Save the Date for the 2026 Celebrating Home & Community Gala

Meet our Distinguished Honorees

Bruce A. Beal, Jr. is President and a partner of Related Companies.

Mr. Beal joined Related in 1995 and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day development process for projects across all asset classes throughout the country including acquisition, finance and construction activities. In addition, Mr. Beal oversees Related’s operating portfolio and Related Affordable, one of the largest privately held affordable housing development and preservationist groups in the country.

Mr. Beal is a trustee for New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the Citizens Budget Commission, and Riverdale Country School, a Pre-K through grade 12 independent school in New York City. He also serves on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Real Estate Council and REBNY’s Executive Committee, Board of Governors and Housing Committee. He previously served on the Board Directors of the Community Preservation Corporation and Friends of the High Line. Mr. Beal graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Frank J. Monterisi, Jr. is Executive Vice President at Related.

Since joining Related in 2007, Mr. Monterisi has been involved in the development of over 5,000 residential units, $5 Billion of project cost and 7 Million square feet of space in New York and Chicago. He has been involved in the development of projects such as Willet’s Point, Harborside 4, Hunter’s Point South, MiMA, Lantern House and Riverwalk in New York; and The Row, 400 Lake Shore Drive, 500 Lake Shore Drive, and 111 West Wacker Drive in Chicago.

He is a board member of the YMCA of Greater New York and the Long Island City Partnership. Prior to Related, he served as an Officer in the Marine Corps for six years. Mr. Monterisi resigned his commission as a Captain after serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2004. He is a graduate with Honor and Distinction with a Bachelor of Science in History from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and he received his Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Julie Menin was elected Speaker of the New York City Council on January 7, 2026.

An attorney and civic leader, Speaker Menin has more than three decades of experience in the public and private sectors. Speaker Menin has proudly represented District 5, which includes parts of the Upper East Side and all of Roosevelt Island, in the Council since January 2022.

During her first two terms, the Council passed her legislation to advance universal child care, create an Office of Healthcare Accountability to rein in excessive prices, ease burdens on small businesses by creating a one-shop-stop web portal for city licenses, codify the right to reproductive health care services, and more. At the same time, Speaker Menin has effectively addressed a full range of constituent issues, including sanitation and rat-mitigation concerns, street safety, unlicensed smoke shops, robust capital funding for district parks and schools, and access to low-cost internet for NYCHA residents.

Prior to her election to the City Council, Speaker Menin served as the city’s 2020 Census Director, achieving a historic result where New York finished first of all major cities. As Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs, she helped implement the Paid Sick Leave Law and launched a new Earned Income Tax Credit initiative that resulted in over $260 million being returned to low-income New Yorkers. In that role, she also spearheaded the creation of NYC Kids RISE, which has now grown college savings accounts totaling more than $44 million for 280,000 public school kindergarteners. Speaker Menin is also a former Commissioner of Media and Entertainment and former adjunct professor at Columbia University who taught on city government.

Speaker Menin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Columbia and received her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law. She resides in Yorkville with her husband and children.

Have questions or interested in learning more about the gala? Please reach out to Vanessa Miller, Assistant Vice President, Special Events and Community Engagement, via email or at (212) 389-9391.