11 Questions
By The Editors | March 4, 2011 | 6:37 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Jay Heydt has done more than 10,000 transactions in his decade in the real estate game, all without taking shortcuts--that is his motto, "No shortcuts." This earned him top listing status in 2008 and 2009, and he has built relationships with more than 300 buildings over the years. When he is not working, commuting or spending time with his family, Jay... MORE >
By The Editors | February 25, 2011 | 7:56 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! A managing director at Prudential Douglas Elliman, Fran Katzen leads one of the firm's most successful teams. Once a professional ballerina, she now dances her way into deals all over town and around the world--she was born in South Africa and raised in Sydney before coming to New York, after... MORE >
By The Editors | February 18, 2011 | 2:54 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Loretta Edmonds, a vice-president at Essential New York, has been selling real estate in New York for more than two decades, and she knows every neighborhood like it were her beloved Upper West Side. She loves all her clients but has a soft spot for artists and entertainers, having been one herself, and even winning an award from the Screen Actors... MORE >
By The Editors | February 11, 2011 | 3:29 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Toni Martin grew up in Queens, lived in Manhattan but settled in Brooklyn, where she is now a specialist for the Corcoran Group. She has sold units all over the borough since joining the firm two years ago, thanks in part to her years of experience in the business sector. Though she likes to drive, Martin is also a health enthusiast... MORE >
By The Editors | February 4, 2011 | 4:53 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! For the past two years, Tracie Hamersley has been the top broker at Citi Habitats and made the top five in 2005, 2006 and 2007. With listings all over town, there is nothing she can't sell--with the help of her sister, of course, as they work together in the perfect team. She even specializes in Miami real estate. Where do you live?In... MORE >
By The Editors | January 28, 2011 | 5:38 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Laurielle Noel has only been a broker for only three years now, after graduating from Georgetown Law and working for PriceWaterHouse Cooper for half-a-dozen years before that. Still, she is a natural, becoming one of the top sellers at Platinum Properties. When she is not showing clients around downtown, she loves to wander Brownstone Brooklyn, absorbing the energy of the... MORE >
By The Editors | January 22, 2011 | 4:27 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Barbara Godson has been working in city real estate for decades since coming to New York even longer ago from the United Kingdom. A doyen downtown, Godson knows every building inside and out, as well as all the streets she traverses daily on her bike.... MORE >
By The Editors | January 14, 2011 | 5:10 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Steven Leon has only been with Citi Habitats for six years, but real estate has been in his blood forever. The rare Soho native, Leon got into the business while selling some of his family property and realized he had a knack for it. It showed at the office, where the senior associate broker won The Rookie of the Year, Top... MORE >
By The Editors | January 7, 2011 | 6:07 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Beth Benalloul is a senior vice president and associate broker with Corcoran, where she specializes on selling apartments in her own backyard of the Upper East Side--for the sake of expertise and convenience. When not selling, selling, selling, she spends time mentoring new brokers and finding new... MORE >
By The Editors | December 17, 2010 | 3:44 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Dina Cohen has been a broker with Citi Habitats for more than a decade. The Brooklyn native spent her time before that working in television, including a lovely year in LA. Following that, she came home and threw herself into the broker business. With some real estate experience from her time in TV, Cohen became an expert almost over night, and... MORE >
By The Editors | December 10, 2010 | 2:25 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Angela Rapoport came to New York like so many before her, to make it big. A native of Estonia, she arrived in the city in 1990, ran her own Italian boutique for a dozen years, before making the jump to real estate, where she has enjoyed success after success at the Corcoran Group. She has closed deals all over Manhattan, but... MORE >
By The Editors | December 3, 2010 | 6:58 pm
Welcome to the latest installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Mary Beth Flynn is one of Brown Harris Steven's premier brokers, making the Top 10 list back in 2007. She has brokered deals all across the city, as well as in Boston, where she worked as a commercial and residential real estate executive before arriving on our fair shores. When she's not closing deals or whizzing about town, Flynn enjoys donating... MORE >
By The Editors | November 24, 2010 | 3:40 pm
Welcome to the next installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Today, The Observer checks in with Richard Grossman, Halstead's Executive Director of Sales, Downtown. That means he runs all the deals brokered out of Halstead's Village office, which happens to be not far from his long-time home. Under Mr. Grossman's direction, the office has doubled in size to 110 agents, and he has overseen more than 30 rental conversions... MORE >
By The Editors | November 19, 2010 | 2:33 pm
Welcome to a new regular feature from The Observer Real Estate Desk. In this inaugural edition, we ask Elayne Roskin, a senior vice president and managing director at Brown Harris Stevens, 11 questions about the city and herself. Ms. Roskin grew up in New York with real estate in her blood. (Don't we all?) The granddaughter of one of William Zeckendorf's associates, this 25-year-vet has spent the past dozen years at Brown Harris Stevens... MORE >
