James Jeremy Barbera

JEREMY BARBERA

July 21, 1956 – June 17, 2025

Jeremy Barbera was born in Manhattan, New York City on July 21st, 1956 to James Barbera

and Laura Sosnoski Barbera. His father was from an Italian family, and his mother from a

Polish family. He grew up in Stuyvesant Town and attended St. Agnes High School and

New York University, showing a passion for physics. At a very young age, he started

working at the space agency NASA – many don’t know that NASA had an office on

Broadway and West 112th Street. He then went on to work in the administration of Lincoln

Center, Inc. As a great lover of the performing arts, he went on to work in marketing for the

performing arts for many years, including lecturing at NYU about arts marketing. Jeremy

then started a career as an entrepreneur and founded several companies over the

decades. A highlight for him was when he could hire his father to work alongside him in IT

in his company and those were the best years of their relationship. His latest venture was

in bio-tech, where he worked for years on developing a device that could detect cancer at

an early stage through analyzing a patient’s breath. He was so committed to seeing this

medical device through to help people and save lives and we hope his business colleagues

can finish what he started.

Jeremy was a passionate New Yorker who made the most of living here. He loved live

theater and live music and was a frequent attendee at Lincoln Center, Broadway, and

Madison Square Garden. An avid bicyclist, in the past 10 years he rode miles in giant loops

around Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. On his bicycling app on his phone he tracked

his routes, shared them with us daily, and reached a personal milestone of biking a total

distance of over 14,000 miles, a feat for which we were incredibly proud of him.

An animal-lover to the core, he loved his many dogs and cats over the years. He would

rescue lost animals so often that his former wife Claudia affectionately called their home

Barbera’s Rescue Service.

The loves of his life were his two daughters, Wynona and Chloe. He loved being a Dad. He

loved watching them grow up and going on fun adventures with them – favorite places

being the Central Park and Bronx Zoos, going to the movies, theater and Comic Con, and

going to the beach. Both girls studied dance and he delighted at their every recital, and

every performance from the school gym all the way to Madison Square Garden. He was so

very proud of them as they grew into adults.

In the last years of his life, Jeremy met his wife Alisa and they loved each other immensely

and were very happy together. She was such a help to him during the hard times of his

illness, for which the family is so grateful.

The family is stunned and heartbroken at the loss of Jeremy to the complications of

multiple spinal fusion surgeries. He is survived by his two daughters, Wynona Bryant

Barbera and Chloe Bryant Barbera, the mother of his children, Claudia Goddard, and his

wife Alisa Orlova.

The Wake, open to all, is on Monday evening June 23rd 2025 at Peter Jarema Funeral Home

in the East Village at 129 East 7th Street, NY, NY 10009 from 5pm to 8pm. Private burial to

follow at St. John’s Cemetery in Queens, New York.

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