Donald Marc Halperin (July 25, 1945 – June 26, 2006) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
[4] On October 4, 1993, Halperin was appointed as New York State Commissioner of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal.
He was among those who, outnumbered 35 Republicans to 26 Democratic state senators, used a 23 day slowdown until concessions were made by the majority.
[10] In 1971 the New York Civil Liberties Union ranked him the third most liberal member of the legislature's upper house.
[11] He died on June 26, 2006, in the Menorah Nursing Home in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, of lung cancer,[1] and was buried at the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale, Queens.