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Harry Helmsley

Harry Helmsley

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Sep 17, 2026

Bob KnakalHOST
16:40
So keeping in the vein of education being a central part of your makeup journey.
Bob KnakalHOST
16:48
You take an NYU class Larry Silverstein is giving, and you have to share the story of how Harry Helmsley was flirting with you in the class one night.
Leslie HimmelGUEST
16:58
Okay.
Leslie HimmelGUEST
16:59
So after actually four years at Integrated, so after, let's just go back to Integrated for a second.
Leslie HimmelGUEST
18:37
And I took Larry Silverstein.
Leslie HimmelGUEST
18:39
I took a lot of classes, but I think the In my fourth year at Integrated, I took the NYU class by Larry, where he had different speakers every week.
Leslie HimmelGUEST
18:49
And one week he had Harry Helmsley, which people of this generation probably don't know, but he owned about 10 million square feet.
Leslie HimmelGUEST
18:57
He was a syndicator also, but he owned the Empire State Building, the Graybar Building.
Brian McDonaldGUEST
29:26
He had three kids in college at the time.
Brian McDonaldGUEST
29:28
Uh, his neighbor in Flushing was a man named Eddie Brady, who was a detective in the New York City Police Department, and Eddie was working hotel security for Harry and Leona Helmsley, owners of, among other things, the Helmsley Palace in New York.
Brian McDonaldGUEST
29:42
A, a ...
Brian McDonaldGUEST
29:42
Now, years before Donald Trump, uh, Harry Helmsley was the preeminent real estate mogul in New York City.
Brian McDonaldGUEST
29:49
But it was Leona who would wrestle The Donald for the front page of the New York Post.
Brian McDonaldGUEST
29:55
Page Six dubbed her the Queen of Mean.

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