Bruce Ratner graduated from Harvard College in 1967, and earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia University in 1970.
12 Facts About Bruce Ratner
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From 1974 to 1978, Bruce Ratner taught at NYU's law school.
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Bruce Ratner served as Consumer of Public Affairs for 4 years beginning in 1978.
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Bruce Ratner developed the $1 billion complex of nine buildings in downtown Brooklyn called MetroTech.
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Bruce Ratner supervised the building of a 393,000 square-foot shopping mall at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in the 1990s.
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Bruce Ratner first became owner of the Nets when he headed an ownership group that purchased the franchise from YankeeNets for $300 million.
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Bruce Ratner's group beat out an ownership group led by Charles Kushner and former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine.
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Bruce Ratner relocated the Nets to New York City, specifically to build an arena in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn even though there was desire to keep them in New Jersey and strong neighborhood protests to keep them out of Brooklyn.
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Bruce Ratner serves on a number of boards including the Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lang Lang International Music Foundation, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage as chairman of its trustees board.
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Bruce Ratner was chairman of the board and now chairman emeritus of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's board of trustees.
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In 2016, Bruce Ratner established the Center for Early Detection of Cancer in memory of his brother, Michael Bruce Ratner.
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Bruce Ratner holds honorary degrees from Brooklyn College, Medgar Evers College, Pratt Institute, and Long Island University.