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The New York Real Estate Tycoon Who Brought His Surfboards to Work

VISION BY THE SQUARE FOOT

Protégé of the swashbuckling mogul Harry Macklowe, Kent Swig was a West Coast guy angling to succeed in the rough world of New York real estate. But Swig saw things others didn’t.

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