Gaming Facility Location Board

Professor Been, a member of the Board since October 4, 2022, is the Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, an Affiliated Professor of Public Policy of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Faculty Director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Professor Been returned to NYU following public service as Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development for the City of New York and Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development.

Professor Been, who has been on the faculty at NYU since 1990, focuses her scholarship on the intersection of land use, urban policy and housing. Professor Been has done extensive research on New York City’s land use patterns, inclusionary zoning, historic preservation, the interplay of community benefit agreements with land use practices, and on a variety of affordable housing and land use policies, including gentrification, mortgage foreclosure, racial and economic integration, and the effects of supportive housing developments on their neighbors. Professor Been also writes about environmental justice, the Fifth Amendment prohibition against the taking of property without just compensation, and international protections for property owners. Professor Been is the also the co-author of a leading land use casebook, Land Use Controls.

Professor Been holds a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar. She clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York and for Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Terryl Brown currently serves as Vice President and General Counsel at Pace University. Prior to taking her position at Pace, Brown served as Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs and Administration for the New York City Fire Department, where she oversaw operations and legal matters for a department comprised of 17,000 employees. Brown has also been Chief Ethics Officer and Counsel with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Acting Counsel to Governor David Paterson, First Assistant Counsel to Governor Eliot Spitzer, a Commissioner of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at the New York Power Authority, and a Partner at Harris Beach PLLC.

Brown graduated from Pace University with a bachelor’s degree in political science; earned a master’s from Villanova University; and a J.D. and M.B.A. from University of Pittsburgh. She completed an advanced finance program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Marion Phillips, III, serves as the Senior Vice President for Community Development and DEI at U.S. News & World Report. Prior to joining U.S. News, Phillips served as the Senior Vice President of Community Relations at New York State’s Empire State Development, managing development projects that included serving as the Chair of Queens West Development Corporation, President of the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation and Chief Administrative Officer of the New York Empowerment Zone Corporation. In addition, Phillips oversaw the Harlem Community Development Corporation as well as its Community Affairs department. Phillips earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communications from Lamar University and a Master of Divinity from New York Theological Seminary.

Greg Reimers is a retired real estate finance executive who recently completed a long real estate banking career as a Managing Director and Market Manager at JPMorgan Chase. He previously served as an Executive Vice President at The Bank of New York. In each role he was responsible for managing large teams of real estate professionals who provided the Bank’s real estate clients with commercial banking services and real estate related credit.

He is a 1983 graduate of Villanova University, holding a bachelor’s in economics.

Stuart Rabinowitz, appointed October 4, 2022, is Senior Counsel to Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP and focuses his practice on state and federal litigation, appellate litigation, constitutional law, civil rights law, voting rights law, education law, including higher education and labor relations and liaison with local, state and federal agencies and officers relating to economic development.

Mr. Rabinowitz served on the New York Gaming Facility Location Board in 2014-15.

Prior to joining the firm, for more than 50 years, Mr. Rabinowitz held numerous positions at Hofstra University, serving the last 20 years as University President. Prior to serving as President, he was a distinguished professor of law at the Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law, and was later named Dean of the law school, a position he held from 1989 through 2001. He retired from Hofstra in August 2021.

Under his leadership, Hofstra University received new regional, national and international visibility. He created several new schools, including the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, the Hofstra/Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, and the School of Health Professions and Human Services. He also founded the University’s National Center for Suburban Studies and the Center for Entrepreneurship. In recognition of Mr. Rabinowitz’s outstanding contributions to Hofstra University, it has named its Honors College after him and his wife Nancy.

Mr. Rabinowitz was also instrumental introducing Hofstra University to a national audience, bringing three consecutive presidential debates (2008: Obama/McCain, 2012: Obama/Romney, 2016: Trump/Clinton) to the Hofstra campus, making Hofstra the only university in the U.S. to have hosted that many consecutive presidential debates.

In addition to his experience and significant accomplishments at Hofstra University, Mr. Rabinowitz worked at Rosenman & Colin LLP for a number of years and as an Associate Professor in law at his Alma Mater, Columbia Law School.

Outside of Hofstra University, Mr. Rabinowitz has held numerous leadership positions. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Long Island Association and was Co-Vice Chair of the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council. He currently serves as a member of the New York State Commission of Continuing Legal Education. He has received many awards for his service, among them the Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, EOC; Distinguished Service in the Cause of Justice, Legal Aid Society; UJA Federation Leadership Award; and the Bar Association of Nassau County Proclamation for Outstanding Service to the legal profession and the community; the Conference of Jewish Organizations of Nassau County’s Community Service Award; the Alumni Association of the City College of New York’s 2005 Townsend Harris Medal; and Networking magazine’s David Award. He also received the Chief Executive Leadership Award from the CASE, District II, and was named to City and State New York’s Higher Education Power 50 and Long Island Power 100 lists in 2020. Claflin University presented Stuart with the degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.

Mr. Rabinowitz received a juris doctor, magna cum laude, from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a member of the board of editors of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He graduated from the City College of New York with honors, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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