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William Zeckendorf

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William Zeckendorf, Sr. (June 30, 1905 – September 30, 1976) was a prominent American real estate developer. [1]

53 relations: Alcoa, American Jews, Americans, Arthur Rubloff, Berkshire Hathaway, Beverly Hills, California, Century City, Los Angeles, Charles Lindbergh, Chrysler Building, Cleopatra (1963 film), Downtown Denver, Downtown Montreal, East River, Headquarters of the United Nations, Holt McDougal, Hotel Astor (New York City), I. M. Pei, Irving Kolodin, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Le Corbusier, Long Island University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Magnificent Mile, Mary Pickford, Michigan Avenue (Chicago), Nelson Rockefeller, New York City, Newsday, Paris, Illinois, Place Ville Marie, Prudential Financial, Real estate development, Real estate investing, Robie House, Rockefeller Center, Roosevelt Field (airport), Rubloff Company, Santa Monica, California, Southern California, Spyros Skouras, Tex McCrary, The Century Plaza Hotel, United Nations, University of Chicago, Wallace Harrison, Webb and Knapp, Wells Fargo Center (Denver), Welton Becket, William Zeckendorf Jr., ..., Worley Thorne, 20th Century Fox, 42nd Street (Manhattan). Expand index (3 more) »

Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (from Aluminum Company of America) is an American industrial corporation.

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American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Arthur Rubloff

Arthur Rubloff (June 25, 1902 – May 24, 1986) was an American real estate developer who founded Arthur Rubloff & Co.

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Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Century City, Los Angeles

Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles County's Westside.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.

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Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco–style skyscraper located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film chronicling the struggles of Cleopatra, the young Queen of Egypt, to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

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Downtown Denver

Downtown Denver is the main financial, commercial, and entertainment district in Denver, Colorado.

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Downtown Montreal

Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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East River

The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City.

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Headquarters of the United Nations

The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.

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Holt McDougal

Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in secondary schools.

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Hotel Astor (New York City)

Hotel Astor was a hotel located in the Times Square area of Manhattan, New York City, in operation from 1904 through 1967.

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I. M. Pei

Ieoh Ming Pei, FAIA, RIBA – website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (born 26 April 1917), commonly known as I. M.

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Irving Kolodin

Irving Kolodin (February 21, 1908April 29, 1988) was an American music critic and music historian.

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John D. Rockefeller Jr.

John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist who was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Long Island University

Long Island University (LIU) is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher education with locations and programs spanning the New York metropolitan area, overseas, and online.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Magnificent Mile

The Magnificent Mile, sometimes referred to as The Mag Mile, is an upscale section of Chicago's Michigan Avenue, running from the Chicago River to Oak Street in the Near North Side.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago which runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.

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Nelson Rockefeller

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th Governor of New York (1959–1973).

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newsday

Newsday is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Paris, Illinois

Paris is a city in Paris Township, Edgar County, Illinois, south of Chicago and west of Indianapolis.

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Place Ville Marie

Place Ville Marie (PVM for short) is a large office and shopping complex in central Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza.

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Prudential Financial

Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 30 other countries.

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Real estate development

Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.

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Real estate investing

Real estate investing involves the purchase, ownership, management, rental and/or sale of real estate for profit.

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Robie House

The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark on the campus of the University of Chicago in the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois, at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue.

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Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st Streets, facing Fifth Avenue, in New York City.

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Roosevelt Field (airport)

Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located east-southeast of Mineola, Long Island, New York.

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Rubloff Company

Rubloff Company was one of the largest and oldest real estate companies in the U.S. city of Chicago.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Spyros Skouras

Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (Σπύρος Σκούρας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a Greek American motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962.

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Tex McCrary

John Reagan McCrary (October 13, 1910–July 29, 2003), better known as Tex McCrary, was an American journalist and public relations specialist who popularized the talk show genre for television and radio along with his wife, Jinx Falkenburg, with whom he hosted the first radio talk show, "Meet Tex and Jinx" as well as the radio show "Hi Jinx" and the television talk shows "At Home" and "The Swift Home Service Club".

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The Century Plaza Hotel

The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel forming a sweeping crescent design fronting fountains on Avenue of the Stars, adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers and the new 2000 Avenue of the Stars complex which houses Fidelity Investments, Comerica Bank, UBS Wealth Management, and talent agency CAA.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Wallace Harrison

Wallace Kirkman Harrison (September 28, 1895 – December 2, 1981) was an American architect.

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Webb and Knapp

Webb and Knapp was a real estate development firm.

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Wells Fargo Center (Denver)

Wells Fargo Center is a building located in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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Welton Becket

Welton David Becket (August 8, 1902 – January 16, 1969) was an American architect who designed many buildings in Los Angeles, California.

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William Zeckendorf Jr.

William Zeckendorf Jr. (October 31, 1929 – February 12, 2014) was an American real estate developer.

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Worley Thorne

Worley Thorne is an American screenwriter, television writer, script consultant and adjunct assistant professor of Composition, Critical Thinking and Screenwriting.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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42nd Street (Manhattan)

42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square in Midtown.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zeckendorf

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