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Stanford Mordecai Dinstein (born February 29, 1948) was an American businessman, Certified Public Accountant, and former E-8 Sergeant in the National Guard, known mostly for being a member of Two Trees Management who re-developed the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Brooklyn Overpass) waterfront and winning the entrepreneur of the year award in the state of South Carolina in 1994 for revamping the now defunct public trucking company Builders Transport.

Early life. Dinstein was born on February 29, 1948, in Queens, New York. His mother, Elaine (née Keller), was a homemaker. His father, David Dinstein, was a former store owner on the Upper East Side. Dinstein is of Russian ancestry. Dinstein has an older brother named Michael who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry. His great Uncle Milton Keller was a prominent retail businessman. His cousin Roger Keller is an accomplished musician. He was raised as Jewish. He spent summers working in the Catskills. He was raised in Flushing, Queens.

Career. Dinstein worked at the well-known New York real estate company Two Trees Management rising up through the ranks to become the Chief Financial officer. Two Trees management was known for gut-rehabbing prewar buildings such as Alwyn Court, the Silk Building, 110 Livingston Street, and the Clocktower Condominium as well as other buildings in DUMBO. He also worked at the public trucking company Builders Transport rising up through the ranks to become its Chief Executive Officer.

Personal life. He married Rachelle Marcie (née Gabel) on August 5th, 1972. They adopted two sons, Russell Todd Dinstein (born March 28, 1980) and Daniel Keith Dinstein (born July 6, 1980). They first lived in Alwyn Court from 1980-1983, the Silk building from 1983-1986 where Keith Richards was the next-door neighbor, and where eventually they sold their apartment to Cher. They lived in the Hampton House from 1986-1998, and the Strathmore from 1998-1999. Dinstein was an avid collector of sports memorabilia, baseball cards, and rare coins. He built radios from scratch and flew model airplanes in his spare time. In 1988, he bought a Tandy computer which he built from scratch. He was a fan of sports cars and he owned his own Alfa Romeo “Spider” in the 1980s. He was enthusiastic about playing golf. He attend Micky Mantle and Whitey Ford’s baseball camp for several years where he befriended Micky Mantle. His friends included Larry Budabin who he grew up with in Queens, Richard Fischbein of Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding, and Andy Alpstein of Goldberg Weprin & Ustin LLP. In his earlier years, he purchased a house in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania which he visited on weekends. He was a season ticket holder of the New York Yankees. He loved to play craps and would frequently travel to Atlantic City and back via helicopter.

Death. One day before he and his family were set to move to the Clocktower Condominium at 1 Main Street, died suddenly on December 28th, 1998 in the hospital from a rupture in his intestines from a prior hernia operation. For a time, his widow Rachelle maintained a scholarship at Baruch College in her deceased husband’s name called the Stanford Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Awards and nominations. 1994, State of South Carolina, Entrepreneur of the Year Certified Public Accountant Masters of Business Administration, Baruch College City College, Psychology

External links. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/25/classified/paid-notice-deaths-dinstein-stanford.html