The inaugural Bill Green Lecture will be presented by Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy and the Center for New York City Affairs on Wednesday, May 28, from 6-7:45 p.m., featuring Ronald Brownstein, political director of Atlantic Media Group (publisher of the Atlantic, National Journal, Congress Daily, and the Hotline) and author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America (Penguin Press, 2007).

The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with Jenny Backus, Democratic consultant (unaffiliated in the 2008 presidential race); David Chalian, political director of ABC News; and David Greenberg, professor of history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The lecture will take place in Swayduck Auditorium, Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue. Admission is free but reservations are required. Call 212.229.5418 or email milanoevents@newschool.edu.

The Bill Green Lecture Series memorializes Bill Green (1929-2002), who represented the East Side of Manhattan in Congress from 1978 to 1992. Rep. Green, a Republican, was an independent thinker who frequently crossed the aisle to collaborate on critical issues such as the environment, urban policy, and affordable housing. He served as a trustee of The New School and a board member of Milano. This lecture series pays tribute to his commitment to bipartisanship, and is generously funded by the Taconic Foundation on whose board he also served.