Daily News | Hillel Levinson, former Philadelphia managing director, longtime attorney, businessman, and track star, has died at 86
Hillel Levinson, 86, of Philadelphia, former city managing director, longtime attorney, business executive, and track star, died Monday, March 20, at Lankenau Medical Center of complications after a fall and brain surgery.
New recreation centers were opened during his tenure, mounted police returned to the streets, and Pope John Paul II visited in 1979. He directed many snowstorm responses and often said that one of his proudest achievements was declining to build a crosstown highway that would have disrupted the neighborhoods around South Street.in 2006. “It’s hard to walk away from something you love so much.
In 2005, he switched parties to run as a Republican against Democrat Alan Butkovitz for city controller. He was endorsed by the Daily News for his previous city government experience, but Butkovitz won the election. Mr. Levinson preached fiscal responsibility in that campaign, telling the Daily News: “I want to lock the barn door before the horse is gone. We should head off problems early, rather than having to chase someone later for money they didn’t deserve.”As managing director in 1975, Mr.
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