About The Durst Organization
For over 100 years, The Durst Organization has been a family-owned business dedicated to the principles of innovation, integrity, community, and sustainability. We build, own, and operate many of the world's most innovative and efficient office and residential buildings. Our enduring relationships with our tenants are critical to our success and have made us generations of builders, building for generations.
In 1915, Durst family patriarch and matriarch, Joseph and Rose, founded The Durst Organization with a simple philosophy: “Leave each place better than you found it.” This ethos has driven The Durst Organization to develop cutting-edge offices and residences for four generations.
The Durst Organization currently owns, and manages 13 million square feet of premiere Manhattan office towers and a residential rental portfolio comprising of more than 3,400 rental apartments built, with several thousand in the pipeline. Development and ongoing management are at the core of our business and are the foundation of our corporate identity.
The company’s current leadership, grandsons Douglas and Jonathan (Jody) Durst, built One Five One in the 1990s, the first “green” skyscraper constructed in the United States and a catalyst for the revitalization of Times Square. The following decade, The Durst Organization built the most environmentally advanced skyscraper in the United States, the LEED Platinum One Bryant Park.
In 2011, The Durst Organization became an owner of One World Trade Center, responsible for leasing, marketing, and managing the three million-square-foot LEED Gold office tower.
The Durst Organization’s distinctive residential portfolio includes the residential superblock 57 WEST, bounded by 11th and 12th Avenues and 57th and 58th Streets. This residential superblock transforms what was vacant lots and blighted industrial sites into one of Manhattan’s most architecturally significant and desirable residential neighborhoods. Other residential properties include: EŌS (100 West 31 Street), Historic Front Street in Manhattan, SVEN in Long Island City and Halletts Point in Astoria.
As part of our commitment to sustainability, Durst co-founded the Model Organic Farm Foundation in the late 1980’s. This nonprofit organization operates McEnroe Organic Farm – one of the largest organic farms in New York State – and benefits from the organic waste collection program integrated throughout Durst’s commercial and residential properties.