On Sept. 15, developer Kent Swig filed an affidavit with the Manhattan Supreme Court in which he claimed, “I cannot, out of my personal proceeds, satisfy a money judgment of $32,432,288.87 without being subject to extreme financial hardship. I do not have access to $28 million in cash or liquid assets and, if the Read More
It was 10:30 on an overcast Monday in early November, and Kent Swig, one of New York’s biggest landlords, was sitting at a conference table in the chic seventh-floor offices of his 20-story building at 770 Lexington Avenue. The windows framed a dreary autumn morning on the Upper East Side.
Mr. Swig, 47, wore Read More
On June 14, Mrs. William B. May Jr., matron of the august William B. May real-estate family, received a gift from her son-in-law, Peter Marra: a tribute for her 84th birthday. She sent the box back unopened.
The next day found her son, William May, a director and fourth-generation member of the 138-year-old family brokerage, Read More
