Joseph McCluskey, Jr. joins Murray Hill Properties as senior managing director. Prior to Murray Hill Properties, McCluskey was with Helmsley-Spear for over two decades, where he negotiated the sales of dozens of investment properties and hundreds of commercial leases. Among the transactions were the $305 million sale of 12 East 49 Street (Tower 49) to the Kato Kagaku Corp which at $500 per s/f was then the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan office building. He also arranged the condominium conversion and sale of 465 Park Avenue (Ritz Tower) to Mitsukoshi which earned him the prestigious Real Estate Board of New York “Robert T. Lawrence Award” for most ingenious transaction of the year. In addition to his sales and leasing transaction activities, Joe also managed Helmsley-Spear’s full service Midtown South branch office for more than 12 years supervising a staff of over fifty professionals and support staff. McCluskey has maintained significant community involvement having served for over ten years on Manhattan Community Planning Board Five as Chairman of the transportation committee which reviews and approves all New York City governmental actions regarding any proposed changes to Manhattan's critical transportation systems. Joe was chairman of the Young Men's / Women's Real Estate Association and was honored with the "Young Man of the Year Award". He spent fifteen years on the Board of the 23rd Street Association including two years as president and two years as chairman. McCluskey, a native New Yorker, attended Syracuse University where he attained a bachelor of science and Pace University where he earned his master's in Business Administration.