In this June 23, 2008, file photo, members of the Tisch family, from left, Wilma, Andrew, Joan, James, and Jonathan Tisch, attend the opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Joan Tisch, a noted philanthropist and the widow of former New York Giants co-owner Bob Tisch, has died at 90. The NFL football team said she died Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, after a brief illness but did not give a cause. Photo Credit: AP / MARK LENNIHAN
Joan Tisch, matriarch of the family that owns half of the NFL’s New York Giants and one of New York City’s foremost philanthropists, died on Thursday morning after a brief illness.