 Gilder joined forces with George Soros in revitalizing Central Park, which galvanized the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, of which he was a trustee.Gilder was born in Manhattan on May 31, 1932, a fifth-generation New Yorker of Bohemian Jewish descent.His father, Richard Sr., worked as a property manager for a real estate company; his mother, Jane (Moyse), was a housewife.