Goldman was the founder of Solil Management, a real estate investment firm he founded in the 1950s with his business partner, Alex DiLorenzo.
Goldman was widely considered the most prominent non-institutional real estate investor in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s.
[2] At the time of his death in 1987, Goldman owned the largest private real estate portfolio in New York City with more than 600 properties, worth over $1 billion.
Goldman briefly attended Brooklyn College, before turning to real estate during the Great Depression.
[5] The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at Johns Hopkins University is named in his honor, following a gift of $10 million.