He is the founder and former chairman of SL Green Realty Corp., which claims to be Manhattan’s largest owner of office buildings.

[6] Green received a BA from Hartwick College[6] in 1959, and during his time there he was a member of the Alpha Delta Omega fraternity.

[1] Green worked as an attorney in Houston, Texas, for Vinson & Elkins for several years before starting an import-export firm specializing in the sale of hair products from Asia.

[citation needed] In 1980, Green formed SL Green Properties, Inc.[7] His strategy was to buy Class B office buildings, invest some money to redo their lobbies, facades and add other amenities and then raise the rents closer to Class A levels as older tenants moved out.

[8] According to the SL Green Realty Corp. website, the company has investment interests in 77 Manhattan office buildings comprising nearly 40 million square feet of space.