2019 Benefit Honorees

As Executive Director, Angela is dedicated to promotion of New York City and civic dialogue through the expansion and evolution of ABNY’s membership, as well as ABNY’s signature power breakfasts.

Prior to joining ABNY, Angela served as Senior Vice President for Management Services and Government Affairs at the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) where she was responsible for REBNY’s commercial and residential Management Divisions and the lead on building code, sustainability and energy, and federal issues that impact New York City real estate. Ms. Pinsky is the former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayors of Economic Development Robert C. Lieber and Daniel L. Doctoroff. In her former role, she worked on economic development initiatives including long-term planning and sustainability, urban development, and government technology.

Ms. Pinsky holds a B.A. in Public Health, Natural Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s in Urban Planning from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.

She currently lives with her husband, Seth, and children, Theo and Amelia, in Park Slope.

Seth Pinsky
RXR Realty, Executive Vice President

Seth serves as Executive Vice President and Investment Manager of the RXR Metropolitan Emerging Market Strategy. In this role, Pinsky is leading RXR’s efforts to invest in “emerging opportunities” in New York City and the surrounding Tri-State region. In connection with this, RXR often partners with governments and mission-driven organizations, focusing on real estate and infrastructure asset classes and geographic regions that have historically been characterized by underinvestment, but that have strong underlying fundamentals.

Prior to joining RXR, Seth served as Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, which developed a $20 billion plan to help neighborhoods stricken by Hurricane Sandy to rebuild smarter and stronger and to protect critical citywide systems and infrastructure from the likely impacts of climate change in coming decades.

Seth also served as President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), a position to which he was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2008, after joining the agency in 2003 as a vice president. During his tenure, NYCEDC became an international leader in the field of economic development, focusing both on transforming the city’s underlying economy and investing in its critical infrastructure.

While at NYCEDC, Seth served as a lead negotiator on behalf of New York City for projects ranging from Yankee Stadium and Citifield, to the World Trade Center, to the acquisition of Hunters Point South in Queens, the largest middle-income housing development in the City since Starrett City.

Among the initiatives advanced by NYCEDC under Seth’s leadership were the redevelopment of Willets Point in Queens, Coney Island in Brooklyn, the Homeport in Staten Island, and the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, as well as the creation of a major new bioscience research park on City-owned land, north of Bellevue Hospital. Under Seth, NYCEDC also managed the construction of the first two phases of the High Line in Manhattan, launched a new East River Ferry service connecting Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

In the area of economic modernization, under Seth, NYCEDC created the Center for Economic Transformation (CET), which, in addition to launching a network of business incubators across the City that, at the time of Seth’s departure, housed more than 600 companies, developed and oversaw the Bloomberg Administration’s international Applied Sciences NYC competition. The Applied Sciences competition has resulted in a significant expansion of Columbia University’s engineering school, as well as the creation of a new engineering institute in Downtown Brooklyn led by NYU that includes CUNY, Carnegie Mellon University and others. It has also resulted in the creation of the first phase of a $2 billion engineering campus on Roosevelt Island, developed by Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Prior to joining the NYCEDC, Pinsky was an associate at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in the Real Estate practice and a financial analyst at James D. Wolfensohn Inc. He is a graduate of Columbia College, where he majored in Ancient History, and of Harvard Law School, and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Seth serves on the Boards of the Long Island City Partnership, the New York Chapter of the American Technion Society, the Downtown Alliance and the Regional Plan Association and on the Advisory Committee of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.

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