The alternatives industry's annual fundraiser for Lincoln Center had David Geffen Hall stuffed with acrobats, dancers, jugglers, and magicians — to say nothing of the billionaires sipping cocktails and noshing on hors d'oeuvres such as a potato bite topped with caviar and crème fraîche.
The event pulled in hundreds of traders, bankers, and lawyers despite a rainy, windy night on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
It was a celebration of New York, according to one of the gala's chairs, Ilana Weinstein, a longtime hedge-fund recruiter born in the city.
Steve Tananbaum, Ilana Weinstein, and Steve Cohen.
Guests at Lincoln Center's Alternative Investment Industry Gala were entertained by dancers, musicians, jugglers, and acrobats.
Persons:
David Geffen, —, Ilana Weinstein, Point72, Steve Cohen, Steve Tananbaum, Dave Kotinsky, Ken Griffin, Steves, Weinstein, Hunter Point's Bennett Goodman, York, Jamie Dinan, Axel Capital's Anna Nikolayevsky, Lincoln, partygoer
Organizations:
Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, Business, Lincoln Center In, Sunshine State, Citadel Securities, Citadel, Lincoln, Alternative, Industry
Locations:
New York, Florida, Lincoln Center In Florida, Miami, West Palm, Chicago, Balyasny