon, a native New Yorker, grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[4] Allon attended Stuyvesant High School. He attended Cornell University, where he worked for The Cornell Daily Sun and was its sports editor and a senior editor. He graduated in 1984. He then received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[4][5]
After graduating from Columbia, Allon taught English at his alma mater, Stuyvesant High School.
Career
From 1986 to 1991, Allon was editor of The West Side Spirit, a community newspaper now owned by Manhattan Media, the company of which Allon currently serves as CEO. Along with The West Side Spirit, Manhattan Media also publishes the community newspapers Our Town, The Westsider, the Chelsea Clinton News, the political newspapers City Hall and The Capitol, and the magazines Avenue and New York Family.[6]
Mayoral candidacy
On July 12, 2011, Allon announced that he would run for mayor of the City of New York.[7] He stated that New Yorkers need a leader "like me who thinks like an Israeli: tough and always ready to defend his people."[8]
On January 10, 2012, the Liberal Party of New York selected Allon as its mayoral candidate.[9]
Allon's chances at winning the Republican nomination dwindled after two better-known candidates, billionaire grocer John A. Catsimatidis and former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Joseph J. Lhota, entered the race.[3] While Allon "made a strong impression at a series of candidate forums," his candidacy failed to gain traction, and "his polling numbers mired in the low single digits."[3] Allon also had difficulty attracting campaign donors, reporting just $17,335 in contributions in the two months before he dropped out of the race.[3] Allon withdrew from the race on March 17, his campaign more than $4,000 in debt.[3] The Liberal Party subsequently endorsed Catsimatidis.[10]
Outside activities and memberships
Allon helped create two public high schools, Eleanor Roosevelt High School on the Upper East Side and Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He also served on the advisory board of the West Side Crime Prevention Program and was the president of the New York Press Association in 2008.
References
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- ↑ Utsav Rai, Cornell Alumnus Will Run For Mayor of New York City (February 28, 2012), Cornell Daily Sun
- ↑ Manhattanmedia.com
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- ↑ Michael Howard Saul, Long-Shot Bid Boosted by Liberals (May 7, 2013), Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Michael M. Grynbaum, Liberal Party Backs Catsimatidis (May 7, 2013), New York Times.
External links
- Articles with hCards
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- Official website not in Wikidata
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- Living people
- New York Democrats
- New York Republicans
- Publishers
- Politicians from New York City
- People from Manhattan
- Stuyvesant High School alumni
- Year of birth missing (living people)