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Abner Zwillman - Wikipedia Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 – February 26, 1959) was an American mob boss who rose to power in the criminal underworld, primarily in North Jersey. He was a long time friend and associate of mobsters Lucky Luciano and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Zwi…

Meyer Lansky, who he sat on The Commission (mafia) with. Zwillman's criminal organization was a part of the National Crime Syndicate After Dutch Schultz's murder in 1935, Zwillman took over those of Schultz's criminal operations that were in New Jersey. The press began calling

Zwillman the "Al Capone of New Jersey." However, Zwillman often sought to legitimize his image, offering a reward for the return of the Lindbergh baby in 1932, and contributed to charities, including $250,000 to a Newark slum-clearing project.

Kinney Parking Company was a New Jersey parking lot company owned by Manny Kimmel, Sigmund Dornbusch, and mob figure Abner Zwillman. The company was incorporated in 1945 by Manny Kimmel. This company became as a public and it merged with a funeral home company, Riverside

Memorial Chapel to form Kinney Service Corporation, and then expanded into car-rental, office cleaning, and construction.

In 1966, the firm merged with the National Cleaning Company (this company established in 1865[2]) to form Kinney National Company, headed by Steve Ross,

who had joined Riverside after marrying Carol Rosenthal, owner Edward Rosenthal's daughter.[3] Ross pursued an aggressive expansion of the company's properties, first acquiring Ashley-Famous talent agency, then Panavision, and finally in 1969 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, creating

Dimension Pictures.
Steven Jay Ross (April 5, 1927 – December 20, 1992) was an American businessman who was the CEO of Time Warner (now Warner Media), Warner Communications, and Kinney National Services, Inc.

Ross was born Steven Jay Rechnitz on April 5, 1927, in Brooklyn, NY

"Damn the Uris brothers, damn the Tishmans, damn Zeckendorf . . ." - New Yorker Cartoon

In a rare venture outside of New York, Zeckendorf served as the managing development partner for the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, a 3.1 million square foot complex on the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., completed in 1998

William Zeckendorf Jr.'s first marriage, to Norwegian Guri Lie, daughter of Trygve Lie, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations,[10] ended in divorce.[11] Their sons, William Lie and Arthur William, are the third generation of Zeckendorfs to become prominent

developers. Their properties in Manhattan include luxury condominium towers at 15 Central Park West, 50 United Nations Plaza, and 520 Park Avenue.

Zeckendorf's most notable property acquisition, and potential development of a "dream city" to rival Rockefeller Center. Nelson Rockefeller bought the site from him for $8.5 million ($111 million in 2019) and Nelson's father John D. Rockefeller Jr. subsequently donated this

land for the building of the United Nations Headquarters. Developer William Zeckendorf founded Trizec Properties in order to build Place Ville Marie.[8] He lost a bet to then Royal Bank President Earle McLaughlin, making payment in full (US$0.10) in an elaborate dime encased

in acrylic. Exactly what the bet concerned is unknown.

Zeckendorf also partnered with Chicago real estate titan Arthur Rubloff to develop a stretch of Michigan Avenue into what Rubloff dubbed the Magnificent Mile. The Rubloff Company was eventually acquired by Prudential and

subsequently has become a division of Berkshire Hathaway.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Tishman was president and chief executive officer of Tishman Realty and Construction, where he oversaw the construction of Madison Square Garden, the World Trade Center, the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue, and other projects. Expanding outside

of New York City, the firm's projects included the Century Plaza Towers in Los Angeles commissioned by Alcoa, the John Hancock Center in Chicago, and Detroit's Renaissance Center.

Tishman liquidated the original firm in 1977, and established Tishman Speyer the following year

with his son-in-law Jerry Speyer, as the firm's founding chairman. The new firm developed more than 300 building projects around the world, including the Torre Norte skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, as well as the Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in New York and the Sony

Center at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. As of 2010, the firm owned and managed some 166,000,000 square feet (15,400,000 m2) of commercial property, including the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center. At the time of his death, Tishman Speyer was working as construction manager

of a building at 510 Madison Avenue and was project manager of One World Trade Center, the tallest structure in the city. AECOM traces its origins to Kentucky-based Ashland Oil & Refining Company, which in turn grew out of Swiss Drilling Company, founded in Oklahoma in 1910 by

J. Fred Miles.