One of New York’s pioneering developers,
Steven Goodstein, has died at the age of 81.
The chairman of Goodstein Development
Corporation, Mr Goodstein, passed away on Saturday, February 13, 2021 in Delray
Beach, Florida.
A son of Queens, Mr Goodstein led one
of the city’s leading family firms, playing a key role in developing Battery
Park City in the 1980s and iconic properties including Fifth Avenue Tower and
the former Taft Hotel, which he helped transform in 1987.
Born in Queens in 1940, he joined his father Jack, a polish immigrant, at Goodstein Construction Corp. in 1957 and subsequently founded Goodstein Development Corp. where son Ivan, joined the family real estate business in 1990.