David E. Green: Young Real Estate Man of the Year Recipient
By Jotham Sederstrom January 17, 2012 4:00 pm
reprintsNew development, however, might satiate the needs of only the city’s largest commercial tenants.
“While future development on the West Side and other areas of Manhattan is starting to happen, it’s on a very large scale,” he said. “Smaller tenants will have more limited choices to satisfy those needs than larger tenants.”
Staying competitive is among Mr. Green’s specialties. But it’s his charitable work that he finds most rewarding and what prompted the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York to honor him this year with its award, which is given in coordination with the REBNY accolades.
Indeed, for the past five years he has cochaired the association’s annual summer golf and tennis outing at Old Oaks Country Club in Westchester.
Mr. Green, who played tennis at Oyster Bay High School, led the organization’s fund-raising efforts, which were spearheaded by members last year to feed the city’s needy during Thanksgiving.
Thanks to the YM/WREA’s Feed the Less Fortunate program, in coordination with the charitable group RiverFundNY and local catering house iEat Green, 2,000 people over the past five years have received a hot home-cooked meal during the holidays.
The group spends the weekend prior to Thanksgiving cooking 50 turkeys, 200 pounds each of sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing and string beans.
They then serve the homeless at Rufus King State Park a few days before the holiday.
“It’s an incredibly rewarding experience,” Mr. Green said. “You get so much joy out of the whole thing.”
Given all this, it’s no surprise the organization chose to bestow Mr. Green with one of its top honors.
“Any time you are recognized by your peers for doing good it makes you feel good,” said Mr. Green, a Long Island native and SUNY Binghamton economics graduate who currently lives in Old Bethpage with his wife, Rhonda, and two children, Leah, 17, and Benjamin, 13.
“This is the pinnacle of my career,” he added, referring to the recognition. “It’s a great honor.”
