Jade won’t stop name dropping him on Owning Manhattan so who’s her father Marc Shenker?
He made a huge impact on the city
Jade Shenker keeps casually name dropping her father on Owning Manhattan, but who actually is Mark Shenker?
According to a petition that Jade wrote, her father inherited their real estate business in the 1970’s from his grandfather, Sol Shenker.
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Sol was one of the most prominent landlords in New York City and Marc continued in his footsteps, purchasing “seven back to back buildings between avenue A and B, Marc make it his mission to cater to the artist, musicians, and theater crowd.”
She continued: “Allocating many of his units to artists, he gave many struggling performers free rent in order to maintain their love for the arts. Marc’s buildings became popular amongst actors like Steve Buscemi and Andy Kaufman.”
Jade’s petition was to rename one of the streets to Shenker Street in remembrance to everything her father did for the community, however it doesn’t seem to have got anywhere.
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Marc Shenker also worked as a property developer in Miami, an aspect of his career that Jade brings up a lot about her father during Owning Manhattan, saying she’s come from a long history of property developers.
He purchased Hader Hall in December 2003 and obtained a $5.2 million loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for restoration.
However the project came to an end in 2006 when Marc became bankrupt and according to the Historical Society archives was unable to pay around $350k to the contractors who were also working on the restoration project.
The city foreclosed on the property and took responsibility for paying off almost the entire Hader Hall loan.
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