Minskoff is a developer with a taste for high-end commercial buildings and suspenders.

Even though Minskoff grew up in the real estate business, his career started with jobs at Lehman Brothers and Cushman and Wakefield; in 1967 he joined the Reichmann family's Olympia & York, where he worked his way up to CEO. On his watch, the company became the largest development firm in the world, with over 27 million square feet of space to its name; most notably, Minksoff oversaw the development of the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. In 1987, he left O&Y to form his own real estate concern, Minskoff Equities. Under the Minskoff Equities banner, his first major development was the office building 1325 Avenue of Americas, built in conjunction with disgraced erstwhile Sotheby's chair Alfred Taubman. These days, Minskoff owns and/or manages close to 5 million square feet of commercial space in the city. Minskoff pays more attention to the aesthetics of his developments than most real estate developers, insisting that his buildings be "works of art." [Image via Getty]