Real estate patriarch Steve Goodstein dead at 81
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 subseque...