Peter S. Kalikow
Peter S. Kalikow ( born December 1, 1942 in Queens, New York City ) is an American entrepreneur and avid car collector.
Life
Peter Kalikow is of Russian Jewish descent and directs as President, which was founded by his grandfather in 1927 New York Real Estate Company HJ Kalikow & Company, LLC.
He graduated from Hofstra University and earned the 1965 Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Kalikow began his career as a Realtor in 1967 and in 1973 President of HJ Kalikow & Co. After the death of his father, Peter Kalikow took over in 1982 the responsibility for all Kalikow holding.
From the publisher Rupert Murdoch Kalikow bought in 1988 by the New York tabloid New York Post for $ 37.6 million, then converted to 63 million DM Following the acquisition of a New York television in 1986, Murdoch should have separated from the newspaper earlier because it was forbidden to publish a newspaper in the same market and operate a television station. However, the expiry of the temporary exemption until March 6, 1988 the state authorities forced Murdoch finally for sale. When asked about his reasons for the purchase of America's oldest newspaper said Kalikow: "I did not know that later is on my grave stone: He built a lot of houses in Queens. I want more. "
After the collapse of the land market Kalikow had to sign personal bankruptcy in 1992. Steven Hoffenberg, a shady financier who took over the " New York Post " and sold it after barely two months to the real estate businessman Abraham Hirschfeld, which the sheet back to the 1993 News Corp. Ltd.. the major Australian publisher Rupert Murdoch sold.
From 1994 to 1995 Peter Kalikow member of the board of the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority ), the public transport company of the State of New York, the U -Bahn (New York City Subway ), buses and railways was carried on any business day average of around 8 million people.
1995 Kalikow member of the "Board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey" was changed and 2001 MTA, whose chairman he remained until May 2007. The New York Magazine headline: The " Underground Man". For his job as president of the MTA Kalikow received no salary.
In May 2000, Kalikow Board Chairman of " Grand Central Partnership ", a Business Improvement District ( BID) in New York City. Kalikow is this 70 - block large urban area well known because his company controls 10 buildings in the city and has its headquarters in the showpiece object 101 Park Avenue.
In 2006, he donated the Hofstra University the " Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency ."
Peter Kalikow is married to Mary ( née Mary Typaldos Jacobatos ) and the couple have two children, a son, Nicholas Alexander and a daughter Kathryn Harold.
Car collection
By his own count to Peter Kalikow - in addition to various other vehicles - have about 50 Ferraris. Other sources speak of more than 60 vehicles, including 25 Ferraris, which will be deposited and maintained in the garage of his New York office building on Park Avenue 101. As compensation for office stress he drives occasionally down into the air-conditioned basement: " I simply sit in a Ferrari cockpit or caress the bodywork. Then I get very quiet, " quoted him as a reporter. This includes the models of the late 50s and early 60s to his favorites. He regularly uses his Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California models of the first (unofficial GT Spyder California LWB = Long Wheel Base ) and second series ( unofficially GT Spyder California SWB = Short Wheel Base ) and his Ferrari 400 Superamerica Aerodinamica. For his collection include a Ferrari 330 America ( FGN 5105 ), a Ferrari 400 Superamerica and a Ferrari 250 GTO replica, which on a Ferrari 330 GT 2 2 Series II ( FGN 9325 ) is based. He also owns a Ferrari 500 Superfast with covered headlights, a Ferrari 412 and modern models like the Ferrari F50, Ferrari 360 Spider and Ferrari 456 GT, as well as several vehicles from Jaguar, Rolls -Royce, Aston Martin and Cadillac. Each of his car wearing a "K" on the license plate.
Peter Kalikow is a regular participant at the Concorso d' Eleganza Villa d' Este. At this event, he let fly a red 2005 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider. In 2006, the jury chose his practically -new Ferrari 410 Superamerica of 1959 with Pininfarina bodywork overall winner ( " Best of Show"). The magazine Octane reported in detail on this car, which was originally painted in white with blue stripes.
In 1967, Kalikow decided to implement his own car project: the Momo Mirage. The small series in the early 1970s, however, could not be produced economically as planned and so it remained at only a few copies. Peter Kalikow presented a silver Momo Mirage at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d' Este 2009.
2007 Pininfarina designed for Kalikow Ferrari 612 K based on a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. The K and Kappa stands for Kalikow. Kalikows unique Ferrari 612 has the serial number 145746 and is painted in the color Blue Pozzi.
45 years after buying his first Ferrari to Kalikow made in 2011 based on a Ferrari 599 GTB a single piece with retractable roof make the Ferrari Superamerica 45
Awards
In 1986 he was appointed by Hofstra University honorary doctorate. 1988 Kalikow was named Alumnus of the Year.
2008 Peter Kalikow for his outstanding service as a cultural ambassador, and for its economic and philanthropic achievements of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana ) was made a Commander ( Commendatore ).