Akiva Kurland
(Akiva J. Kurland, AJ Kurland)
Ceo
Yellow Jacket Ventures
(YJV Capital)
Owner
1151 E 34th St Brooklyn, NY 11210
Yellow Jacket Ventures NYC portfolio
$52 million -development 40%, walkup 30%, elevator 28%; Bronx 59%, Brooklyn 40%*
2369th largest portfolio by dollar value
228,729 sqft – elevator 58%, walkup 38%, development 2%; Brooklyn 75%, Bronx 24%
1521th largest by SF
8 properties – Brooklyn 62%, Bronx 37%
1479th largest
312 residential units – Brooklyn 61%, Bronx 38%
904th largest by residential units
193 foreclosures, 1 bankruptcy, 0 other court cases.
Person Activity past 24 months:
Buyer signatory: 4 for $19.1 million
Borrower signatory: 1 for $5.8 million
Top Ten Associated Companies:
Elliot Tokayer (1), Citibank (1), Eloi Francis estate (1), Amalgamated Bank (1), Northeast Community Bank (1), Aulder Capital (1), Brenda Elishis (1), Marco Cepeda (1), JPMorgan Chase (1), Jonas Equities (1)
Top Ten Associated People:
Elliot Tokayer (1), Susan Sykes (1), Lewis I. Knopf (1), Jacob Nimmer (1), Robert Johnson (1), Brenda Elishis (1), Marco Cepeda (1), Ursula Flores (1), Lawrence Bernstein (1)
Recent activity as signatory:
• Aj Kurland filed plans for major alteration for 4,160 sqft in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on August 18, 2026.
• Marco Cepeda sold None for $2.5 million to Yellow Jacket Ventures on May 28, 2026.
• Elliot Tokayer sold 29 Miller Avenue for $4.2 million to Yellow Jacket Ventures on October 16, 2025.
• Yellow Jacket Ventures borrowed $5.8 million from JPMorgan Chase for 1 Chester Court on February 26, 2025.
• Jonas Equities sold 1 Chester Court for $8.2 million to Yellow Jacket Ventures on February 26, 2025.
• Jacob Zicherman borrowed $16.6 million from Popular Bank for Livonia avenue on December 27, 2024.
• Brenda Elishis sold 540 Ocean Avenue for $4.2 million to Akiva Kurland on November 04, 2024.
• Yellow Jacket Ventures borrowed $16 million from Amalgamated Bank for 19 Mount Hope Place on December 29, 2023.
• Aulder Capital sold 390 East 21 Street for $1.4 million to Yellow Jacket Ventures on August 23, 2023.
• Eloi Francis estate sold 641 East 21 Street for $2.2 million to Yellow Jacket Ventures on March 22, 2023.
Latest Stories:
• Yellow Jacket Ventures pays $2.5M for 49-unit rental in Soundview (June 11, 2026)
• Yellow Jacket Ventures pays $4.2M for 54-unit rental in Cypress Hills (November 14, 2025)
• Jacob Zicherman signs $16.6M construction loan for dev site in Brownsville (February 10, 2025)
• Akiva Kurland pays $4.2M for 40-unit walkup in Flatbush (November 21, 2024)
• Jacob Zicherman pays $3.1M for dev site in Brownsville (January 31, 2024)
• Yellow Jacket Ventures pays $2.2M for 22-unit walkup in Flatbush (April 20, 2023)