Paul Massey for 2017 - 2021

Paul Massey is the leader New York City needs to bring integrity back to our government and turn our city around.

Paul Massey is the leader New York City needs to bring integrity back to our government and turn our city around.

Paul Massey is running for mayor to deliver leadership that works for the people of New York City.

A proven leader and entrepreneur, Paul built a successful real estate business with operations in every neighborhood in New York City’s five boroughs. As mayor, he will govern as a problem solver and as a uniter, with a relentless focus on New Yorkers’ most pressing quality of life concerns: affordable housing, quality schools, good jobs and safe streets.

Paul has the vision and experience to deliver on these priorities, having co-founded one of the nation’s largest privately-owned commercial property brokerage firms. He launched Massey Knakal Realty services in 1988, with the company eventually employing hundreds of people and responsible for one-third of all building sales in New York City. Massey Knakal was ranked New York’s #1 investment sales firm in volume for 14 consecutive years and was sold to Cushman & Wakefield in 2014.

 

While leading Massey Knakal, Paul built trust and relationships with citizens and civic leaders in every corner of New York City, from Bed Stuy and Borough Park to Flushing and the South Shore. As mayor, he will be a leader for all New Yorkers and an advocate for this City as the world’s laboratory for urban innovation; a place where people of diverse talents come together to create, to build and to find new solutions to old problems.

An amateur boxer who has also run five marathons, Paul has always been a tireless worker at his company—where he arrived at his desk every morning at 6:45—and in his community. He serves as President of NYC Pops and as Chairman of the Board of New York City’s Tenement Museum, which tells the story of thousands of ethnically diverse immigrant families who called a single Orchard Street walk up building home.

He is also the Chairman Emeritus of the James Lenox House Association, an organization that provides affordable housing to older New Yorkers, and an active board member of his old high school.

Paul received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Colgate University in 1982 and moved to New York City in the spring of 1983.

He has been married to his wife Gretchen for 28 years. They have three grown children, PJ, Sarah, and Greta.