He served as vice president of the City University Graduate School and as director of the CUNY Urban Academy for Management.
[8] In the public service arena, Macchiarola was appointed in 2003 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to serve as chair of the New York City Charter Revision Commission.
At Mayor Bloomberg's request, in 2003, Macchiarola mediated the strike of Local 802 Musicians Union against the League of American Theatres and Producers, which had shut down Broadway.
Since 2004, he was a member of the American Bar Association Committee on Law School Accreditation and was a consultant to and director of several corporations, and sat on the board of the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust.
Macchiarola served as special counsel to the New York Law firm of Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP.
[12] In 2014, the former Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, NY was renamed in his honor, "the Frank J. Macchiarola Educational Complex".