PAUL MAKES LIFELONG DREAM COME TRUE FOR BELOVED CITY OFFICIAL STRICKEN WITH CANCER

Paul reached out to Susan Kupferman as she was dying of cancer, Mayor Bloomberg reveals

Paul-seen here in a June 8 concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn - fulfilled the lifelong dream of a highly respected city and MTA official with a simple phone call.

Paul made a lifelong dream come true for a dying Beatles fan who had been an admired official at City Hall.

One-fourth of the world’s greatest rock band reached out to Susan Kupferman when she was in the final stages of cancer, a grateful Mayor Bloomberg revealed Friday.

Paul called the terminally ill woman — who had left city government to become a top official at the MTA — when she was in the hospital.

Kupferman and McCartney’s wife — former MTA board member Nancy Shevell — were friends.“I wasn’t on the call but I’m telling you, Sir Paul called,” an impressed Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly appearance on John Gambling’s WOR-AM radio show.

Bloomberg — whose admiration for the rock legend is well-known — now has even more respect for McCartney.“He is a great guy,” Bloomberg said.

Kupferman’s still grieving family appreciated McCartney’s act of kindness.

 

Susan Kupferman, a top Bloomberg administration official who later worked at the MTA, received a call from Paul McCartney as she was dying of cancer, Mayor Bloomberg revealed Friday.

“When we were kids, we were all Beatles fans,” Kupferman’s sister — who asked not to be named — tearfully told the Daily News on Friday.

Kupferman spent her life serving the public in various roles in city and state government and at the MTA.

She worked as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations, as president of MTA Bridges and Tunnels and as the MTA’s chief operating officer.

At the time of her death, on June 26, Kupferman was senior adviser to the MTA’s chairman.

She was 54.

Her passing elicited an outpouring of remembrances.

“The MTA has lost a true professional in our industry, and her wisdom and counsel will be sorely missed,” MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast said in June.

And Bloomberg said at the time, “As anyone at City Hall could attest, she was as likable as she was dedicated and hard-working — which is to say she was well-loved and enormously respected.”