Category: Real Estate Families
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Black Tie and Building Permits: The Dursts Become Living Landmarks, and the Silversteins Take the Room Downtown
The Landmarks Conservancy will honor the Durst family at the Plaza on November 4. Lisa Silverstein, with her 95-year-old father in attendance, has been toasted at 7 World Trade Center and is next in line for REBNY’s humanitarian award. The real estate dynasties’ fall social season, from the public record.
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The Dynasties’ Ledger: What New York’s Building Families Gave Kathy Hochul, and What Both Parties Say It Bought
The Walentases, Dursts, LeFraks, Elghanayans and Speyers have written checks to the governor’s campaign and her party. Republicans say they got a pied-à-terre tax for their trouble, and the Hochul campaign says housing is getting built. A guide to the public record ten days before Election Day.
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The Rudins at One Hundred: Co-C.E.O.s, a Seat at 350 Park and a Very Good Year Downtown
The fourth generation of New York’s most clubbable landlords now runs the firm as a pair. Michael Rudin and Samantha Rudin Earls have closed a stake in Ken Griffin’s Park Avenue supertall, renewed a major law-firm tenant downtown and are converting offices to apartments. A study in how a family firm passes the keys.
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The Speyers Take Back the Chrysler Building, This Time for 150 Years
A quarter-century after Tishman Speyer first restored William Van Alen’s spire, the firm has signed a 150-year ground lease with Cooper Union, lined up PSP Investments and Bouwinvest behind it, and is reportedly courting Sony for a new tower on the Far West Side. In the Speyer family, Midtown runs in long cycles.
