Rob Frischman • President

Rob Frischman, Founder and President, has been selling and managing real estate in the New York Metro region for more than 20 years. A graduate of Clark University, Rob is the leader of JDF Realty, Inc., a highly motivated and savvy group of commercial brokerage veterans. Rob began his real estate career with Algin Management in Forest Hills, NY as a property manager handling such properties as Hilary Gardens and Laurence Towers in Manhattan. After obtaining an Associate Broker's license at age 23, Frischman moved to Chodosh Realty Services in Tribeca. At Chodosh Realty, his primary focus was the retail lease-up of the newly developed and highly ambitious Red Square mixed use, project developed by Mike Gruss and Michael Rosen in the East Village. In addition to Red Square, Frischman established his niche in the downtown market by arranging a number of retail and art gallery lease transactions in Soho and Tribeca. A notable transaction arranged in 1988 was the Gin Market, located at 111 Hudson Street. This deal was significant to the growth of the block, which is now the home of Nobu and its counterpart, Next Door Nobu as well as Bubby's and Issey Miyake. With the continued dearth of supermarkets in Tribeca, the recently renovated Gin Market remains a popular destination for Tribecans. Rob founded JDF Realty, Inc. in 1992 after three years of success with Chodosh. Since then, Frischman has complemeted JDF's strong retail leasing expertise with office and institutional leasing, restaurant leasing and sales, as well as investment sales. Significant transactions Rob has arranged include the creation of the downtown Manhattan campus of Nyack College, totaling more than 70,000 square feet at 335 Broadway and 361 Broadway. Frischman arranged the lease and development of 28 residential apartments at the Tower at 242 East 14th Street to NYU School of Medicine. More recently, Frischman as exclusive agent for Red Apple Child Development Centers, arranged lease transactions at 101 West End Avenue, 25 Tudor City Place, 600 Avenue of the Americas, 1190 Park Avenue, 1501 Lexington Avenue and 351 West 42nd Street in Manhattan. Rob also arranged the sale of the net lease of the former Bargain World department store building at 6-14 West 125th Street to a group of investors. The last few years have seen the bar raised dramatically at JDF Realty. Done deals include the Veloce chain of wine bars, Buddakan, Morimoto, Telepan, Japonais, Alto, Boqueria, Pure Food and Wine, Rocco's and L'Impero. Last year, Rob was responsible for the relocation and expansion deal to move Whole Foods Market in Millburn, NJ to a new site in Vauxhall, NJ. So far this year, JDF Realty has relocated Oscar Gruss and Son to 292 Madison Avenue and has been hired to represent Mike Gruss to lease its landmark townhouse across the street from Goldman Sachs. Jeffrey Lefcourt of Jane restaurant on West Houston Street has signed a lease for the Pizzeria Uno on Third Avenue to build a restaurant and market. Finally, Rob has sold 107 Reade Street in Tribeca to the owners of the Cosmopolitan Hotel for the addition of up to 30 new rooms and a lobby expansion. Rob is a member of the Retail Stores Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers. As 2007 marks the 15 year anniversary of the founding of JDF Realty, Rob believes that the future is brighter than ever and looks forward to continuing success with all of JDF Realty's clients, customers, colleagues and associates.

