Jeffrey Newman, Senior Vice President of Empire State Realty Trust, supervises leasing and operations for the REIT’s portfolio of properties located at the Stamford Transportation Center.
Mr. Newman has 43 years of commercial real estate experience, including nearly 30 years with Empire State Realty Trust and its predecessor legacy companies, during which he has concluded more than 10 MM square feet of office leasing transactions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Newman served as general counsel for commercial real estate development and operating companies in Fairfield County, Connecticut and as a real estate attorney in the Manhattan office of a national law firm. Mr. Newman served for several years on the Boards of Directors of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Real Estate Finance Association (REFA), the Stamford Partnership, and the March of Dimes Fairfield County Real Estate Breakfast Awards Committee, and is a past president of the New York City/Westchester and Fairfield Counties Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and a past Executive Committee member of the Westchester Chapter of Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA). He is a member of CoreNet, ULI, and REBNY, and has participated as a panelist or moderator at several real estate industry events, including programs and conferences sponsored by NAIOP, Bisnow, ULI, Real Estate Exchange, REFA, The Business Council of Westchester, RealShare, and Westchester and Fairfield Chapters of BOMA. A cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the law school at George Washington University, Mr. Newman is a member of both the NY State and CT bars, and formerly served on the Executive Committee to the Real Estate Section of the CT bar.
