Cohen Global is a New York City family office that designs, builds, and repositions residential properties across Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens — twenty-five years of principal-owned development on a single, disciplined balance sheet.
Cohen Global Inc. is a New York City–based real estate development and investment firm operated as a family office by principals Yona Cohen and Shalom (Shlomi) Cohen, with their son Daniel Cohen serving as President. Across more than twenty-five years of continuous operation, the Cohens have built and repositioned residential properties on a principal-equity basis alongside institutional bank financing — retaining discretionary control over deal selection, underwriting, construction, and disposition across every cycle.
The firm’s track record encompasses fifty-four verified completed addresses across three boroughs, representing more than 233,500 square feet of documented above-grade gross floor area and approximately 216 residential units. The work spans new ground-up construction, condominium development, multifamily renovation, and adaptive reuse of pre-war walk-up buildings.
“We underwrite every project with our own equity at risk. The discipline that creates is the only kind that lasts through a cycle.” — The Cohen Family Office
New residential buildings — primarily three-family walk-ups and condominium clusters — constructed on vacant or cleared lots. Block-level execution across the Dean Street and Utica Avenue corridors demonstrates the firm’s ability to permit, build, and deliver multiple adjacent properties as a single coordinated program.
Acquisition and renovation of pre-war walk-up apartment buildings, with conversion to improved residential use. The strategy is rooted in twenty-five years of NYC operating history across Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, and the South Bronx — where long-standing local relationships and lender history reduce execution risk.
Gut renovation and condominium conversion of existing residential buildings into individually sellable units. Executed selectively where neighborhood absorption, building footprint, and underlying basis support a viable offering plan.
Conversion of commercial or light-industrial space into residential or mixed-use buildings — typically larger pre-war structures with attractive bones, repositioned for the modern NYC residential renter or owner.
Source: NYC MapPLUTO v25v4 (NYC Department of City Planning, drawing on NYC DOB records).
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documented minimums, with actual sponsor-controlled construction volume potentially higher.
Three projects are in active development. Project-level scope, schedule, and waterfall detail are maintained in standalone deal materials, available to qualified counterparties on request.
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