Alexis Romm (April 19, 1877 – September 25, 1928) was a Russian-born Jewish, American, New York City, Bronx, and Mount Vernon based entrepreneur, builder, real estate developer, and art collector.
His dramatic suicide, after a cancer diagnosis, and subsequent estate settlement was widely written about and published in newspapers across the United States.
In 1921 Romm founded the Hudson Builders Corporation with Louis Klosk and Barnet Brodsky and began construction of a five-story apartment building at Grand Concourse and 197th in Bronx, New York.
He established and led the Tokonenetie Raalty Company of Mount Vernon and owned the Park Iron Works of New York.
[7] Romm collected work by American Jewish artists including "The Destruction of the Ghetto byAbraham A. Manievich.
On September 25th 1928, at the age of 51, after visiting with a specialist and receiving a diagnosis of advanced incurable stomach cancer, Romm checked into the Hotel Pennsylvania at 401 Seventh Avenue (15 Penn Plaza) in Manhattan at 3:40PM.