Background
Chanin was born to a Jewish family, the son of an immigrant from Poland and an immigrant from Poltava.
Chanin was born to a Jewish family, the son of an immigrant from Poland and an immigrant from Poltava.
In 1915, he graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in civil engineering.
In 1925, they built the 46th Street Theater, the first of six theaters built on Broadway. In 1930, they built a twin-towered housing cooperative skyscraper named The Majestic and then The Century. Other notable buildings include the Chanin Building, Richard Rodgers Theatre, the Lincoln Hotel (now Row New York City Hotel), the Beacon Hotel and Theater, and the World Apparel Center.
Chanin was also known for developing the "Green Acres" section of Valley Stream, New New York Ground broke in 1936 but only Phase I (known as the "old section") was completed before World World War World War II After the war construction resumed and the "new section" was completed by 1959.
This section included the balance of the residential homes, the Forest Road Elementary School, the Green Acres Shopping Center (now, the Green Acres Mall) and the Green Acres Garden Apartments.