{{Short description|American real estate developer and philanthropist}} {{Infobox person | name = Henry H. Minskoff | image = | caption = | birth_date = May 27, 1911 | birth_place = New York City, New York | birth_name = | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|8|13|1911|5|27}} | death_place = New York City, New York | education = | occupation = real estate developer | known_for = | children = James Minskoff Sterling<br/> Alan Minskoff<br/> Jean Minskoff Grant | family = | spouse = Marjorie Folgeman | parents = Sam and Esther Minskoff | website = }}
'''Henry H. Minskoff''' (May 27, 1911 – August 13, 1984) was an American real estate developer.<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/15/obituaries/henry-h-minskoff-73-head-of-major-building-company.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Henry H. Minskoff, 73, Head of Major Building Company |author=Glenn Fowler |date=August 15, 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jta.org/1984/08/17/archive/henry-minskoff-dead-at-73 |publisher=Jewish Telegraph Agency|title=Henry Minskoff Dead at 73 |date=August 17, 1984}}</ref>
==Biography== Minskoff was born to a Jewish family in New York City<ref name=NYTObit /> the second of six children of Sam Minskoff and Esther Kernstein Minskoff,<ref name=RealDealBrevoort>{{cite web |url=https://therealdeal.com/2014/09/12/minskoff-family-in-fight-over-brevoort-east-leasehold/ |publisher=The Real Deal |title=Minskoffs in fight over Brevoort East leasehold - Descendants of famed real estate family battle each other for 20 East 9th St. commercial space |author=David Jones |date=September 12, 2014}}</ref> immigrants from Russia and Poland, respectively. He had four brothers: Leo, Jerome, Myron and Walter and one sister, Muriel.<ref name=NYTObit /> He grew up in the Bronx.<ref>''1930 United States Federal Census''</ref> He graduated from Lehigh University and then joined his father's real estate business he had founded in 1908.<ref name=NYTObit /> They went on to build dozens of office buildings, apartment buildings, and shopping malls in Manhattan, Queens, Westchester County, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Detroit including 1 Astor Plaza on Times Square; the MGM Building, the Rolex Building, 250 Broadway, the Brevoort, Brevoort East, 710 Park Avenue, and 1 East 66th Street.<ref name=NYTObit />
Minskoff was a member of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers; was a lecturer on real estate at New York University; served as director and vice chairman of Gemco National Inc., and as a director of both the Sterling National Bank and Trust Company and the Sterling Bancorp.<ref name=NYTObit />
==Philanthropy and boardships== Minskoff served as president and chairman of the United Home for Aged Hebrews in New Rochelle, New York; and as the director of the Lexington School for the Deaf.<ref name=NYTObit /> He and his wife were founders of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and benefactors of St. Mary's Hospital in Palm Beach, Florida.<ref name=NYTObit /> Minskoff also built the Sam and Esther Minskoff Cultural Center and the Park East Day School in Manhattan.<ref name=NYTObit /> The Minskoff Theatre is named after his father.
==Personal life== On November 17, 1935, Minskoff was married to Marjorie Folgeman;<ref name=NYTWifeObit>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E7DB123AF936A15753C1A9609C8B63 |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Paid Notice: Deaths Schleifer, Marjorie Minskoff |date=October 25, 2006}}</ref> they had three children: James Minskoff Sterling; Alan Minskoff; and Jean Minskoff Grant.<ref name=NYTObit /><ref name=RealDealBrevoort /> Services were held at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan.<ref name=NYTObit /> Minskoff Brothers was dissolved and in 2008, descendants of Henry, Jerome and Myron Minskoff filed suits against each other in Manhattan federal court over the company's assets.<ref name=RealDealBrevoort /> His son, Dr. James, (who changed his last name to Sterling), a psychologist, is married to Carolina Somoza, daughter of former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Hope Portocarrero; and granddaughter of Anastasio Somoza Garcia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/16/style/miss-somoza-wed-to-dr-j-m-sterling.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Miss Somoza Wed to Dr. J. M. Sterling |date= October 16, 1984}}</ref>
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