Phil Reed (February 21, 1949 – November 6, 2008) was a New York City Council Member from 1998 to 2005, when term limits forced him out of office.
Prior to joining the Council, Reed worked for ten years as a sales representative for Otis Elevator Company in San Francisco.
Reed vigorously opposed Mayor Rudy Giuliani's plan to relocate the Museum of the City of New York from its location in East Harlem to the Tweed Courthouse in downtown Manhattan.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg ultimately scrapped this plan, moving the New York City Department of Education to the Tweed Courthouse instead.
Reed lived on the Upper West Side and died at age 59 on November 6, 2008, of complications of pneumonia that resulted from leukemia.