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Prudential Douglas Elliman
Douglas Elliman is an American real estate company. Douglas Elliman employs more than 7,000 agents and has 113 offices in New York City and across the country. The company also has a number of subsidiaries related to real estate services such as Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, Douglas Elliman Property Management, DE Commercial and DE Title. History and overview Douglas Elliman was founded in 1911 as a basement store at 421 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The company was sold to the Milstein family (Seymour Milstein and Paul Milstein) in 1989 and then again to Insignia Financial Group (now CB Richard Ellis). In 2003 Insignia sold Douglas Elliman to Montauk Battery Realty, an affiliate of Vector Group's New Valley LLC subsidiary. In 2012, the company dropped "Prudential" from its name, returning to its original 1911 name. It has a partnership with London-based Knight Frank LLP for residential business. Douglas Elliman affiliates include DE Property Management, DE Title and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Beach
South Beach, also nicknamed colloquially as SoBe, is a neighborhood in Miami Beach, Florida. It is located east of Miami between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses Miami Beach south of Dade Boulevard. This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed, starting in the 1910s, due to the development efforts of Carl G. Fisher, the Lummus Brothers, and John S. Collins, the latter of whose construction of the Collins Bridge provided the first vital land link between mainland Miami and the beaches. The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a booming regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane, which destroyed much of the area. As of 2010, 39,186 people lived in South Beach. History South Beach started as farmland. In 1870, Henry and Charles Lum purchased for coconut farming. Charles Lum built the first house on the beach in 1886. In 1894, the Lum brothers left the island, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast Film Festival
The Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF), formerly Gold Coast Film Fantastic, is an annual Australian film festival, held at the Home of the Arts (HOTA) in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland. Founded in 2002 as a fantasy film festival, GCFF now delivers a program of feature films, short films (SIPFEST), web series, film awards, and special events. History Modelled on the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, the festival began with a focus on fantasy and Science fiction films. The first festival took place in August 2002, under the direction of Casey Marshall Siemer, with Oscar-winning visual effects specialist John Cox as patron. The early festivals were known as Gold Coast Film Fantastic, and ran for four days in Robina. The inaugural event screened 21 films and included a Peter Jackson retrospective. The third festival, which ran for a few days only, from 5 to 8 August 2004, took place at Robina. Sometime between late 2009 and January 2011, the festival expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Park Conservancy
The Central Park Conservancy is a private, nonprofit park conservancy that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York and NYC Parks. The conservancy employs most maintenance and operations staff in the park. It effectively oversees the work of both the private and public employees under the authority of the publicly appointed Central Park administrator, who reports to the parks commissioner and the conservancy's president. The Central Park Conservancy was founded in 1980 in the aftermath of Central Park's decline in the 1960s and 1970s. Initially devoted to fundraising for projects to restore and improve the park, it took over the park's management duties in 1998. The organization has overseen the investment of more than $1 billion toward the restoration and enhancement of Central Park since its founding. With an endowment of over $200 million, consisting of contributions from residents, corporations, and foundations, the Conservancy raises the Park’s ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. Originally formed in New York City in 1924, it is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency. They are known for publishinguidelineson cardiovascular disease and prevention, standards on basic life support, advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and pediatric advanced life support (PALS), and in 2014 issued its first guidelines for preventing strokes in women. They are known also for operating a number of highly visible public service campaigns starting in the 1970s, and also operate a number of fundraising events. In 1994, the ''Chronicle of Philanthropy'', an industry publication, released a study that showed the American H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Tutor
