In 1951, the family immigrated to the United States, settling on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and had two more children: Dan and Mark.
[2] In 1952, pooling the assets of over 100 investors, many of them Holocaust survivors, he founded The Argo Corporation and began investing in real estate in New York City.
[6] Argo eventually converted most of its buildings in Manhattan into cooperative ownership during the 1960s and 1970s typically keeping the management contract thereafter.
He grew the business to become one of the largest independent real estate management companies in New York City.
[16] In 1998, he was recognized by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Foreign Investor Jubilee Award.