Just so you know Beth, I will NEVER forget you. How could I? There has never been anyone like you, and I don't there ever will be. New york belonged to you. I talk to you often. Miss you and love endures xo Carol Navin ❣️💟💌

Beth, I think of you often. I am still a bit shocked that I won't ever see  you or speak to you. I talk to you many times a week. I also  hear your voice, see your smile and hear your laugh. Peace be with you my friend  xo Carol

Dear Beth,
In remembering you, I think of the phone calls out of the blue asking what I was up to and telling me about her adventures.  We spoke about politics, the real estate market, the latest gossip, our feelings.
Beth wore her emotions on the outside and I can recall her looking at me and I looking at her with both of us tearing up in a restaurant.  Beth will always be with me as I journey through life.   When I think of Beth, I smile.

Today is the one year anniversary since we lost our dear Beth.  I thought about her today and SO wanted to call her...as I have done every single day since her passing last year.  Did everyone read the article in the Times about Ye and the Gap?  Oh, that is the kind of thing that Beth would have loved to weigh in on...and she would have done it so intelligently...!

Still pains me that Bev never got her proper "send off" in the NYT''s.  She loved her family...

Let us never forget how absolutely fabulous she was...

Cheryl

Beth, you are a part of my memories forever. I think of you  so often.
To say you were unique and special sounds so trite . You were one of  a kind.  In the best way!

I miss you so very much.  Time  really dose not  heal, it just gets more real.  
My hope is that you are at peace my friend , and if there is a paradise you are there.  Big Hugs ,and Comfort. I love ya, Carol Navin




Beth would call me out of the blue and we’d get right into it, as if we were simply continuing an ongoing conversation. I am sure anyone overhearing us would hardly be able to keep up. It was rapid fire, wild and loud, and then soft and serious, broken by fits of laughter.  We spanned the globe of topics and emotions.   She always remembered my birthday, just after hers, and so we’d always speak at least twice in July.  Like Norma’s, she ended each and every email with ‘Love, Beth’ or ‘Love and joy’ during the holidays! 

She always wanted to know what my son was up to, and no matter what I told her, she thought it was simply fantastic…and would explain why! She’d share memories from her childhood and reassure me that I was doing it all right when it came to motherhood. She always mentioned my wonderful Aunt Donna and how delighted she was that we were family. 

She filled me to the brim each and every time we spoke.  She was ethereal, beautiful, brilliant- thoughtful and kind. 

I picked up the phone to call her after not hearing back and, again there was no answer. I soon realized we’d need to find another way to check in and I am so very heartbroken. What an incredible woman to know and to have in your corner!

Beth, I cherish our sweet friendship always.

Love, Michele  


Beth would email me all the time just to say hello to keep in touch.  Every email ended with, Love Beth.  She was a very thoughtful person…always worried about everyone else.  How I miss hearing from her.  She recently sent me an article from The NY Times regarding the old Metropolitan Opera because we and our families shared the love of opera.
We worked together for many years at New Spectrum Realty where we were all a happy family… still cannot believe you’re gone…but your lively upbeat spirit lives on.
Rest well my dear friend…. Until we meet again, rest in heavenly peace!  Love,  Norma

The expression that comes to mind is “Sui Generus” . There is simply no one I have ever met who came close to Beth in kindness and generosity. Here’s an example. Every few weeks she would mail me a magazine or newspaper article on retail tenants doing well around the country or world. She would underline the name and insert the phone number if she found it. Think about her intense loyalty -cutting out the article,  highlighting it, then going to a post office and mailing it. Not an e- mail, call or fax which would have been infinitely easier, Not our Bethy!! All by hand. Who else on the face of this earth was so thoughtful and giving. No one in my life.
I miss her so much.



Beth,  I met working at New Spectrum Real Estate. 
Beth was an angel from above. She was fun and had a fabulous personality. 
It truly is a major loss for all who knew her. She passed too young.
I had nicknamed her "Bethy Baby".  
We lost an incredible human being this summer. 
I hope Beth rests in Peace. 
She fought to the very end, always positive.

Beth, we will always love your sweet gentle smile and the kindest person ever.

Love,

Howard S. Aaron xox

I met Beth the 2nd year of my moving to New york from Virgina.  We worked together at Henri Bendels shoe department, "Shoe Biz". " We were part of a friend group  much like a sorority .  The two of us would flit around the first floor every chance we got to shop and play in the other boutiques. They said we were like the mice from Beatrice Potter books. We loved our job selling and loved shopping even more.  She kept in touch with all of the girls over the last 40 years.  Never missed an opportunity to reconnect, by phone, text, or ,her now infamous post cards. I have learned  so much about the human spirit through her life and now that she is gone.  I cant put that in place.  She was the most energetic, curious, open, positive person i have ever known. Beth, you are missed   I  don't know how this city will go on without you. You are all around us now.  You are so Loved. xo Carol Navin



It has now been one week since we all gathered to honor Beth at Riverside Memorial.  Such a beautiful ceremony.  I know that Beth would have loved it...she would have loved the majestic Neo-French Rennaisance-style chapel because Beth loved beauty and history and design and was a Francophile at heart, having been born on Bastille Day!

