GIANDO ON THE WATER — This picturesque event space with exquisite views of the Brooklyn waterfront was a setting for a special evening to honor David Lombino, the managing director of external affairs at Two Trees Management. Lombino received citations from the Office of Mayor Adams, City Councilman Lincoln Restler and Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Lombino also received a piece of original artwork from Marc Liebman depicting the Domino Sugar Factory, the site of one of Lombino’s most recent successes with Two Trees.

Hosting the event was former District Leader Steven Cohn, representing the historic Seneca Club, a democratic powerhouse formed in the 1890s to oppose a merger that would bring the City of Brooklyn into greater New York. (The 1897 vote approved the merger of all five boroughs, resulting in the incorporation of 1898.)

Also present to honor David Lombino were Jerry Esposito, current President of the Seneca Club, former Assemblymember Joseph Lentol, one of the most influential and long-serving state assemblymen ever to serve in Brooklyn, and ‘Rae’ Vegara, First Lady of the Seneca Club.

Lombino, a longtime resident of Brooklyn Heights, remains very active in all aspects of the North Brooklyn community. A former executive vice president of external affairs for the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), Lombino served the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Also a former city editor of the New York Sun newspaper and a native New Yorker, Lombino holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Columbia University and a BA from Williams College. He has two daughters, eight and ten.

Today, he oversees the development pipeline for Two Trees Management and as well oversees its government and community liaison. He has worked closely with the communities in which Two Trees’ projects are based, delivering hundreds of much-needed affordable housing units and countless innovative office spaces.