Simon Dushinsky

Dushinsky was born and raised in Israel and belongs to the Vizhnitz Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.^[1] Dushinsky co-founded The Rabsky Group with Isaac Rabinowitz in the early 1990s and focused on developing condominiums for the Hasidic community. In 2002, he completed his first major development, a $40 million, six-building Park Plaza condo complex for Hasidic residents.^[1] In 2007, The Rabsky Group purchased a 50 percent stake in six industrial buildings owned by the Chetrit Group (founded by Joseph Chetrit) for $4 million.^[1] His firm lead the redevelopment of the buildings due to their familiarity with the neighborhood.^[1] As of 2015, his firm is working on several large projects in New York City including a 500-unit Bushwick rental building which is part of the Rheingold Brewery redevelopment^[2][3][4] with 200 affordable housing units.^[5][6] a 777-unit rental building in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the former Pfizer Corporation site;^[1][7][8] and a 44-story, 400-unit residential rental building in Long Island City, Queens. In 2015 - in his first non-residential venture - he is partnering with Toby Moskovits’ Heritage Equity Partners to build a 400,000-square-foot office building in Williamsburg.^[1]

Dushinsky is currently focused on attracting young renters to Bushwick, Brooklyn which he sees as the next development hotspot.^[1] Along with fellow Hasidic developers Joseph Brunner, Isaac Hager, Yoel Goldman, and Joel Schreiber he is one of the most prominent developers in Brooklyn^[9][10][11] credited with helping to gentrify Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Borough Park, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.^[10]

Dushinsky is known for being very private and modest.^[1] He is married with six children.^[1] He has made political donations to the campaigns of Melinda Katz, David Yassky, and former City Council Speaker Gifford Miller.^[1]