William Zeckendorf
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William Zeckendorf, Sr. was one of America's master builders and real estate developers. Through his development company of Webb and Knapp (for which he began working in 1938 and purchased in 1949), he developed much of the New York City urban landscape.
Before his companies spectacular bankruptcy in 1965, he became the embodiment of glamorous real-estate dealmaking which included developing Roosevelt Airfield where Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight, to acquiring the land for the United Nations in New York, to putting together the University of Long Island. Architects I. M. Pei and Le Corbusier worked for Zeckendorf's many projects.