Background
Uris was born to a Jewish family, the son of Sadie (née Copland) and Harris Uris, an immigrant from Russia and founder of an ornamental ironwork factory.
Uris was born to a Jewish family, the son of Sadie (née Copland) and Harris Uris, an immigrant from Russia and founder of an ornamental ironwork factory.
Columbia University.
After World World War II, the brothers focused on commercial development, with Harold handling the construction and Percy the financial aspects. Claiming to be the largest private developers in New York City, the Uris Brothers primarily used architect Emery Roth. In 1960, they created Uris Buildings Corporation as a real estate investment company.
One of the last buildings the brothers built together was the Uris Building housing the Uris Theater.
Soon after Percy"s death in 1971, Harold sold the corporation to National Kinney Corporation for $115 million, but the assets were soon foreclosed in New York"s real estate recession. In 1956, the brothers created the Uris Brothers Foundation donating generously to Cornell, Columbia, and the Metropolitan Museum of Artist
In 1962, the main University Library building was renamed Uris Library. In 1998, the Uris Brothers Foundation was dissolved after donating all its remaining assets: $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, $10 million to the Central Park Conservancy, $3 million to the New York Public Library, $3 million to Thirteen/W National Educational Television, $2.5 million to Carnegie Hall, and $1.5 million to the New School for Social Research.
Uris was married and had two daughters: Mistress
Allan Levitt and Mistress Peter Koolavitch. He died on November 20, 1971 in Palm Beach, Florida. Uris Brothers developed the following buildings either solely or jointly with others
Hotel Carter
930 Fifth Avenue
880 Fifth Avenue (Emery Roth"s final building)
2 Sutton Place
55 Water Street, 1972, New York
American Tobacco Company Building
J.C. Penney Building (333 East 33rd Street)
International Telephone & Telegraph Building
Radio Corporation of America Communications Building (60 Broad Street)
Paramount Plaza, 1971, New York (also included the Gershwin Theatre then called the Uris Theatre
245 Park Avenue, 1967, New York
Hilton Washington, 1965, Washington, District of Columbia
Cr Lyonnais Building, 1964, New York
New York Hilton, 1963, New York
Look Building 488 Madison Avenue, 1950, New York (on National Register of Historic Places)
380 Madison Avenue
300 Park Avenue (Colgate-Palmolive Building)
575 Madison Avenue
485 Lexington Avenue
750 Third Avenue
2 Broadway
850 Third Avenue
320 Park Avenue
350 Park Avenue (Manufacturers Hanover Trust Building)
1290 Avenue of the Americas (Sperry Rand Building)
1301 Avenue of the Americas
111 Wall Street
1633 Broadway
10 East 53rd Street.