Remembering Jacqueline Beymer Lebenthal

In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev’s cavalcade screeched to a halt at 57th and Lexington so the Soviet leader could wave at a comely pedestrian: Jacqueline Beymer Lebenthal.

“When she told me, it was the only time she acknowledged that she just might be pretty,” said her husband, James Lebenthal, chairman emeritus  of the eponymous municipal bond Read More

The Booster

At 73, master municipal-bond seller Jim Lebenthal was close to giving it all up, reports jason gay, to make little videos promoting the city he loved. But when the towers on which he’d sold thousands of investors went down, how could he go on?

Jim Lebenthal didn’t have to be in the office anymore. They Read More