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Steve Witkoff: “We were not slumlords. That's not who we were. We plowed…”

Featuring: Steve Witkoff, Republican | U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East | National

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Stuart Miller & Steve Witkoff | Real Estate Impact Conference 2026

Published | Video Starts at 18:57

But I want to tell you that Larry and I were really well respected within city government. Everybody knew we ran a clean good. You know, We were not slumlords. That's not who we were. We plowed money back in. I remember my then wife, when Andrew was First born in 1989, we lived in the Bagelnosh Building at 160 West 71st Street. And it was because there was a bagel nosh store there. (18:57–19:02)

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Asserts that they reinvested money and were not slumlords.

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