Tracy Tutor (born August 11, 1975) is an American actress, author, real estate agent and reality television personality. She is a main cast member on the real estate reality television program, ''Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles'', appearing in that capacity since its tenth season in 2017. She began her career as an actress, appearing in the late 1990s films ''Exposé'' and '' No Vacancy''. In 2020, Tutor released her book ''Fear Is Just a Four-Letter Word: How to Develop the Unstoppable Confidence to Own Any Room'', which was listed by the Wall Street Journal as a bestseller. In the early 2020's, Tutor co-founded UN'SWEET zero wine, a sugar-free wine company. Early life and education Tutor was born on August 11, 1975, to Ronald Tutor, a well-known businessman, and Cheryl Osterkamp, and raised in Hidden Hills, California, a city and gated community in Los Angeles County, California. Ronald Tutor is the CEO of Tutor Perini (formerly Tutor Saliba), one of the largest civil and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis D
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a deriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund (born April 26, 1977) is a Swedish real estate broker, former IT entrepreneur, reality television star, and author. He is best known for starring in the Bravo reality series, ''Million Dollar Listing New York'' for all of its nine seasons. In 2015, Eklund released his book ''The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone'', which made The New York Times Best Seller list. Early life and education Eklund is the son of Klas Eklund, a senior economist at Swedish bank SEB, and brother of author Sigge Eklund. His paternal grandparents were Swedish actors Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig.En porrfilmstjärnas bekännelser Svensk Bokhandel, October 2004, Fredrik Eklund, accessed May 2008, Eklund had his first American experience as a foreign exchange student in |
Raphael De Niro
Raphael De Niro (born November 9, 1976) is an American real estate broker and former actor. He often works with celebrity clients, including Jon Bon Jovi, Renée Zellweger, Travis Kalanick and Kelly Ripa. De Niro is the son of actor Robert De Niro and actress Diahnne Abbott. He has also appeared in several films: '' Love Streams'' (1984); ''West 4th'' (2007); ''James Abbott is Gone'' (2013); ''Raging Bull'' (1980); and ''Awakenings'' (1990). De Niro is a broker for Douglas Elliman, and was ranked first in The Real Deal's Manhattan top residential agents in 2017. Early life and education De Niro was born on November 9, 1976 in Los Angeles, California but moved to New York City when he was a child. He worked at various summer jobs growing up, including in a Persian rug store, as a doorman, a production assistant on movie sets for his father, and as a busboy at his father’s restaurant, Nobu. He attended New York University, but did not graduate. Career Acting He appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Crone
Barbara Penny Crone Forney (born 1950 in New York City) is a former American television and radio reporter, media personality, and current real estate broker for the Douglas Elliman real estate company in New York. Career Born in New York to Harold Arthur Crone, president of Hecht's department store, Crone began her journalism career as a federal court reporter for the Hearst Newspaper in Baltimore, before moving to WJZ-TV as a writer and producer. Her first on-air reports occurred in 1973, while working for KMOX-TV, then at the CBS-owned station in St. Louis. Later in the 1970s, she worked for then-independent KPLR-TV, also in St. Louis. Crone was also a feature reporter for Good Day New York at WNYW-TV's ''Fox 5 Live'', a locally produced news and information morning show. Crone is a three-time local Emmy Award-winner, well known in the New York area for her coverage of the city's police and fire departments, as well as for the New York Yankees. Her additional credits include o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Altman
Josh Altman (born March 10, 1979) is an American real estate agent, real estate investor and reality television personality. He appears on the television show ''Million Dollar Listing'', on the Bravo! television network. He has also appeared on ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' and ''Giuliana and Bill'' on the E! network. Although similar in name to a television producer, Altman was not affiliated with the Netflix documentary ''Pandemic'' as claimed in some outlets. Early life Josh Altman was born to a Jewish familyJewish Journal: "A Conversation with Josh Altman of MDLLA" bY Ilana Angel September 28, 2015 on March 10, 1979, in |
Tal And Oren Alexander
Tal Alexander (born 5 July 1986) and Oren Alexander are United States real estate agents focusing on the New York and Miami markets. They founded the Alexander Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate in 2012. In 2019, the brothers co-represented the buyer in the most expensive residential home transaction ever in the United States. Early life Tal Alexander played tennis for Hofstra University, and Oren Alexander graduated from the University of Colorado with a BA in finance. They both moved to New York in 2008 to start their careers. Career Oren Alexander's first major deal was the sale of an $8.2 million penthouse in Manhattan in 2009. In 2019, the brothers co-represented the buyer in the United States' most expensive residential home transaction, when a 24,000 square foot penthouse, at 220 Central Park South, sold for $238 million in 2019. This sale surpassed the prior record when Barry Rosenstein paid $137 million for his home in The Hamptons in 2014. Also in 2019, the brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
