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Rockaway Park’s Nick Compagnone is riding 100 miles to raise money for “God’s Love We Deliver.”

After Superstorm Sandy hit the peninsula, then-college student Nick Compagnone worked with the Graybeards to help collect hundreds of thousands of dollars for the non-profit’s Sandy Relief fund. Almost five years later, the now up and coming real estate executive is still giving back to the community.

The Wave invited Compagnone to our offices to sit down for an interview, hoping to learn more about what he’s up to now.

Compagnone says he was about six years old when his family moved to Rockaway Park from Gravesend in Brooklyn.

“We moved right to the Rockaways,” said Compagnone. “I’ve lived in the same house ever since.”

After graduating from Xaverian High School, Compagnone went to Catholic University to study philosophy and psychology.

“I wanted to become a psychologist. That was kind of the goal,” said Compagnone. “[But] my father was a big real estate investor and when I was a kid, I would pick up the rent checks and properties that he owned.”

Compagnone says he realized soon after graduating he could use his education and his life experience to do something he was really good at.

“What I find is that the younger you are, you generalize what you want to be,” said Compagnone. “When you’re a kid, you want to be somebody special like a Superman or Batman like a superhero, right? Like when I was a kid, I wanted to be a horse jockey, and then I became six foot four.”

Laughing, Compagnone says you can be anything you want if you put your mind to it.

“Just know there are physical limitations to that mantra,” he chuckled.  “As I got older, I kind of particularized what I wanted to do as far as how I help people.

Compagnone is now working full-time with Douglas Elliman, the largest regional real estate company in New York.

“Me and my boss sat down, and she said ‘Where do you see yourself in the real estate game?’ and I said ‘well, I believe in my neighborhood,” said   Compagnone.  “I believe Rockaway is a neighborhood that really is kind of untouched as far as real estate value goes.  I felt a lot of local people feel a similar sentiment with the ferry coming in and a lot of people from South Brooklyn trying to come in the Belle Harbor area.”

Compagnone say there’s a sense of community that a lot of old school neighborhoods once had.

“There’s this sense of belonging because of that community and all of these things happen while you’re on the beach. So the setting is second to none.  Not to mention, that ferry came in. Paradise is less than an hour away from the city. That’s what I always say.”

When he’s not selling real estate or how much he loves Rockaway, Compagnone doing his part to give back to the community.

“Last year I started this Reinvent program that Douglas Elman has. We decided we were doing a 100 mile bike ride,” said Compagnone.  “We’re doing this for a charity called ‘God’s Love We Deliver.”

Compagnone says the charity started in 1980s.

“There was this one woman, her friend was very sick, very ill, she couldn’t leave the house. So, what she would do is we would pack, prepare, and cook and go deliver on a bicycle the meals to her friend’s house.  Thirty years later, they just delivered their 20 millionth meal.”

The next 100-mile bike ride is Oct.  21, says Compagnone.

“We are trying to raise as much funds as possible to go out and you know, every 10 dollars donated to the charity and so far, we have close to $100,000 raised for our charity. Every $10 donated is another meal for somebody in need. So if you donated $50, you fed somebody for a week,” said Compagnone.

The charity bike ride is affiliated with CrowdRise and if you wish to donate to help the cause, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/nicholascompagnone1

 

To hear the full interview with Compagnone, head over to The Wave’s podcast page  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ridingthewavewithmarkhealey/2017/10/13/nick-compagnone-is-riding-the-wave

When he’s not selling real estate or how much he loves Rockaway, Compagnone is giving back to the community. You can help by donating to his charity at www.crowdrise.com/nicholascompagnone1

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