The Co-ops has a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of 7 shareholders who are elected for two-year terms.

Each of them has responsibility for an area of Co-op life. Officers are elected by the Board from current Board membership.

Here is the 2024 Board:

 
 

MARK KORNSPAN
President

I have served on the Board of Directors for 30 years. I served as Treasurer for 16 years and now serve as President.

I am a tax accountant with a diverse clientele in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. I recently moved my home to South Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Conrad

CONRAD CARDINALE
Treasurer
Chairman, Finance Committee

I have been a resident shareholder of the Co-ops since April 2005, and have served on the Board since 2007. I currently serve as Treasurer and have held the position since 2011.

My background is with the financial services industry where I am the CFO for global Broker Dealer and Custody Operations for a major investment bank. I am on the Board of Directors for my primary residence in Brooklyn Heights, where I have served as Treasurer since 2007.

MICHAEL NARDI
SECRETARY
GROUNDS COMMITTEE

I have been a shareholder with my husband, Eugene Lefkowitz, since 1989. I retired from the faculty of a major New York City medical school in 2015.  

I have served on the Board of Directors since 1992, serving as Chairman of the Grounds Committee, the House Rules Committee, the Membership Committee, President for 8 years, Fire and Energy Committee and now back to the Grounds Committee.

Rob

ROB WALLNER
Chairman, Maintenance Committee

My husband Bob Thurber and I have been in the Co-ops since 1987.

My career was managing the business end of theatrical productions. Prior to that, I considered becoming an architect and spent a year developing Model Cities housing in Philadelphia.  I’ve enjoyed the nuts and bolts of construction ever since and examining our physical plant is an extension of that interest.
 
Bob and I live on the Upper West Side.

JONATHAN F. LEWIS
Chairman, MEMBERSHIP Committee
Chairman, CIVILITY Committee

I have been in the Co-ops since 2020 and a member of the Board since 2022. I am a relative newcomer to the Pines, having first rented in 2017. 

I am a lawyer at a large law firm in New York City, with a practice that focuses on the human resource aspects of corporate transactions.  When not in the Pines, my husband Matt and I live in Dumbo. 

NICK LUGO
VICE PRESIDENT

I have been a resident shareholder since 2022.

I am a Broadway General Manager, specializing in national tours of Tony Award-winning musicals. A native New Yorker, I was born in Chelsea, grew up in Brooklyn, and now reside on the Upper West Side. I am a member of The Broadway League, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, and co-founder and Vice President of Beyond the Stage Door.

MATTHEW mcCONNELL

My husband Dane and I have been shareholders in the Co-ops since 2022. 

I am a Principal at ghSMART, where I advise investors, boards, and corporate clients on their most pressing leadership challenges, including leadership assessment, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness. I was born and raised in the Boston area and currently reside in the West Village.