
Harry Helmsley
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Sep 17, 2026
How Leslie Himmel Built a 40-Year Career in Commercial Real Estate
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16:40Bob KnakalHOST
So keeping in the vein of education being a central part of your makeup journey.
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16:48Bob KnakalHOST
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.
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16:58Leslie HimmelGUEST
Okay.
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16:59Leslie HimmelGUEST
So after actually four years at Integrated, so after, let's just go back to Integrated for a second.
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18:37Leslie HimmelGUEST
And I took Larry Silverstein.
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18:39Leslie HimmelGUEST
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.
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18:49Leslie HimmelGUEST
And one week he had Harry Helmsley, which people of this generation probably don't know, but he owned about 10 million square feet.
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18:57Leslie HimmelGUEST
He was a syndicator also, but he owned the Empire State Building, the Graybar Building.
Five Floors Up: The Heroic Family Story of Four Generations in the FDNY
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29:26Brian McDonaldGUEST
He had three kids in college at the time.
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29:28Brian McDonaldGUEST
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.
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29:42Brian McDonaldGUEST
A, a ...
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29:42Brian McDonaldGUEST
Now, years before Donald Trump, uh, Harry Helmsley was the preeminent real estate mogul in New York City.
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29:49Brian McDonaldGUEST
But it was Leona who would wrestle The Donald for the front page of the New York Post.
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29:55Brian McDonaldGUEST
Page Six dubbed her the Queen of Mean.