Isaac Hager

Isaac Hager is an American real estate developer who founded the New York City-based Cornell Realty Management.

Biography Isaac "Itzy" Hager was born in the 1970s and belongs to the Vizhnitz Hasidic Jewish community based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The grandson of Rabbi Mordechai Hager, he was raised in the small village of Kaser, New York founded by his grandfather.

Since 2017, he has faced opposition from activists when he proposed building a 565-unit apartment complex in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; in April 2019, a judge issued a restraining order against the project. His company, along with city councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, are defendants in a case about the controversial rezoning near the Brooklyn Botanical Garden that would allow for oversize towers to be built there.

Along with fellow Hasidic developers Simon Dushinsky, Yoel Goldman, and Joel Schreiber, he is considered a prolific real estate developer in Brooklyn.

Personal life He is married to Shifra Hager.