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Thu, Oct 1st, 2015
A Billionaire New York Landlord Who Doesn’t Trumpet His Wealth
Friedland owns 20-plus buildings in tony Manhattan district; His son did `home run' real estate deal with Bill Ackman
This is how New York real estate billionaire Larry Friedland got his start: He was studying to be a pharmacist in the late 1950s when he met a guy named Nathan Miller.
“You could name any building in New York, give him the address, without a computer, without a land book, without anything, he would tell you the size of the building, who dropped it in 1929, who jumped off the roof, he was just incredible, ” Friedland said in the first interview of his 55-year career. “He really taught me the business.”
Read the full story at Bloomberg, by Caleb Melby
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- Real estate mogul’s 9 million Hamptons mansion destroyed by flames despite seven hour battle to extinguish the fire
- The 8, 300-square-foot Southampton home of Lawrence Friedland caught fire on Saturday afternoon, likely due to a grease fire
- Friedland runs Friedland Properties, which owns many buildings on Madison Avenue’s so-called ‘Gold Coast’ strip
- Friedland and his wife Marilyn were uninjured
Read the full story at Daily Mail
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