NYC Business Pulse
Daniel Park
Business & Finance Journalist
Daniel Park spent four years reading financial models before he understood what they were hiding. As a Bloomberg analyst fresh out of Wharton, he was trained to quantify — to translate messy corporate reality into clean spreadsheet rows. Then a hedge fund he was covering collapsed in 48 hours, erasing the retirement savings of 12,000 people, and Park watched the numbers he’d been studying for months reveal themselves as a work of fiction. He put down the terminal and picked up a notebook instead.
Park is the son of Korean immigrants who ran a dry-cleaning business in Flushing for two decades. He watched his parents navigate the bureaucracy of small-business ownership — the permits, the predatory lease renewals, the cash-flow crises that came every January — and developed an early, visceral sense of how financial systems could either serve or crush the people operating inside them. That background followed him to Wharton, to Bloomberg, and eventually into journalism.
After leaving Bloomberg, Park spent three years at a financial investigative unit at a regional newsroom, breaking stories on commercial real estate fraud, predatory small-business lending, and the offshore structures used by some of Manhattan’s largest landlords. His reporting led to a state attorney general inquiry and a front-page Wall Street Journal story that quoted his work. At 31, he was recruited to build out NYC Business Pulse’s market and finance coverage from the ground up.
“Every financial story is also a human story. I learned that at Bloomberg the hard way. The model says one thing; the people inside the model say something completely different. My job is to find those people.”
At NYC Business Pulse, Park covers Wall Street’s relationship with the city — how capital flows shape neighborhoods, how rate decisions ripple through Midtown office towers and Bronx bodegas alike, how the startup boom of the last decade has created both wealth and displacement. He writes with the fluency of someone who has read the filings and the patience of someone who knows that the most important information is rarely in the filings.
Areas of Coverage
- Wall Street & Financial Markets — What the markets are doing and why it matters to New Yorkers
- Commercial Real Estate — Office, retail, and the deals reshaping NYC’s skyline
- Small Business Economy — The financial reality behind Main Street NYC
- Corporate Accountability — Following the money when institutions fail people
- Startup Ecosystem — Venture capital, exits, and the companies you should know about