All Roads in South Blooming Grove Lead Back to Keen Equities

Today, we continue mapping out the people behind this law-breaking entity and what they stand to gain by its success.

Let’s talk Mangin LLC, the 3rd largest shareholder in Keen Equities. 

In documentation provided to the United States Bankruptcy Court, Mangin LLC is listed as owning 10.44% of Keen Equities. 

That places them behind Zigmond Brach’s WBBF Equities LLC, which owns 19.35%, and Jacob Gold’s JGBUSA LLC, which owns 11.61%. 

We’ll revisit Mr. Zigmond Brach at the end of this article.

Jacob Gold, you’ll remember, is the president of Windsor Global. A company that South Blooming Grove Assistant to the Village Mayor, Joel Stern, identifies himself as the Chief Operating Officer of. Yehoshua C. Rubin also identifies himself as an employee of Windsor Global on all Clovewood documentation submitted to the DEC.

Gold and Brach were previously plaintiffs together in a lawsuit to dissolve the Village of South Blooming Grove.

When their lawsuit failed, many of the plaintiffs formed Keen Equities LLC.

Let’s start with the basics.

On the bankruptcy documentation, Mangin LLC provided a post office box address of 2840, Monroe, New York, 10949. That 10949 zip code belongs to the Village of Monroe.

Thanks to the lawsuit of Solomon Schwimmer v. Pincus Strulovich et all, we also now have the incorporation documents for Mangin LLC.

You can see that document here.

On August 6th, 2007, Judith Anne Mangin sold her land for $1.6M with the promise to subdivide it.

Isidore Perlstein signed the incorporation documents for Mangin LLC, which were stamped by the New York State Department on August 15th, 2007.

Just 8 days after the sale of Judith Anne Mangin to an assorted cast of characters, including at least two plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Village of South Blooming Grove.

The incorporation form was prepared for Mr. Perlstein by City Trading Enterprise LLC, located at 26 Ruzhin Road, #202, in Monroe, New York, 10950.

Since that time, Mr. Perlstein has died.

But his partner, and the person he signed a lease agreement on behalf of, is still with us: Mr. Pincus Strulovitch aka Joseph Strulovitch (among a multitude of other aliases according to BeenVerified.com)

Since signing the articles of incorporation in 2007, it also appears Pincus’s son, Abe, is also now also involved with Mangin LLC.

But Pincus and Abe aren’t the only players at this company.

Solomon Schwimmer v. Pincus Strulovich et all

This court case gets really complicated, but basically Judith Anne Mangin was supposed to subdivide her land among a variety of actors including Pincus Strulovich, Mendel Schwimmer, and a company known as Green Heights Incorporated (GHI.) GHI would later be dissolved in 2011.

Strulovich and Schwimmer back then, and their children today, are Mangin LLC.

The ownership structure looks like this:

Joseph Strulovitch aka Pincus Strulovich (and later, Abe Strulovitch) own 72 acres of Mrs. Mangin’s land along with Irving Bauer.

Mendel Schwimmer and Solomon Schwimmer own about 10 acres that belonged to Mrs. Mangin.

Mendel would later transfer these 10 acres to Solomon.

After the sale, the parties had multiple disagreements about how to manage the land. Those disagreements continued on and off until August of 2022.

That’s when Judge Maria S. Vazquez-Doles ruled that the rabbinical court Mr. Mendel Schwimmer wanted to have handle the dispute could finally intervene.

(It should be noted, Mrs. Vazquez-Doles is the late Harley Doles’s wife, and given Harley Doles’s deep involvement with dissidents such as Brach and Schwimmer, she probably should have recused herself from the case. But I digress …)

If some of these names sound familiar to you, they should.

Mendel Schwimmer was one of the plaintiffs in …

Zalman Berkovitz, Solomon Witriol, Mendel Schwimmer, Bernie Jacobowitz, Joseph Strulovitch, Jacob Gold, Moses Greenfield, and Sam Wiesner v. Village of South Blooming Grove.

Like Brach, Berkovitz, and Gold, Schwimmer and Strulovitch went on to invest in Keen Equities using Mangin LLC to disguise their identity.

What’s Happened With Mangin LLC Since Then?

Mangin LLC’s property is located adjacent to Orange County owned Gonzaga Park. As previously reported by The Monroe Gazette, the lawsuit between Orange County and the Village of South Blooming Grove is still ongoing.

Basically, Joel Stern, acting as de facto mayor of South Blooming Grove, began clear cutting property owned by Orange County, accessing it using Mangin LLC’s property. Orange County sued, and allegedly, all work has stopped on County owned land.

Got all that?

The guy running the Village, who works for Keen Equities, used Keen Equities’s land to access a park owned by Orange County, and then started cutting down that park to make a road nobody authorized.

Well, nobody except hanhallah.

So.

Mangin LLC did its best to hide the identity of its owners. If not for the first court case I told you about today, we would have had to follow the mailing addresses, starting with 453 Broadway Ste 102, Brooklyn NY 11211.

That address would have taken us to Third Bath Realty LLC, which would have taken us to Tasma Realty Corp, which then would also take us to Webster Avenue Management.

Then, we would have hit a dead end with PO BOX 827 in the Bronx, 10457.

Irving Bauer has (or had) his businesses based in the Bronx. He has to be up there in age at this point.

