Kathryn Wylde and Steve Fulop

After more than four decades with the Partnership for New York City, Kathy Wylde announced last year that she would leave the organization. Steve Fulop, the outgoing mayor of Jersey City, will take the helm of the organization, which represents more than 300 businesses in New York City. Members include some of the most prominent builders and owners in the city, such as Vornado Realty Trust, SL Green Realty, Tishman Speyer, Related Companies and Blackstone.

Wylde joined the Partnership in 1982, serving as the founding CEO of the organization’s housing arm. She then took over the organization’s new economic development fund in 1995 and became CEO of the Partnership in 2000.

Most recently, Wylde and the Partnership advocated for sweeping zoning changes under the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity text amendment and the ballot measures that weakened City Council authority over certain land use actions.

In her final year at the helm, Wylde was busy laying the groundwork for the business community’s relationship with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Fulop took over after 12 years as mayor of New Jersey’s second most populous city. During his tenure, he oversaw an explosion of development in the city, luring some of the Big Apple’s biggest developers, including Silverstein Properties, Tishman Speyer and Related Companies, across the Hudson. Over the past few years, elected officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mamdani, have lamented resident flight to Jersey City as its housing production outpaced New York. The New Jersey city added nearly 26,000 housing units between 2010 and 2022 – more than triple the per capita production in the New York metropolitan area.