Parks Chief Drew Both Salary and Consulting Fees
August 26, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The compensation and payments made to the driving force behind New York’s much-praised new High Line park represent “something of a rarity in the world of nonprofit compensation,” according to The New York Times.
Robert R. Hammond, president and executive director of the nonprofit Friends of the High Line, currently earns a $250,000 annual salary, making him one of the highest-paid leaders among the city’s 10 major parks conservancies. His company, 215 Argyle, was also paid $200,000 in 2005 and 2006 for fund-raising consulting, according to tax documents.
Mr. Hammond dissolved the firm several months before the June 2009 opening of the High Line along a former elevated railway line through Manhattan.
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