But you wouldn’t know that unless you go back into the archives of the Times-Herald Record and found that tidbit about the Bronx location buried in a much larger story.

The Children of Mangin

Since the 2007 creation of Mangin LLC, there are now multiple companies using Mangin in its name operating in South Blooming Grove.

For example, 3 San Marcos LLC is registered to a home on 19 Mangin Road. That home itself is registered to Mangin Rd LLC.

Mangin Rd LLC is listed as operating out of 19 Mangin Road.

19 Mangin Road, 21 Mangin Road, and 23 Mangin Road were brought before the Village of South Blooming Grove Planning Board on Thursday, July 20th, 2023. The application for those homes was brought before the board by Gedalya & Yoel Feldman.

13 Mangin LLC lists 670 Myrtle Ave Ste 159 Brooklyn NY 11205 as its mailing address.

21 Mangin Road is listed as being owned by Gps 64 LLC. This LLC however, also uses 19 Mangin Road as its main mailing address.

So, same owner, different corporate name.

Gedalya Feldman also owns 295 Mountain Lodge Road, 7 Merriwold Lane North, and in the Village of Monroe, 315 Spring Street.

Yoel Feldman owns 2 San Marcos along with Toby Feldman.

Mr. Toby Feldman has multiple businesses listed as being based at 19 Mangin Road.

19 Mangin Road seems to be super popular these days.

Those businesses include Manfield Team LLC, Manfield Developers LLC, and Rieger Distribution Corp,

10 Mangin Road is listed as owned by Mangin Equities LLC, 1449 37th St Ste 420, Brooklyn NY 11219.

And Mangin Equities LLC brings us back to Keen Equities and Zigmond Brach.

Wait. 1449 37th Street. Didn’t You Write About That Building Already?

I sure did.

That’s the address connected to US Asia Global Inc., whom you’ll recall, is trying to buy or otherwise occupy (via a short term rental) land surrounding the proposed Henry Farms development in Monroe and Chester.

US Asia Global Inc. / David Breier used Suite 612.

10 Mangin, owned by Mangin Equities LLC, used suite 420. Same building. Different suite number.

Whether or not US Asia Global Inc. is connected to Keen Equities remains to be seen. That’s an investigation for another time.

More importantly, for today at least, according to documentation filed with the Village of South Blooming Grove, Simon Gelb (of Keen Equities fame) is also involved with Mangin Equities LLC.

Mr. Gelb connects us back to Zigmond Brach, majority owner of Keen Equities.

So, yeah, Mangin LLC is connected to Mangin Equities LLC, and both are connected to Keen Equities LLC.

Oh, and Gelb owns some land too in the area under the name of Clove Land LLC. I guess he didn’t want to be left out of the real estate fun in South Blooming Grove.

Clove Land LLC uses the address of 28 Museum Village Road in Monroe. 28 is owned by Creative GC LLC, which uses the address of 5308 13th Ave Ste 5, Brooklyn NY 11219. A building owned by Robust Clean Inc.

The Road to Clovewood

Route 208 is the main drag for the Village of South Blooming Grove.

505 Clove Road, off of 208, is the official address for the Clovewood Development project.

585 Clove Road is less than a mile from Clovewood and also off 208, connects to that larger property.

585 Clove LLC uses the 19 Mangin Road home as its main address, belonging to Mr. Toby Feldman.

So here is our connection between the Mangin-named LLCs.

But that’s not all.

583 Clove Rd LLC is owned by Rachel Wiesner.

583 Clove Rd LLC has an address of 1415 59th St Brooklyn NY 11219 listed.

This building is owned by Samuel Wiesner. And why yes, that is the same Wiesner from the court case involving Brach, Gold, Schwimmer, and friends.

As it turns out, Weisner is Zigmond Brach’s son-in-law. And as I pointed out recently, Weisner and Brach were behind BMG Monroe 1 LLC, which was doing all the same stuff Keen Equities was with the clear cutting.

Mrs. Rachel Wisener is, or at least was, also an employee of Pyle USA Electronics aka Pyle Audio Inc.. And Pyle Audio is owned by … Yup. Zigmond Brach.

It goes on like this.

Moche Halpern owns 9 Dallas Drive. 564 Clove Road is less than a mile from 585 Clove Road. He also owns 443 Clove Road and 279 Mountain Lodge Road in Blooming Grove.

447 Clove Road is owned by 279 Mountain Lodge Road LLC, which uses Moche’s 9 Dallas Drive address.

In South Blooming Grove, he also owns 7 and 8 Kingsville Drive, and 61 E. Main Street.

I haven’t broken down every residence on Clove Road. That’s an upcoming post, but there are a bunch of LLCs along the corridor near Clovewood.

All of these things are connected. It’s not your imagination. That’s why I wrote this post.

There really are a small group of people, many involved with Keen Equities, but some independent actors such as the Feldmans, and Moche Halpern, who are going to make millions of dollars off real estate transactions in South Blooming Grove.

And they’re going to ignore the water situation because of this financial incentive.

You know what that is in New York State?

New York Penal Code § 15.05(3) defines acting recklessly as being aware of a risk that an action may cause another person a serious injury and consciously ignoring that risk.

I’ll have more on whether or not we can charge the developers and other real estate interests with reckless endangerment soon.