Real Estate Mogul Makes NY Mayoral Bid

THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET Light on specifics Massey’s pitch to Jewish voters is that he will be an effective mayor for the 8.5 million residents of the city in which the Jewish community is an integral part

P aul Massey a millionaire real estate executive says he’s running to replace incumbent mayor Bill de Blasio because in his view the Democrat is incompetent and lazy.

“We have a complete lack of leadership and we are headed back to the ungovernable unmanageable years that preceded the 20 years of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg ” Massey one of two candidates running in the Republican primary for mayor told Mishpacha during a recent interview at his campaign office on the 12th floor of a commercial building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. “De Blasio is working part-time. He strolls in to work at noon three days a week and he campaigns out of a bar in Brooklyn. I think he’s incompetent lazy and very distracted. It seems like he doesn’t want the job. And in business you hire the wrong manager you get rid of him.”

The Republican mayoral hopeful was born in Boston moved to New York in 1983 and just five years later launched Massey Knakal Realty services which was sold to real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield in 2014 for $100 million. He now serves as chairman of the board of directors for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and sits on the board of directors for the New York Pops. He is also chairman emeritus of the board and devoted friend of the James Lenox House Association an organization that provides affordable housing to older New Yorkers.