Character List Bill Ackman is an activist hedge fund manager and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, which along with Winthrop Capital sought to partner with the Stuyvesant Town tenants. Justine Almada was one of the fi rst members of my city council staff, who served as my liaison to Stuyvesant Town and later became my chief of staff. Michael Ashner is the chairman and CEO of Winthrop Realty Trust, which along with Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital sought to partner with the Stuyvesant Town tenants. Charles Bagli is a New York Times reporter who closely covered the Stuyvesant Town story. Barry Blattman is vice-chair of Brookfi eld Asset Management, which partnered with the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association in making a bid to CWCapital in 2012. Rafael Cestero served as commissioner of the New York City Depart- ment of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) from 2009 to 2011 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. x Character List John Crotty is a resident, housing expert, and key behind-the- scenes player in the tenants’ effort to control their destiny in Stuyvesant Town. Al Doyle is a lifelong resident of Stuyvesant Town and was the longest-serving president of the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association, from 1989 to 2012. Soni Fink was the outspoken board member who was the communi- cations director of the Tenants Association for over a decade. Alicia Glen served as deputy mayor for economic development in the de Blasio administration from 2014 to 2019. Jon Gray is president and chief operating offi cer of the Blackstone Group and was a critical force behind the acquisition of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in 2015. Leonard Grunstein was a partner at Troutman Sanders who repre- sented the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Associa- tion in its bid to buy the property in 2006. Gerald Guterman is a real estate developer and investor. He is one of the largest multifamily apartment owner/operators and condomin- ium converters in the United States. Doug Harmon is a leading real estate broker who helped to negotiate the sale of Stuyvesant Town from CWCapital to Blackstone in 2015. David Iannarone is chief executive offi cer of CWCapital, the special servicer for Stuyvesant Town from 2010 to 2015. Meredith Kane is a partner at the New York law fi rm of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and represented the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. Maura Keaney served as deputy chief of staff to city council speaker Christine Quinn. David Kimball-Stanley served as my district offi ce chief of staff. Ilona Kramer served as my chief of staff. Andrew MacArthur served as a managing director of CWCapital Asset Management and was a prime antagonist of, and ultimately partner to, the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. John Marsh is a lifelong resident of Peter Cooper Village, one of the community’s best organizers, and served as president of the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association from 2012 to 2015. Nadeem Meghji is a senior managing director of the Blackstone Group and a chief negotiator of the 2015 deal with the tenants and the city. Character List xi Genevieve Michel served as my chief of staff. James Patchett served as chief of staff to New York City deputy mayor for economic development Alicia Glen. Adam Rose is copresident of Rose Associates, a property management fi rm, which managed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on and off for nearly a decade. Jim Roth served as a board member of the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. Alex Rubin is a managing director of Moelis & Company, who represented the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association. Steven Sanders grew up in Stuyvesant Town, worked for the local assemblyman Andrew Stein, and then succeeded him in the State Assembly. Sanders served as the assemblyman for Stuyvesant Town from 1978 to 2006. Alex Schmidt was a partner at Wolf Haldenstein, a law fi rm that rep- resented the tenants in the Roberts case, a class action against both MetLife and Tishman Speyer for illegally taking apartments out of rent stabilization. Zoe Segal-Reichlin is my wife. John Sheehy is a longtime resident of Peter Cooper Village and joined the board of the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association in 2010. Jen Shykula is an organizer at the public strategy fi rm Berlin Rosen. Charles Spetka is chief executive offi cer of CW Financial Services, which was the special servicer for Stuyvesant Town from 2010 to 2015. Andrew Sullivan served as the campaign manager of my 2005 city council campaign and became my fi rst chief of staff. Rob Speyer is president and chief executive offi cer of Tishman Speyer, which bought Stuyvesant Town in 2006 and defaulted on its loans in 2010. Susan Steinberg joined the board of the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association in 1998 and became its presi- dent in 2015. Marianna Vaidman Stone served as my senior policy adviser. Saving Stuyvesant Town .