Pursuits
Scene Last Night: Loeb, Jeb Bush, Jimmy Lee, Greenblatt
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“Never go on after a cute kid,” Dan Loeb said last night in front of 750 guests packed into Cipriani 42nd Street (twice the number assembled last year at the Mandarin Oriental) for the second annual Success Academy Charter Schools benefit.
The Third Point LLC hedge-funder and chairman of the Success Academy board spoke after a presentation from an exuberant fifth-grader. She attends the Success Academy Harlem Central Middle School, one of the three Success institutions whose grant of free space was withdrawn by Mayor Bill de Blasio in February and reinstated over the weekend.