Besides his daughter Kate , the New York City cultural affairs commissioner , Mr. Levin is survived by his wife , the former Phyllis Schwalbe , the author , as Phyllis Lee Levin , of '' Edith and Woodrow : The Wilson White House '' -LRB- Scribner , 2001 -RRB- ; a sister , Jeanne Brenner of Jamaica Plain , Mass . ; a daughter , Emme Deland of Manhattan ; two sons , John , of Brooklyn , and Peter , of Manhattan ; and seven grandchildren .