Nassau Land Trust: About Us

A. Thomas (Tom) Levin

Kevin McAndrew

Lloyd P. Zuckerberg is the Chairman and founder of the Nassau Land Trust. Incorporated in 2001 using the highly successful Southampton-based Peconic Land Trust as a model, the Nassau Land Trust was formed in response to Lloyd's belief that County landowners had few informational resources on alternatives to outright development of vacant land. Through his own real estate company, Lloyd has used his knowledge of land conservation to create a limited development plan for an historic estate in Old Westbury. He is also applying these principles to an historic farm property in the hamlet of Sagaponack on the East End.

In his work, Lloyd specializes in projects with a preservation component, either of buildings or land. Immediately prior to setting up his own company, he was a Vice President with LaSalle Partners, a multi-national real estate services firm. At LaSalle he was the deputy project manager for the $200 million redevelopment and renovation of Grand Central Terminal. Before that, Lloyd was a senior executive with Grand Central Partnership and its sister companies, 34th Street Partnership and Bryant Park Restoration Corporation. Grand Central Partnership is the nation's most comprehensive business improvement district, providing supplemental municipal services to over 50 blocks surrounding Grand Central Terminal. Its work and that of its sister BID's, in particular Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, have been recognized nationally for their success by organizations such as the American Institute of Architects and Time magazine.

Lloyd is a second-generation native of Long Island, having been raised in Lawrence on the South Shore. He was graduated from Harvard Business School, received his BA in Political Science from Tufts University, and was graduated from The Hotchkiss School. His activities include membership in the Institute for Classical Architecture, Municipal Art Society, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Urban Land Institute. He is a board member of a project of Phipps Houses in New York City, and of the Peconic Land Trust in Southampton. He is the publisher of Jose M. Allegue: A Builder's Legacy.

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John v.H. Halsey is founder and President of Peconic Land Trust, a nonprofit land conservation organization based in Southampton with stewardship centers in Amagansett and Cutchogue. The Trust's professional staff works with landowners to identify alternatives to full-yield development that will enable the perpetual protection of open space and farmland on Long Island. Since it was founded in 1983, the Trust has completed over 250 projects, protecting more than 5,700 acres with a value in excess of $135 million through private conservation methods and its work with municipalities. The Trust is currently engaged in over 150 pending projects comprising several thousand acres that are key to defining the communities of Long Island and to preserving its rural heritage.

A former advisory board member of the Long Island Community Foundation, he currently serves on the boards of the North American Land Trust, the Nassau Land Trust, South Fork Land Foundation, and the Southampton Youth Association as well as the Trustees Council of the Preservation League of New York State. He is currently chair of the Land Trust Alliance/New York Advisory Committee. Raised in Southampton, John earned a B.A. in Sociology and Education at Dartmouth College and a M.S.W. degree in Organization, Planning and Administration from the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. In 1993, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Long Island University for his work protecting the heritage of Long Island.

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Kathleen Kleinman comes to the land trust movement in a round-about way. A clay artist and an avid equestrian, Kathleen was involved in the field of education as an art teacher. She received her B.F.A degree from St. John's University and an M.S. in art education from C.W. Post College. Her love of the outdoors and open space has inspired the many nature motifs found in her artwork. Often, Kathleen's observation of the natural world takes place on horseback. She rides extensively throughout Long Island and takes part in many organized trail rides around the country. It was in response to seeing beautiful riding areas being developed and encountering the closure of favorite old trails, that she sought information and help from Peconic Land Trust president and Nassau Land Trust board member John Halsey. She quickly galvanized a number of equestrian organizations into attending a dinner that featured John Halsey as the speaker. John explained how the Peconic Land Trust had orchestrated some viable solutions in similar situations, using the tools of conservation. Lloyd Zuckerberg was one of the concerned attendees at that dinner and the rest, as they say, is history.

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George LaMay is a certified arborist from the New York State International Society of Arboriculture. He and his wife Cyndy of 33 years founded LaMay's Tree Service in 1972 based in Greenlawn, New York. Sons Buddy and Jason also work in the successful 33-year-old family business.

For 10 years George served on the board of The Long Island Arborist Association before becoming its president in 2002. During his term, he organized Arborday, an annual event for which dozens of Long Island companies donate thousands of dollars of tree work to various non-profit cultural resources, including Caumsett State Park, Farmingdale College, and the Vanderbilt Museum.

As an active member of the Green Guerillas, George works to encourage the use of organic materials to stimulate soil, which makes trees and shrubs more resistant to disease and pests. He is a member of the Cornell Cooperative Extension. Through his involvement in the Greenpoint Organization with the LIAA, he is an advocate for environmentally-friendly plant health care.

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A. Thomas Levin is a director and shareholder in the law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C., with offices in Mineola, New York City, Albany, Melville, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of Brown University, and holds two law degrees (J.D. and LL.M.) from New York University School of Law.

Tom is Past President (2003-2004) of the 71,000 member New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), and of the Nassau County Bar Association, and is President-Elect of the National Caucus of State Bar Associations. Admitted to practice law in New York, Florida, the US Virgin Islands, the US Supreme Court and various other federal jurisdictions, Tom concentrates his practice in the fields of local government law, land use regulation, commercial litigation, and appeals, representing both private and public sector clients. He serves as Village Attorney or special counsel for more than a score of Long Island municipalities and school districts.

Tom is a Trustee of the Historical Society of the Courts of New York, and is Counsel to that organization, a member of the Advisory Council of Nassau/Suffolk Law Services, Inc., and the advisory boards of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School and the Land Use Law Center Conference at Pace Law School, and the American Law Institute. For more than 30 years, he has been pro bono general counsel to the Child Care Council of Nassau, Inc. and the Rosa Lee Young Childhood Center, and Editor of the Bench Book for Trial Judges, published by Thomson/Westgroup. He is also the author of numerous other legal articles and is a frequent lecturer on legal topics.

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Kevin McAndrew is Associate and Manager of Site Development and Landscape Architecture in the engineering firm of Cameron Engineering & Associates, LLP. Kevin is a Registered Landscape Architect and site planner/land planner with more than 24 years of professional experience. Kevin is also LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council which promotes sustainable and innovative design. He previously has served as an adjunct professor at Polytechnic University in the Civil Engineering Department lecturing on Site Design and Land Planning matters.

Kevin has extensive master planning, land subdivision and site planning experience throughout Long Island. His work includes residential communities, institutional campuses, parks and recreation facilities and commercial/mixed-used developments.

Kevin also acts as a municipal consultant for the Village of Roslyn and has worked with the Villages of Plandome, Great Neck Plaza, and East Hills.

Kevin has served as president of the Design Professionals Coalition of Long Island (DPCLI); an organization comprised of architects, engineers, surveyors and landscape architects. He is also a Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

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