Lewis Rudin (April 4, 1927 – September 20, 2001) was an American real estate investor and developer.
[1][2] Rudin was a founder of NADAP, a private nonprofit social services organization that serves residents in need of the New York City metropolitan area.
[3] Born to a Jewish family in the Bronx to May (née Cohen) and Samuel Rudin,[4] he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1944, and the New York University School of Commerce after serving as a sergeant in the Army during World War II.
Along with his brother he joined the family real estate holding, Rudin Management Company, which had been founded by his grandfather Louis Rudinsky, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, who initially worked as a grocer [1] before establishing the family's real estate business in the 1920s.
[10] The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is to honor his financial gift to New York University.