{"id":19315,"date":"2014-04-02T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2014-04-02T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:06:19","slug":"how-not-to-appear-for-a-co-op-board-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=19315","title":{"rendered":"How not to appear for a co-op board interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Billionaire’s Playlist<\/em>, by Connie Bruck, in the January 20, 2014 New Yorker:<\/p>\n

…[Leonard] Blavatnik [the “billionaire” of the title] began an extraordinary series of real-estate purchases around that time. In 2004, he bought his London mansion, reportedly outbidding his fellow-oligarch Roman Abramovich. He bought the Grand-H\u00f4tel du Cap-Ferrat, in the South of France. In New York, he bought the New York Academy of Sciences mansion on East Sixty-third Street, and then a sprawling apartment on Fifth Avenue. Soon afterward, he bought a fifty-million-dollar town house on East Sixty-fourth Street … In perhaps the only break in a string of successful acquisitions, he was turned down by a co-op board in Manhattan; he told a friend that his mistake was going to the interview accompanied by armed bodyguards.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Billionaire’s Playlist, by Connie Bruck, in the January 20, 2014 New Yorker: …[Leonard] Blavatnik [the “billionaire” of the title] began an extraordinary series of real-estate purchases around that time. In 2004, he bought his London mansion, reportedly outbidding … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[23,79,83],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-co-op-apartments","tag-co-op-boards-of-directors","tag-co-op-rules"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t