During the late 80s, Mr. Greg Singer – owner and founder of the Greg Singer Financial Corporation – was still working as a real estate broker in New York City, when he realized that he could take his experience and follow in the footsteps of his family by becoming the fourth member in their generation to help revive communities, and do his part to give back by providing senior housing and other social services, and by following in the image of his forefathers.
This lineage of the Singer family being intimately involved in real estate and giving back to communities actually dates all the way back to the turn of the century, when Louis Singer founded the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens, New York in 1914. A few short years later, in 1922, Louis was the founder and President of the Home of Old Israel; a privately funded and nonprofit organization that was dedicated to providing free housing and food to the elderly and not on a sectarian basis.
Jack Singer, Louis’ son, would go on to give back like his father did, in the 50s and in the 60s, when he took over as President of the Home of Old Israel, and constructed the largest senior housing district in the nation at the time; a place called Seagirt Village, located in Far Rockaway, Queens, NY.
The Singer tradition continued on in the 70s, when Jack’s son, Mike Singer, and his wife would open the Concept House in Florida, a nonprofit and comprehensive drug rehabilitation center that still treats 1000s of persons annually.
In 1986, Greg Singer Financial Corporation was founded by Greg Singer to specialize in providing real estate loans. By the early 90s, Singer, driven by the urge to follow in his forefathers strong philanthropist steps, found a project that would allow him to also give back to the community.
When a building was in trouble in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, Greg saw it as a way to step in and follow in his father’s, grandfather’s and great grandfather’s lineage. He purchased the Chesterfield Condominiums, which was being mismanaged by the previous owner, and remodeled and revitalized it, turning it into a gorgeous and modern building that to this day still provides free housing and social services for seniors.
At the present, Greg Singer in New York City is working on his latest project, the University House, where he is in the process of rehabbing a previously vacant building to convert it into modern, affordable dormitories for students in Manhattan.