Peter Cooper

So far as I have been able to learn our locomotive was the first one built in the United States unless we except that of Peter Cooper, which is said never to have given satisfaction.

A Pioneer Railway of the West Maude Ward Lafferty 1915

You may not know the name "Peter Cooper," but I bet you've heard of what his invention later became known as.

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In 2010, the giant California pension fund wrote off a $500 million equity stake in Manhattan's sprawling Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper apartment complex.

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On the Peter Cooper loan, the lender projected revenue from planned rent increases, which never happened.

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Mr. Kandarian is credited with helping enhance the company's risk-management efforts and diversifying its investment portfolio, in part through the $5.4 billion sale of Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town, a residential development in New York City, in 2006 when the property market was still strong.

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Getty Images Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complexes in New York That return last year beat the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, which fell 1.3% through September.

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So far, there are few examples of such underwriting in a market where 2011 volume has reached just $14 billion and the cases are mild compared with practices that sank high-profile deals such as the $5.4 billion sale of the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complexes in New York City in 2006, said investors.

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"We think that they're presenting an opportunity for somebody of ill will to hide and potentially perform a criminal act," said Council Member Daniel Garodnick , a resident of Peter Cooper Village who sent multiple letters to Tishman Speyer about the issue at the time.

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Calpers's sourced investments included those made in such high-profile deals as the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complex in Manhattan, and a venture called LandSource, which held thousands of acres of California land.

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Tishman spent much of the downturn coping with multibillion-dollar boom-era deals that went awry, such as the acquisitions of multifamily company Archstone-Smith Trust and Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complex.

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