The Real Deal New York

Seth Pinsky specializes in finding new investment opportunities for RXR Realty, one of the most active privately held real estate investment firms in the New York City area. This work often involves scoping out areas others have missed or are missing, a skill Pinsky honed in government.

Before joining RXR, Pinsky directed Mayor Michael Bloombergs special initiative for rebuilding and resiliency, an approximately $20 billion effort to combat the damage from Superstorm Sandy in late 2012.

Before that, he worked for many years at the citys Economic Development Corp., including four years as its president. The EDC often worked with private developers on building up oft-neglected areas of New York and bolstering the citys infrastructure. Some of the projects Pinsky worked on at the EDC include the new Yankee Stadium, Willets Point in Queens, the redevelopment of Brooklyns Coney Island and the World Trade Center.

Prior to the EDC, Pinsky was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb, Steen Hamilton and a financial analyst at James D. Wolfensohn Inc.

Pinsky earned an ancient-history degree from Columbia and a law degree from Harvard. He lives in Brooklyn.  -TA