Steven Roth was born on 1941 and is an American real estate investor, the founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, the largest commercial landlord in New York City.
15 Facts About Steven Roth
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Steven Roth is co-founder and managing general partner of Interstate Properties, and chairman and chief executive officer of Alexander's.
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Steven Roth graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
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Steven Roth's efforts were very successful and in 1980, he founded the New York-based real estate investment trust Vornado Realty Trust.
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The Hong Kong investors then sold their share to Steven Roth, making Steven Roth and Trump business partners.
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Steven Roth's companies had past involvement in the Alexander's deal with Trump and with Jared Kushner, Kushner's father and the Kushner family's real estate business.
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In 2017, Steven Roth was paid $2 million in dividends on shares in firms that he does not own.
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In July 2017, Steven Roth advised US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao not to cancel construction of the Gateway Project, which would link New Jersey with Penn Station in Manhattan.
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Steven Roth was a major donor to Eliot Spitzer's 2006 New York gubernatorial campaign.
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Steven Roth served as one of the top economic advisers to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in 2016 and was included in a March 2017 White House meeting on the Trump Administration infrastructure plan.
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Steven Roth was present at Trump headquarters on April 20,2016, when Trump gave a speech celebrating his victory in multiple GOP primaries.
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Steven Roth has served as a trustee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the New York University School of Medicine Foundation.
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Steven Roth served as chair of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and as a member of the Board of Overseers of Tuck.
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Steven Roth funded the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth and in 2012, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth.
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Steven Roth's wife is Broadway producer Daryl Steven Roth who is Jewish.