Sam Charney
(Samuel Charney)
Founder
Principal
Charney Companies
Charney Companies NYC portfolio
$876 million* – industrial 58%, office 12%, development 11%; Brooklyn 75%, Queens 17%, Manhattan 7%
200th largest portfolio by dollar value
258,141 sqft – specialty 30%, elevator 25%, industrial 13%;
1032th largest by SF
18 properties – Brooklyn 61%, Queens 33%, Manhattan 5%
411th largest
1,054 residential units – Brooklyn 89%, Queens 6%, Manhattan 4%
240th largest by residential units
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Person Activity past 24 months:
Buyer signatory: 2 for $202 million
Borrower signatory: 4 for $252.8 million
Developer (new building or major alteration): 27 for 282,380 square feet
Top Ten Associated Companies:
Madison Realty Capital (3), RFR Holding (1), Silver Point Capital (1), Riverside Church in the City of New York (1), Dean Maltz (1), Arbor Realty Trust (1), Santander Bank (1)
Top Ten Associated People:
Thomas Lavin (1), Steven Weiser (1), Natalie Fein (1), Dean Maltz (1), Susana Iannicelli (1), David Speiser (1)
Recent activity as signatory:
• Charney Companies and Tavros Capital borrowed $110 million from Silver Point Capital for 175 Third Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn on April 30, 2025.
• RFR Holding sold 175 Third Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn for $164 million to Charney Companies and Tavros Capital on April 30, 2025.
• Charney Companies borrowed $85 million from Madison Realty Capital for 95 Rockwell Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn on May 02, 2025.
• Charney Companies borrowed $49.5 million from Madison Realty Capital for 97 Claremont Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan on March 18, 2024.
• Charney Companies borrowed $8.2 million from Madison Realty Capital for 97 Claremont Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan on March 18, 2024.
• Riverside Church in the City of New York sold 97 Claremont Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan for $38 million to Charney Companies on March 18, 2024.
• Samuel Charney filed plans for new building for 161,253 sqft in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on October 20, 2023.
• Charney Companies borrowed $30 million from Arbor Realty Trust for 10-27 50th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens on March 31, 2023.
• Samuel Charney filed plans for new building for 61,639 sqft in Long Island City, Queens, on February 11, 2022.
• Dean Maltz sold 14 Lincoln Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn for $3.8 million to Charney Companies on November 15, 2021.
Latest Stories:
• Charney, Tavros, pay $164M to RFR for dev site in Gowanus (May 14, 2025)
• Charney Companies files plans to create 240 dorm rooms in Morningside Heights (March 12, 2025)
• RFR signs $82.4M refi with Madison Realty Capital for Gowanus dev site (November 07, 2024)
• Charney Companies pays $3.8M to Flatiron Real Estate for rental in Park Slope (December 14, 2021)
• Charney Companies gets new $21M construction loan for additional LIC dev site (August 17, 2020)