Beth was my tennis partner and best friend for more than 25 years. When describing her to others, I would always say "Beth would give you the shirt off her back...and then some."  She always amazed me.  She had so much energy...so much joie de vivre!  Everyday was an adventure to her.  A routine journey on the crosstown bus or a cup of tea at her favorite coffee shop would inevitably result in Beth meeting someone fascinating...almost always, that stranger was actually connected to some person, place or thing in Beth's life. She would call and tell me about her journey and would be so excited and I will miss hearing her delightful stories SO much.

Beth loved so many things...the simple pleasures of life, which she embraced with such gusto!   The New York Times (which she read every single day and it had to be the paper version!), The New Yorker Magazine, a really chewy bagel, a walk in Central Park, the skyline of our great City and all the nooks and crannies and side streets she knew like the back of her hand, cheap but delicious Chinese food at The Cottage, and fashion--from high-end stuff we would admire but couldn't afford, to the amazing bargains she would find at Housing Works.  

Beth--with beautiful procelain skin like her mother's--shunned the sun.  We'd be hitting tennis balls at 7 am, and she'd be slathered with sunscreen.  I believe Beth did not need the sun, because everywhere she went SHE BROUGHT LIGHT!  A brilliance that guided her on her adventures, and brought people to her like flies to a flame.

Beth, I will never forget your light. Thank you for being such an important part of my life.  Love u always..



8-4-21: I am deeply saddened to learn of her passing….simply too young.  I immediately was able to call forth memories of her from so long ago and distinctly remember her wide, bright smiles. And her kindness to me in conversations and passing throughout high school years.  My deepest condolences and may she Rest In Peace and her memories live on in the hearts of her family and friends.

Beth and Mitch at a performance of Sam Shepard's "HEARTLESS" in NYC September, 1st, 2012 at the Signature Theatre.

I knew Beth for about 10 years, but it seems longer… 
She was one of those timeless old souls who was a joy to be around. We met for about five years sporadically on special occasions - double dates in NYC with our other halves Mitch & Michael. We met for dinners and even took in a show. 

However, even after we all no longer met, when her relationship changed, she was one to always keep in touch. Never a birthday, holiday, or season went by without a sweet note from Beth.

She had such a great sense of humor, and a refreshing yet eccentric & clever way about her - she was a delight and a gift to this world. I can’t begin to explain how sad I am that she left way too early taking a little light this world so needs to lift it’s spirits. You are Loved & will be missed dear Friend!

Beth was a woman of many nostalgic stories about New York. She was my neighbor and friend for so many years. I’m lucky to have known her. 
I will always remember her.
Jane

“My friend from the Dumbest Private School in Manhattan.”
How many of you have heard that one? It used to make me cringe, but today— I wear that title gladly.
Because the year I met her, Beth saved me from the demons in my home. In fact, we were a match made in heaven. Neither of us could bring the other home to meet our mothers.  

Her silliness “in an environment devoid of that” as she used to say, kept me sane. Just look at some of the cards Beth sent me. One’s a sponge, another a puzzle. This one’s a paper doll chain of cockroaches. And this one a German postcard where the woman's hairy armpit is actual fur!  

Her silliness really taught me how to package my mom’s OCD, and my grandmother’s “these cookies are only for you!”) all as a comedy routine.  On the fly we were hilarious. Ill prepared for class one day, we switched our topic to “Ghosts” and gave the presentation, belly’s aching from laughter, from under our teacher’s desk. In the back row of Chinese Club, we invented an alternate universe called Digestville with characters like Bernie Bagel and Otto Orange. 

Our treehouse was Temple Emanuel.

We were both mad about resale shops and didn’t think twice slipping into clothes worn by others. Last night, I found her life’s philosophy in a letter she wrote me in 1975,  my first year of college:

“Find something to do which involves helping others. Keep doing it and do not try to be what you are not.”

That makes total sense. Beth had a lifelong dread of being selfish and materialistic in light of the world’s pain. Meanwhile, I was always coveting her jewelry and accessories. She’d say, “Here, take it.” And damn it, once I got home and stood in front of the mirror, they’d always look on me so meh. 

So thank you, Bethie.  The key to eternal happiness is immaturity. May every day be your Happy Birthday.


I met Beth from ancestry. We were cousins and we did not know it till 2018. We did not know each other for very long time but we clicked. She was a beautiful person and I am so sorry that I did not get to know her longer. She was my cousin from my grandmothers side of the family.  

RIP BETH YOU WILL BE MISSED. 😍😍

Carole

Beth and I have been the closest of friends for 45 years. Our friendship began when we worked together at Shoe Biz at Henri Bendel. What I loved about Beth was her creativity, intelligence, her off beat sense of humor and her readiness to laugh. We were there for each other in good times and bad. While I am so deeply saddened by the loss of Beth, I have so many wonderful memories that will endure and be with me forever. Beth I love you so much.

Mary Jane Mulhern

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Beth R. Greenwald

July 14, 1956 – July 28, 2021

Riverside Memorial Chapel

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