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Jon Ledecky
Jonathan Joseph Ledecky (born February 9, 1958) is an American businessman and a co-owner of the NHL team New York Islanders and their AHL affiliate Bridgeport Islanders. His niece is multiple Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky. Biography Ledecky was born in 1958 in New York City, the son of a Czechoslovakian immigrant who came to America eleven years prior to study English at Rutgers University. Growing up in Queens and Brooklyn, he became a New York Yankees fan. After moving in 1972 to Greenwich, Connecticut, Ledecky attended Greenwich High School, with extracurricular work on his school paper that would have earned Ledecky a journalism scholarship at Vanderbilt University if his father had not insisted on his son attending an Ivy League school. Ledecky thus pursued business administration at Harvard University, continuing his reporter work at ''The Harvard Crimson'' and college radio station WHRB. Ledecky earned his bachelor's degree in 1979 and completed a Master o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
