Day in the Life of: Jerry Larkin

Brookfield Properties leasing bigwig on the "Titanic" theme song, his bearded dragon lizard and being part of a posse of Rangers fans

Jerry Larkin (Photo: Tobias Truvillion)
Jerry Larkin (Photo: Tobias Truvillion)

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From the April issue: Jerry Larkin oversees all leasing in New York and Boston for the mega-commercial landlord Brookfield Property Partners. The Toronto-based firm owns nearly 20 million square feet of office space in New York, including the four-building, 8.5 million-square-foot Brookfield Placeoffice complex, where it has been on a leasing tear in the last 18 months. The complex, which had large blocks of empty space to fill when some of its biggest tenants shrunk or relocated, has signed some of the biggest and most valuable leases in the city. [more]