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Chabad Purchases Manhattan Building for $42 Million

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Chabad of Midtown Manhattan has closed on the purchase of a 12-story, 60,000 square foot building in New York City for $42 million, in one of the largest real estate deals in Chabad’s history.

The 12 story building, located near Grand Central Terminal and the New York Public Library’s main branch on 42nd street, has been occupied by the global Jewish movement for over 15 years.

“We serve three primary constituencies,” said Rabbi Joshua Metzger, the Chabad’s director. “The commuter working crowd, residential locals, and tourists and business travelers. Every year, tens of thousands of people walk through our doors to participate in our popular services and programs.”

Chabad currently runs a community center and synagogue out of the 42nd street building, which helps direct the activities of numerous Chabad houses in New York City, and erects one of Manhattan’s most famous sukkahs each year during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, placed in Midtown’s Bryant Park.

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9 Comments

  • MaDDinBklyn

    Congrats again chabad! Spend more millions on buildings in Manhattan to do “mivtzoim” while Crown Heights parents can’t afford to pay tuition for their kids schools here in Crown Heights! Perhaps if 60% of Crown Heights parents decided to send their kids to public schools, some chabadnik would finally decide to buy a building here in Crown Heights for a quarter of the price they paid in Manhattan to do “mivtzoim” on our Crown Heights kids.

  • david

    1. MaDDinBklyn wrote:
    Congrats again chabad! Spend more millions on buildings in Manhattan to do “mivtzoim” while Crown Heights parents can’t afford to pay tuition for their kids schools here in Crown Heights! Perhaps if 60% of Crown Heights parents decided to send their kids to public schools, some chabadnik would finally decide to buy a building here in Crown Heights for a quarter of the price they paid in Manhattan to do “mivtzoim” on our Crown Heights kids.

    THERE IS NOT FAME FOR DOING THAT SO IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN

  • Critic

    To#1
    Your so right.Imagine! The unmitigated chutzpah of this shliach to Midtown Manhattan who doesn’t live in CH .How dare he fulfill his shlichus to Manhattan by raising this $42 million dollars on his own without the help from anyone in CH.He should of realized that if he wouldn’t have raised the necessary funds for this building the people who can’t afford tuition for their children would then have the funds to do so.In fact why don’t we tear down every Chabad house across the world.This will certainly create an influx of millions of dollars to mitigate the tuition problem in CH.And how’s about the millions upon millions of dollars that has been raised by the head shliach to California.This alone could have made everyone in CH wealthy.Lets do the Obama thing. Lets share the “wealth” of these mean, money grubbing shluchim.The audacity of them.Who do they think they are with their sweat,blood and tears to raise money. How dare they fulfill the Rebbe’s shlichus!!!
    Down with the Chabad houses! Down with the Shluchim!Power to the people!

  • Sarah

    To #1: Complain to the Yeshivahs about their tuition fees, not the Shluchim who worked so hard to fundraise a dream of theirs. Or GET A JOB. Or DON’T HAVE MORE KIDS THAN YOU CAN AFFORD. The world does not have the responsibility to pay your bills!

  • Critic

    To numbers 1,2,3

    Yeh!Where do all these “wealthy” uppity Shluchim have the gall to set up Chabad “houses? Let them set up Chabad tents.If it was good enough for Avrohom avinu,the first kiruv ”professional“,it should be good for them.Metzger should pitch a tent on the corner of 42nd and fifth or better yet somewhere in the Mojave Dessert.Don’t these guys realize that its a mitzvah for shluchim to exist in abject poverty? Lets stop these expensive, ostentatious kinusim too while we’re at it.Let them stop building mikvohs, schools and other such money guzzling enterprises.Metzger close up your kollel,stop feeding the poor and stop with your silly unrealistic work in attracting hundreds of Jews to authentic Judaism every week.
    For every dollar they they raise for their Chabad houses they should raise 2 dollars for the bereft poor of CH so that they can lease their cars at Leasing Direct or redo their million dollar homes. .Like my mother A”H used to say to me “there are children in the world who are starving of hunger and you don’t want to finish your food?”

  • wondering

    oh sure! fundraising is lots of fun! pulling the hair from your head for 16 years to cover rent and payroll is just a bundle of fun! why dont you guys try it a bit! take some responsibility for your life, and stop with the entitlements! maybe we should forget about shlichus CVS, and concentrate on the poor in C.H.? I know people knned help but why pour out your wrath on people already working 24/7 to make a difference in people’s lives? look to our own community,for heavens sake!

  • shlomo as always with bad English

    to#1 and all that support her try google.com“ 11213 demographics ”