Rodney Propp is a New York-based real estate developer and co-founder of Tahl-Propp Equities.
[1] His grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who became rich selling Christmas tree lights.
[4] They own and operate 17 affordable housing developments in Harlem and Washington Heights and eight conventional rental buildings.
[2] In 2008, he received the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award for his efforts to strengthen race relations in New York's Harlem community.
[2] He serves on the Real Estate & Allied Trades Executive Committee of the United Jewish Appeal Federation in New York.