Article: Weinstein's Way: know all the neighborhoods.(RESIDENTIAL PROFILE: Jerry Weinstein, president and founder, Manhattan Apartments Inc.)(Biography)

In the early 1980s, when Jerry Weinstein was a Brooklyn elementary school gym teacher whose martial arts prowess made him a favorite among students and teachers who were wowed by the fifth-degree black belt's spinning high kicks and board breaking punches, Weinstein found that his friends and coworkers were approaching him not for workout tips or how to repel an attacker on a dark city street, but where to score a cheap apartment.

In his spare time it turned out, Weinstein had cultivated a keen nose for finding deals and a sense for where the next up and coming neighborhood would emerge. Perhaps inspired by the gushing thanks of those who had tapped his ...

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