MARGIE FEINBERG

FEINBERG--Margie.

Margie Feinberg, deputy press secretary for the New York City Department of Education for 15 years, died on June 4, 2015 from breast cancer. She was 59 years old. She retired in 2014. She worked under five chancellors. During her tenure, she helped reporters after 9/11 understand where schools provided long-term counseling for student and staff throughout the city, and she also helped reporters navigate the uncharted waters of the early stages of mayoral control. She was dependable, available and dedicated to the city she loved. Her best memories, she would tell friends, was her time as a reporter for the New York Post from 1981-1990. She covered the transit beat and often remarked she covered anything that moves- cars, buses, subway, ferries, commuter trains. She wrote an exclusive story about the lack of engineers who maintain subway tracks that could lead to derailments if not properly handled, and another exclusive about gaps between subways and many platforms leading to missteps by riders. The problem still plagues the subway system. She enjoyed traveling and went to Europe often. She also went to Alaska but never got to see Sweden or Norway. She loved animals, especially a very special cocker spaniel named Rusty with White paws and neck- the epitome of regal- who was part of the family, the most important part, for 16 years. Margie leaves behind two dear friends, Pat Wilks Battle of Staten Island and Karen Minelli of Virginia. Her father, Jerry, whom she admired for his dry sense of humor and extraordinary intelligence, died in 1989 on the N/R line at Grand Central just a day after Margie, as a reporter, attended a press conference thee. Her mother, Alice, died in 2014 after a long-term career as an occupational therapist. Service Monday, June 8th, 12 noon, at "The Riverside," 76 St. and Amsterdam Ave.