Henry H. Minskoff | |
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Born | May 27, 1911 |
Died | August 13, 1984 New York City, New York | (aged 73)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | real estate developer |
Spouse | Marjorie Folgeman |
Children | James Minskoff Sterling Alan Minskoff Jean Minskoff Grant |
Parent(s) | Sam and Esther Minskoff |
Henry H. Minskoff (May 27, 1911 – August 13, 1984) was an American real estate developer. [1] [2]
Minskoff was born to a Jewish family in New York City [1] the second of six children of Sam Minskoff and Esther Kernstein Minskoff, [3] immigrants from Russia and Poland, respectively. He had four brothers: Leo, Jerome, Myron and Walter and one sister, Muriel. [1] He grew up in the Bronx. [4] He graduated from Lehigh University and then joined his father's real estate business he had founded in 1908. [1] They went on to build dozens of office buildings, apartment buildings, and shopping malls in Manhattan, Queens, Westchester County, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Detroit including 1 Astor Plaza on Times Square; the MGM Building, the Rolex Building, 250 Broadway, the Brevoort, Brevoort East, 710 Park Avenue, and 1 East 66th Street. [1]
Minskoff was a member of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers; was a lecturer on real estate at New York University; served as director and vice chairman of Gemco National Inc., and as a director of both the Sterling National Bank and Trust Company and the Sterling Bancorp. [1]
Minskoff served as president and chairman of the United Home for Aged Hebrews in New Rochelle, New York; and as the director of the Lexington School for the Deaf. [1] He and his wife were founders of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and benefactors of St. Mary's Hospital in Palm Beach, Florida. [1] Minskoff also built the Sam and Esther Minskoff Cultural Center and the Park East Day School in Manhattan. [1] The Minskoff Theatre is named after his father.
On November 17, 1935, Minskoff was married Marjorie Folgeman; [5] they had three children: James Minskoff Sterling; Alan Minskoff; and Jean Minskoff Grant. [1] [3] Services were held at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan. [1] Minskoff Brothers was dissolved and in 2008, descendants of Henry, Jerome and Myron Minskoff filed suits against each other in Manhattan federal court over the company's assets. [3] His son, James, (who changed his last name to Sterling) is married to Carolina Somoza, daughter of former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Hope Portocarrero; and granddaughter of Anastasio Somoza Garcia. [6]