Benjamin Kahr • Managing Director

Benjamin Kahr, has been active in the New York Metropolitan area as a commercial leasing broker and consultant since 1985. During his career Benjamin has negotiated a ten-year lease renewal for 32,400 square feet for the law firm Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, P.C., one of the country's most respected law firms. In 1992, he also represented them on their relocation and expansion move to its current location at 565 Fifth Avenue. This long term relationship best exemplifies Benjamin’s ability to create and maintain long term business relationships. Recently, Benjamin represented Aquamarine in their expansion to Carnegie Towers, as well as other hedge funds in their opening of offices in the Plaza District such as Empirica Capital LLC - from Greenwich, Connecticut to 4,000 sq. ft. at 110 East 59 Street; Bainbridge Partners - to 1,500 sq. ft. at 1270 6th Avenue; Quest Partners - to 2,200 sq. ft. at 126 East 56 Street; Camelot Partners, LLC to 2,650 sq. ft. at 540 Madison Avenue. Mr. Kahr has also successfully represented the Gramercy House, at 235 East 22 Street (Second Avenue) in its retail leasing redevelopment. Mr. Kahr transformed stores that had been vacant for over seven years, outlined a comprehensive plan to re-do storefronts and make them uniform. He represented both the co-op in its negotiations with Pro-Health Pharmacy, Gramercy Fish, The French Butcher, and AT & T Wireless. Other recently completed transactions as Landlord's representative include a 19,500 square foot lease for Town Sports Inc. and 5,100 square feet for Signature Bank at 26 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Benjamin has completed tenant transactions that include Axinn, Veltrop and Harkrider LLP, 15,000 sq. ft, Bloomberg L.P., in an expansion in Boston, Sat Metrix.com in 6,000 square feet loft and 11,000 square feet in Salt Lake City, Utah, Daewoo Motor in acquiring a 275,000 square foot site for it's first New York area automobile showroom and service center and Peter Sharp & Company Inc., former owners of The Carlyle Hotel, 1370 Sixth Avenue and 450 Park Avenue in the expansion and relocation of their corporate offices to a full floor at 545 Madison Avenue and this past year to 845 Third Avenue. Past transactions were Blackacre Capital Group, one of the newest investors in New York City Real Estate in it's expansion and relocation to a floor and a half at 450 Park Avenue, AT & T Easy Link in it's relocation and expansion to a full floor at 3 New York Plaza. Benjamin has been a member of the Real Estate Board of New York and served on the Midtown West Office Building Committee.

Jango Kerasilo • Associate

Mair Rosh • Associate

Perry Rothenberg • Senior Associate Broker

Perry Rothenberg is a New York City veteran broker that joined the JDF team in September 2004. With over 30 years of experience, knowledge of the market and a wide contact base Perry has been able to succeed in the Rental and Sale of over 2 million square feet of space. Before joining the firm he was at Douglas Elliman for more than 10 years and before that was the owner of Creative Leasing Concepts in Tribeca. CLC was on the cutting edge of the gentrification of Tribeca focusing on both residential and commercial transactions. After CLC merged with Douglas Elliman, Rothenberg led the expansion of the downtown commercial and retail division. Rothenberg is also an owner of properties both in Manhattan and Virginia and brings the ownership experience to the brokerage business.

Leslie Siben • Director of Retail Leasing

When Leslie Siben joined JDF Realty in September 2002 as Director of Restaurant Retail Services, she was looking to expand her already thriving restaurant real estate practice. She couldn’t have made a better choice. JDF Realty may be smaller than other firms she has worked at, “but it’s much more synergetic and communal, and the support I get here is phenomenal.” Since arriving at JDF Realty, Siben has become New York City’s leading restaurant brokerage specialist for high-end, boutique restaurants, and has succeeded in brokering some of the largest restaurant deals in the city, including: Morimoto, Buddakan, Telepan, Japonias and Rocco’s ‘The Restaurant’. Siben began her professional career as an attorney, but the lure of the commercial real estate world soon drew her in. Her first brokerage position began in 1988 at New Spectrum, where she spent six years working on a variety of retail transactions including restaurants. In 1993 she joined Winick Realty Group to focus on boutique-style restaurants. At Winick she developed strong relationships with the city’s top chefs and restaurant owners as well as attorneys, contractors and other industry professionals. There she brokered deals for Red Square (now The Kobe Club), Jane, Sage and Cloves. After 8 years at Winick, Siben joined JDF Realty, a decision she thanks herself for making everyday. “It’s exciting to work on the big stuff, and gratifying that I can complete deals with really experienced operators. No deal ever runs completely smoothly, that’s just the nature of this business; but at JDF, there’s a strong capability to work out the problems.” Siben is a lifelong Manhattan resident and she constantly taps into her knowledge of the city to help restaurateurs discover the ideal location. She is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York since 1988, a member of the Real Estate Board of New York Stores Committee since 1994 and a regular contributor to the local real estate coverage by the NY Post and NY Times real estate press.

Drew Weiss • Associate