Bruce Menin

Menin is Chairman Emeritus of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. Under Menin’s leadership, the Museum acquired a building at the corner of Delancey and Orchard, which now houses the museum’s visitor center. Menin serves on the Board of StreetSquash, an afterschool academic support and physical fitness program in Harlem and Newark. He is also a Trustee of The Dalton School in New York City, and is currently Co-chair of its Centennial Capital Campaign and Chair of the Facilities Committee. Menin serves on the National Advisory Council for the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford University.

In 1999, he married Julie Jacobs in a Jewish ceremony at the Metropolitan Club. His wife went on to serve as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs and is now serving as the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment under New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She was also the Chairperson of Community Board 1 for three consecutive terms starting in 2005.

Menin led the restoration and preservation of multiple historic buildings, beginning with several projects in the Miami Beach Architectural District during the 1990s. In Los Angeles, Menin is leading the preservation and restoration of the Hollywood Palladium and sponsored the nomination of the 1940s Streamline Moderne venue as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Menin began his career as an associate at the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He then became a principal in Crescent Heights' real estate development companies, with his cousin Russell W. Galbut and Sonny Kahn, in 1989. Together, they have invested in over 35,000 residential and hotel units across the nation. From 1989 to 1994, Menin and his partners expanded their condominium conversion business to become "South Florida's most prolific condo company," with projects in both South Beach and Miami. In 1994, Menin was the company principal responsible for the first office to residential rental conversion in the Wall Street area of Lower Manhattan. In 1998, Menin oversaw the new construction condominium building in Los Angeles named The Remington.

Bruce A. Menin (born c. 1962) is an American businessman. He is a managing principal of Crescent Heights, a real estate development company specializing in the development, ownership, and operation of residential and mixed-use real estate projects in the United States. Crescent Heights is based in Miami Beach, Florida, with regional offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Menin was born in 1962 in Miami Beach, Florida, the son of Miriam (née Galbut) and Barry Menin. His father was a former stockbroker for Shearson Lehman Brothers and his mother was the owner of the Miami Beach Auto Tag Agency. Menin attended Miami Beach Sr. High School. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University where he received a Bachelor's degree in Government; holds a Master's degree in Economics (with honors) from the University of Sydney in Australia, which he attended as a Rotary Scholar; and received a Juris Doctor degree from the Northwestern University School of Law, where he was Editor of the Law Review.