The Real Deal New York

Edward Minskoff is President of Edward J. Minskoff Equities, a New York-based real estate acquisition and development company. Minskoff founded the company, which leases and manages 5 million square feet of primarily commercial space, in 1987.

Minskoff was at Olympia & York, whose development projects included the 7.5 million-square-foot World Financial Center. Minskoff and his wife Julie Chai-Minskoff are avid art collectors, according to a lengthy interview with The Real Deal.

“Art’s a passion really for both of us. She oversees the entire collection,” Minskoff told the magazine, adding that their collection of somewhere between 450 and 500 pieces of 20th century contemporary art are displayed in his homes and his buildings. “Every single building that I own has my art in it,” he told The Real Deal.

In February 2015 Minskoff told the New York Times that his firm had just completed two new office buildings — one at 51 Astor Place and another at 101 Avenue of the Americas.

“51 Astor Place was a brand-new, ground-up construction where we used Fumihiko Maki out of Tokyo as our architect. It’s pretty much fully leased. We just have part of a floor left, but that should be leased over the next month. Rental rates per square foot are between the low $90s up to about $115,” he told the Times. -GM