Background
In the 1940s, his father and uncle, Max and Harry, joined the family business (renamed Koeppel & Koeppel) and shifted the companies geography to Manhattan, investing and managing both apartment and office towers.
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Alfred Koeppel
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Alfred graduated from the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School in Brooklyn, Trinity College in Hartford in 1954, and Brooklyn Law School.
Career
Koeppel was Jewish and born to a Jewish family, the youngest of six children born to Minnie and Max Koeppel. He had five siblings: Bevin Koeppel, Selma Koeppel Friedman, Geraldine Koeppel Adler, Grace Koeppel Gold, and Louise Koeppel Feldman. In 1954, Alfred joined the firm.
KTR provides brokerage, valuation, underwriting, environmental, engineering, construction loan monitoring and consulting services throughout the country with its main office in New York and other offices located in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles (in 2001, multinational real estate service firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank made a significant investment KTR).
Koeppel served as a trustee at Trinity College since 1985, as board chairman from 1990 to 1996, and as a board member until 2000. He also served as interim president of Trinity in 1994 and led a $175 million revitalization of the neighborhood surrounding the Trinity campus.
Trinity awarded him the Alumni Medal for Excellence and the Eigenbrodt Cup, and awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws. The Koeppel Social Center and the Koeppel Chair of Classical Studies are named in his honor.
He also served as a trustee and vice president of Temple Beth El of Great Neck, New York for 12 years, as a director of the United Community Fund of Great Neck from 1965 to 1971, and as treasurer of the Village of Kings Point, New York from 1973 to 1974.
Membership
He was a prominent benefactor of Hebrew Union College where he was a member of the Board of Overseers until his death.
