A Downtown Brooklyn apartment building owned by the son of a notorious landlord is headed for the auction block, according to a notice that appeared in court records Monday.
Richard Ohebshalom, CEO of Murray Hill-based real estate firm Pink Stone Capital Group, whose father is Fred Ohebshalom, CEO of Empire Management, is slated to lose the 10-story property at 180 Nassau St. to the highest bidder Thursday, documents show. In August the Kings County Supreme Court issued a judgment of $58 million plus interest on the building, dubbed Brooklyn Warehouse 180.
Of the building’s 103 rental units, which Richard Ohebshalom referred to as luxurious in a social media post marketing the property, just two are currently available, according to StreetEasy. They are a studio that is in contract for $2,995 per month and a two-bedroom listed for $4,012 per month.
Midtown-based lender Prime Finance foreclosed on the property, between Bridge and Duffield streets, in 2022 after Ohebshalom allegedly defaulted on the original $52 million loan from 2014, the same year Pink Stone Capital Group built the project, records show. Jon Brayshaw, co-founder of Prime Finance, signed the affidavit, according to court documents.
Through his attorneys, Matthew Schenker and Brett Berman of Midtown-based law firm Fox Rothschild, Ohebshalom filed an appeal of the court’s decision late last year, records show, although it appears not to have impacted the pending auction. Neither Schenker nor Berman responded to a request for comment by press time.
Attorneys Bradley Gardner and Alina Levi of Midtown firm Polsinelli, who are representing the lender, also did not return a request for comment by press time.
Ohebshalom’s father, Fred, sold one of his properties in Greenwich Village last May for nearly $20 million, Crain’s reported. He has previously been accused of failing to safely maintain a number of residential buildings and was sued by the city in 2023 for allegedly allowing serious safety hazards to go unchecked at eight apartment buildings in Upper Manhattan.
