Paul Milstein

Paul Milstein (May 12, 1922 – August 9, 2010) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist.

Early life Paul Milstein was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. In 1919, his father Morris Milstein, an immigrant from Zhytomyr, Ukraine (in what was then the Russian Empire), started out as a floor scraper, founded the Circle Floor Company, Inc., a wood flooring company, and later, the Mastic Tile Company, a vinyl flooring company.

Milstein attended DeWitt Clinton High School and New York University for two years before joining the U.S. Army during World War II where he served in the Army Signal Corps in Missouri. Their company was acquired by Kinney Services Corporation in 1964, with the Milsteins remaining as managers of the unit until 1971

In 1989, the Milstein family acquired Douglas Elliman-Gibbons & Ives residential real estate brokerage.

In 1986, the Milsteins acquired the Emigrant Savings Bank, which became the largest privately owned bank in the country. In 2004, the Milsteins founded the New York Private Bank & Trust which targets high wealth families.

Philanthropy Paul Milstein and his wife Irma established the

Personal life Paul Milstein was married to Irma Cameron for 63 years. They had four children, Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Howard, Barbara, and Edward.

Paul Milstein died on August 9, 2010, in Manhattan, New York City, and is buried at the Westchester Cemetery.