Stephen L. Green

Stephen Lawrence Green is an American real estate developer. He is the founder and former chairman of SL Green Realty Corp., which claims to be Manhattan’s largest owner of office buildings. He retired in January 2019 and is now chairman emeritus. He has been chairman of the company since 1997. His father was a lawyer and landlord while his mother was a teacher.

Green worked as an attorney in Houston, Texas, for Vinson & Elkins for several years before starting an import-export firm specializing in the sale of hair products from Asia. He later sold that business and started a travel company that chartered airliners and sold ski vacations in the American West and Europe. His strategy was to buy Class B office buildings, invest in remodeling their lobbies, facades, and amenity space, and then raise the rents closer to Class A levels as older tenants moved out. According to the SL Green Realty Corp. website, the company has investment interests in 77 Manhattan office buildings comprising nearly 40 million square feet of space.

In 2007, he bought Air America radio network and appointed his brother Mark Green as the network's president.

Personal life Green married Sandra Elaine Turboff (now Sandy Garfunkel) on June 21, 1961. They had three sons, Daniel Eric, Gary Michael, and Scott Tucker Green.

Green is married to Nancy Ann Peck, who runs Nancy Peck & Co, an interior design company. Nancy has a son by a previous marriage, Jonathan Peck.

Green is Jewish and participated in the 1985 and 1989 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a bronze medal in squash in 1985.