The team at Schuckman Realty

Kenneth Schuckman is President and CEO of Schuckman Realty Inc., the retail brokerage his father, Stanley Schuckman, founded in 1978. He has spent nearly 30 years in commercial real estate, all of it focused on supermarket-anchored shopping centers in the New York metro market.

Named Rising Star by Real Estate Weekly in 2005, Kenneth has since been a repeat CoStar Power Broker, most recently as a 2025 winner for Long Island Retail Lease Transactions, and earned Broker of the Year honors from 2011 through 2018. His Whole Foods anchor deal in Westbury was recognized as the top retail project of 2018. He is a member of X-Team Retail Advisors, a national network of independent retail brokerages.

Since becoming president in 2015, Kenneth has led the firm from its Hicksville headquarters through hundreds of transactions and millions of square feet on behalf of landlords, tenants, and institutional owners. National retailers and REITs turn to him on both sides of the table. Recent tenants include BJ’s Wholesale Club, Lidl, ShopRite, Whole Foods, Uncle Giuseppe’s, Burlington, CVS, Walgreens, Starbucks, Cumberland Farms, and Northwell Health.

In 2021 Kenneth co-founded BTF Capital Fund with longtime partner Aaron Malinsky. BTF acquires and repositions grocery-anchored centers, often in joint venture with multi-generational real estate families who want to keep a stake in the family legacy. The platform has completed more than $250 million in transactions, including a four-center, $130 million portfolio with Regency Centers and the Whitestone Shopping Center in Queens (acquired in July of 2026). Together with Firelight Management, the property management arm, the Schuckman platform covers brokerage, acquisition, repositioning, and operations under one roof.

Kenneth’s name in the industry stands for honesty, hard work, loyalty, and experience.

Stanley H. Schuckman, founder of Schuckman Realty, began his career in real estate in 1970 at the age of 24, working for a well-known real estate broker and developer. Within months, Mr. Schuckman began to execute agreements, and eventually, the building of several prominent retail chains. Those first experiences in the real estate brokerage business paved the path for a successful career that today spans 46 years, involving tens of millions of square feet of retail space across the tristate area.

During his early years, Mr. Schuckman closely studied the shopping center business, forming high-level expertise in market research, retail strategies, and architectural planning. His early mentors included the late Mr. David Muss, principal developer of Long Island’s Walt Whitman Mall; the late Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us; and Mr. Frank Castagna, owner and builder of Long Island’s Americana Shopping Center. In the late 1970s, Mr. Schuckman brought Channel Home Center to Long Island and convinced other major chains to follow suit. By the year 2000, he and his team completed transactions involving some 60 shopping centers, including 400 major tenant transactions with the likes of CVS, K-Mart, TJ Maxx, and many more.

Mr. Schuckman was honored for his real estate business achievement by his alma mater C W Post College, and honored for his charitable efforts by the American Jewish Committee, and The State of Israel Bonds. In 2013, Mr. Schuckman, a very proud father, turned over Schuckman Realty to his son Kenneth.