He subsequently was New York State Residential Rent Control Commissioner, founded a law firm, and was chairman of the Department of Political Science at Queens College for a decade.
[1] Cunningham died, and McGoldrick was appointed by Mayor La Guardia to take his place.
[1] But when La Guardia ran for a second term in 1937, McGoldrick joined him in office as Comptroller, and the same happened four years later.
[8][1] In 1958, he joined the Queens College faculty, where he spent a decade as chairman of the Department of Political Science.
[1] McGoldrick was the author of The Law and Practice of Municipal Home Rule 1916‐1930 and Building Regulation in New York City, and co‐author with R. E. and M. P. Keohane of Government in Action.