2025 GANYC Apple Awards

Date: Monday, March 3, 2025
Ceremony: 8:00pm / Gala Reception: 6:30pm
Venue: Merkin Hall, 129 West 67th Street
Host: Mark Nadler

Ticket info coming soon!

The GANYC Apple Awards celebrate those who make New York City great! Over a dozen awards are given out each year to individuals & organizations from across our five boroughs. In addition to these main nominated categories below, we will be awarding a Lifetime Achievement Award to author & activist Eric K. Washington, and our Guiding Spirit Award to Bob Gelber!


2025 GANYC Apple Awards Nominees


Outstanding Achievement in Support of NYC Culture

1. Nicholas Heller (@newyorknico) for lifting the profile of the local New York experience and continuing support of NYC businesses
2. Poster House
3. The Public Theatre
4. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Outstanding Achievement in Support of NYC (Tourism)

1. Times Square Alliance for their continued work
2. Macy’s for their giant welcoming events such as the fireworks, Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Santaland
3. Asad Dandia for his work with NYC Narratives, teaching kids in schools how to start tour business, bringing tour to underprivileged groups and new groups, and telling untold Arab history
4. Rockefeller Center for their many free public events and programming, from Olympics viewing parties to the Rockefeller Tree

Outstanding Achievement in Support of NYC (Preservation)

1. NYC Trans Oral History Project
2. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial
3. Abolitionist Heritage Center, founded by Friends of Abolitionist Place
4. LPC Commissioner Michael Devonshire

Outstanding NYC Website

1. Secret NYC
2. TheLocavore.com
3. NYCforfree.com
4. Atlas Obscura

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Radio Program or Podcast (Audio/Spoken Word)

1. Untapped New York (multiple hosts)
2. 99% Invisible's Power Broker interview series (Roman Mars, host)
3. Most Marvelous NYC (Megan Marod and Jonathan Turer)
4. Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD (Chenjerai Kumanyika, host)>

Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing (Non-Fiction)

1. All the Beauty in the World The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, by Patrick Bringley
2. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, by Kevin Baker
3. Paradise Bronx: The Life And Times Of New York's Greatest Borough, by Ian Frazier
4. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized Crime Boss, by Margalit Fox
5. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, by Ross Perlin

Outstanding Achievement in Essay/Article/Series Writing

1. Erica Brosnan/NY1 for their ongoing coverage of congestion pricing
2. Tim Lisante/Chalkbeat: “I oversaw education at Rikers. Here’s how we can better support court-involved youth.”
3. Kim Velsey/Curbed: “What Superfund?”
4. Eric Lach/New Yorker: “The Luxury Office Development That Became a Horrific Migrant Shelter”

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Food

1. Barbetta Restaurant
2. Pete’s Tavern (celebrating 160 years)
3. Neir’s Tavern (celebrating 195 years)
4. Lee Lee’s Bakery

Outstanding NYC Museum Exhibitions

1. The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. JIMMY! God's Black Revolutionary Mouth, Schomburg Center
3. This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, Museum of the City of New York
4. Edges of Ailey, Whitney Museum

Outstanding Achievement in Social Media

1. Shiloh in the City (@shilohinthecity)
2. John Friia (@here_in_ny)
3. Maureen Steinert (@sincerelymaureen)
4. Thomas Silk (@landmarksofny)
5. Brian Lee and Jae Kicho (@righteouseats)

Outstanding Achievement in NYC Photography

1. Lawrence Henderson, African Burial Ground
2. James and Karla Murray, Great Bars of New York City
3. James Maher, Glass City
4. Stanley O'Connor/Isle of New York Tours, Astor Place Barbershop