A Billionaire New York Landlord Who Doesn’t Trumpet His Wealth

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

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