The Real Deal New York

From the January issue: Sometimes developers are unavailable because they’re out of the country. But rarely are they off doing advanced martial arts training. But that was the recently the case with Eran Conforty, co-founder of Horizen Global LLC, who with his partner Michael Yanko runs the boutique real estate development company responsible for such New York City residential properties as Soma and Hudson Blue, as well as the Horizen Tower Hotel and the VU Hotel. Conforty, the president, was training in Japan. He is a black belt with a sixth degree ranking thanks to many years of training and teaching. And Horizen isn’t a spelling error; it’s a mission statement.