Stephen L. Green

Stephen L. Green (born 1938) is the founder for S.L. Green Realty Corp., which claims to be Manhattan’s largest owner of office buildings.

Green is the older brother of former New York City Public Advocate Mark J. Green. He received a BA from Hartwick College in 1959, and a JD from Boston College Law School in 1962 and was a trial attorney for several years and began buying lofts in New York City in 1980 via SL Green Properties. Green formed a REIT and went public in 1997 trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker of SLG. In January his website said the company owns 42 buildings representing 25 million square feet.[1] He is married to Nancy Peck who runs Nancy Peck & Co, which specializes in being an "office watchdog" during construction/refurbishment. Nancy has a son-Jonathan Peck. Jonathan has a daughter Elizabeth, and a son Ryan who are two of the 11 grandchildren Nancy and Steve have.[2][3]

In 2007 he bought Air America radio network and installed his brother Mark as President.[4]

He was a bronze medalist in squash at the 1985 Maccabiah Games. He endows the SL Green National Open Squash Championships for U.S. Squash. In 2008 he donated money for a $9 million, 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) SL Green StreetSquash Center on West 115th Street in Harlem.[5]

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