He won the 1947 Gold Medal Award from The Hundred Year Association of New York.

[2] He was involved in the company's real estate investments: Parkchester, and Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village and Riverton Houses in Manhattan.

[3] These projects were racially segregated, which Ecker justified by saying, "If we brought Negroes into these developments, it would be to the detriment of the city, because it would depress all the surrounding property.”[4] In 1935, he was questioned by the Securities and Exchange Commission, about railroad investments.

[6] In 1941, the company invested in large garden apartment developments in San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

[8] His son Frederic W. Ecker (1896-1964) was his second successor (after Leroy A. Lincoln) as president and chairman of Metropolitan Life.