Background
Gural was born to Jewish American real estate developer Aaron Gural and Harriet Feil. His mother died in 1945. His father was part owner of Newmark & Company and served as its chairman from 1957 to 1998.
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Jeffrey Gural
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He graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Career
He was raised in Woodmere, New York and has two sisters: Jane Gural Senders and Barbara Gural. In 1968, he worked for Morse-Diesel Construction Company where he was responsible for the supervision and construction of more than one million square feet of new office space. In 1972, he joined the family business managing its real estate assets (85 million square feet of real estate worth about $3 billion in 2010) and helping the growth of his family"s Manhattan brokerage firm Newmark Grubb which he has headed since 1978.
In 2001, they invested in family-owned national appraiser Koeppel Tener Real Estate Services, founded by Alfred J. Koeppel.
Like his father, his strategy has always been to hold onto real estate over the long term. He runs the harness racing track Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey as well as the racinos Tioga Downs in Nichols, New York and Vernon Downs in Vernon, New New York
Gural is committed to cleaning up the harness racing industry: all horses that run on his tracks are subject to blood and urine samples to test for illicit drugs and the training centers or farms can be inspected at any time by his investigator. Gural is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Times Square Business Improvement District, the Alliance of Resident Theatres New York, and the Eldridge Street Synagogue.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Board of New York, the United Jewish Appeal Federation, Eugene Language College, the United States.O.
New York City Outward Bound, the Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side, and the Settlement Housing Fund. He also serves as president of the New York Chapter of The Starlight Children"s Foundation. As chairman of "I Have a Dream-New York".
And is a co-sponsor of the Chelsea-Elliot "I Have a Dream" Project.
