Housing and Buildings in 1966 and held the role until 1967, after which he was the consultant to Mayor John V. Lindsay on housing and real estate from 1967 to 1971. In August 1967, he joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and has been a partner ever since. He also joined the New York Post Company where he was general counsel from 1988 to 1993 and director from 1988 to 1992. Moerdler was chairman of the board of Bank Austria-Creditanstalt USA from 2000 to 2001. In December 2010, he was appointed by Governor David Paterson as Board Member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority where he has been since. In 2016, he was appointed to be on the MTA Bridges and Tunnels committee as chairman. He has strongly pushed against corruption in the MTA and has looked for ways to gain more revenue instead of cutting jobs. Furthermore, he has pushed for better labor relations in the MTA stating that the MTA has "the worst labor management". Controversies Moerdler has been accused of abusing his agency-issued parking placard to park illegally on non-business trips. He denied any wrongdoing when asked about an incident in 2019 in which a Cornell Club employee said Moerdler insisted that he has a right to park in a hotel loading zone. "I do stupid things," Moerdler said. "This is not one of them, I think." References 1934 births Living people Metropolitan Transportation Authority