We wrote a few days ago about the Israeli billionaire who recently purchased the historic NYT building which gave the famous square its name. Well today NY Mag’s Intelligencer did a little rundown on our compatriot’s doings in the world.

Meet the Mogul
The Putin pal who just bought the old New York Times Building.
By Ben Smith

Lev Leviev’s $525 million purchase last week of the Times Building on West 43rd Street represents a coming-out party for the Soviet-born, Israel-based Lubavitcher diamond merchant. He now owns huge swaths of Brooklyn and a growing number of Manhattan trophies—and he’s just getting started. “We are going to expand dramatically in the next year,” says Rotem Rosen, the chief of the American branch of Leviev’s holding company, Africa-Israel. Here’s everything you need to know about the new billionaire (worth $2.6 billion, says Forbes) on the block…

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