Richard Grossman
With more than
three decades of
real estate experience
in New
York, Richard Grossman
is well-known as an innovative,
effective, and
strategic leader for
both residential and
commercial properties.
As president of
Halstead Real Estate,
Richard works closely
together with Chief
Executive Officer Diane
M. Ramirez to
form the company’s
Executive Committee.
He handles the day to
day operations of running
Halstead’s Greenwich Village
and Soho offices.
Under his careful direction,
a network of top producing
agents has emerged in Halstead’s
Downtown Offices.
Richard combines strong leadership
skills with invaluable
knowledge of the real estate
industry’s ins and outs for the
benefit of his agents and their
clients. Fully familiar with the
inner workings and requirements
of cooperatives and condominiums,
Richard is consistently
able to provide agents and
clients with valuable insights
on complex transactions – always
with a calm, logical, and
patient demeanor.
During his career, Richard
has been involved with the conversion
of more than 30 rental
buildings to cooperative or condominium
ownership. He has
been directly involved in each
step of the process, including
initial analysis of the viability
of conversion, preparation
and certification
of the offering plan,
handling the sales and
marketing of vacant
units as well as the negotiations
with existing
tenants.
Prior to joining Halstead,
Richard was
senior vice president
and director of sales for
Heron Properties, where
he was responsible for the
creation of the sales division
– that he quickly grew to
25 agents – of one of New York’s
most prestigious management
firms. While at Heron, he also
served as a commercial mortgage
broker, specializing in
underlying mortgages for cooperative
buildings. Richard
also brokered numerous retail
and commercial transactions
including art galleries on 57th
Street and in the Chelsea art
district. Before Heron, Richard
was the director of sales for
Hahn & Mann Realty, Inc., and
he started his career at J.H.
Taylor Real Estate.
In his personal time, Richard
is a board member of the NYC
AIDS Memorial in the West Village,
for which he raised funds.
An avid traveler, fitness enthusiast,
and contemporary
and modern art collector, he
is the past president of the
Brevoort East, a 330-unit coop
in Greenwich Village, where he
and another shareholder were
responsible for a $3.6 million
tax refund to the building.
Richard is a graduate of Syracuse
University and received a
Diploma in Real Estate Analysis
from New York University.
President,
Halstead Real
Estate
Mickey Heller
Mickey Heller may
have been raised
in the Marble Hill
Projects and Coop
City in the Bronx, but it has
been in Brooklyn where he has
made his indelible mark.
Among his many contributions
to Brooklyn’s LGBTQ community
and its civic life generally, Mickey
is proudest of his work with
Brooklyn Pride (brooklynpride.
org), the group that stages the
borough’s annual Pride Festival
and its truly awesome Twilight
Parade.
He got his start with Brooklyn
Pride in 2007 and 2008 driving
the float that carried the irrepressible
borough president at
that time, Marty Markowitz, who
in that post and earlier as a state
senator had contributed enormously
to the launch and growth
of the annual Pride celebration.
In 2009, Mickey volunteered to
help out with the 5k run through
Prospect Park on the morning of
the Pride festivities and with the
evening parade. By 2010, he had
become the parade coordinator,
a role he has maintained ever
since.
Beyond the heavy lifting involved
in coordinating the parade,
Mickey has also served
as co-chair or chair of the
overall Pride Weekend
every year since 2013.
Just as Brooklyn Pride
has transformed the face
and visibility of the borough’s
LGBTQ community
over the past several
decades, the Brooklyn
Community Pride Center
(lgbtbrooklyn.org) represents
a profound commitment
to serving its needs, particularly
among members of the
community too long overlooked.
Mickey is proud to have been a
founding board member of the
Pride Center.
Among Mickey’s other civic
contributions to Brooklyn is his
role on the board of the Piper
Theatre Company (pipertheatre.
org), which, founded 20 years
ago, produces innovative and
dynamic productions by and
for the borough’s young people.
The company’s offerings
have been challenging, including
two pieces by Stephen
Sondheim – “Into
the Woods” and “Sweeney
Todd” – as well as Charles
Busch’s “Psycho Beach
Party,” “Priscilla Queen of
the Desert: The Musical,”
and “Peter Pan.”
Mickey, however, might be
most visible – if least recognized
– as the “official” Santa
Claus for the past seven years
for the Park Slope Fifth Avenue
Business Improvement District’s
Christmas celebration.
Mickey is a graduate of the
city’s High School of Music &
Art, Hunter College, and Brooklyn
Law School. He has practiced
law for almost 30 years, and for
the past seven years has served
as an administrative law judge
in the New York State Court
System.
Co-chair,
Brooklyn Pride
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