Thomas Galo, 36

Shortly before the rehearsal dinner for his wedding, Thomas Galo stepped away to take a call.

It was an important client — Werwaiss Properties — with whom he had done a ton of business leasing up retail space throughout Long Island City, Queens. Midway through the conversation, the client realized just how pending Galo’s nuptials were.

“Why are you taking this call?” the client asked.

Galo was unfazed.

“No, it’s fine!” he said, and went straight back to business.

While one might think of this as the behavior of someone who never stops working, it actually sounds more like someone who genuinely loves the clientele — and what’s a wedding if not a moment to include the people you love?

Indeed, Galo loves talking about Fer, the southwest Chinese restaurant he recently found a place for at 41-10 29th Street. Or about Planet Fitness, which he just put into a 20,400-square-foot space at 29-22 Northern Boulevard. Or about the 21,000 square feet of leasing he did at 8 Court Square, which included tenants such as Wells Fargo, Warby Parker and Matsunori Handroll Bar. And, in the past year, he filled up 10,000 square feet at 27-01 Jackson Avenue with Hairmode and GoodMe Tea. On the landlord side, he has represented names like TF Cornerstone, Tishman Speyer and Brookfield Properties. 

Oh, and while 200,000 square feet of this — like the aforementioned deals — has taken place in Long Island City, Galo has done deals in retail hot spots in Manhattan and Brooklyn, too. (We’re going to try Comfortland at 92 Rivington Street, another Galo assignment, when this issue hits the presses.)

Galo wasn’t always destined for this. After Quinnipiac University, he wanted to go into television. He worked for David Letterman, “Law & Order SVU,” and he was a production assistant at “The View” for over two years, where he met his wife, Cristina. (They both decided a life in television wasn’t for them. Cristina Galo is now a lawyer, and they have a 19-month-old son named Leo.)

Galo’s father had been involved in real estate, so he thought he might give residential brokering a try before switching to commercial and winding up at Winick, which is now RTL. “About a year into it, I started closing more deals, and I said to myself, ‘I think I can do this.’ ”