The Rockefeller Foundation awarded the inaugural Jane Jacobs Medal to Greenmarket co-founder Barry Benepe and Omar Freilla, founder of the Green Worker Cooperatives, and former program director at Sustainable South Bronx. Mr. Benepe was honored for his efforts to establish what has become the largest farmer’s market program in the U.S. An avid cyclist, Mr. Benepe also helped found Transportation Alternatives.TSTC worked with Mr. Freilla during his time at Sustainable South Bronx to remove the Sheridan Expressway, a redundant 1.5 mile highway in the South Bronx. The mission of his present organization, the Green Worker Cooperatives, is to establish a construction waste recycling program, to which he is dedicating his reward.The Rockefeller Foundation’s relationship with Jane Jacobs dates back to the 1950s when the foundation awarded her an $18,000 grant to research and write The Death and Life of Great