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Hauspurg’s dad, Arthur, headed Consolidated Edison from 1970 to 1990. Two gifts that his late father received on the job were this vintage photograph of light bulb inventor Thomas Edison and this sculpture of a sword in a stone, a reference to the legend of King Arthur. For the elder Hauspurg, the artwork represented the challenges that he often faced in running Con Ed.
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eter Hauspurg has brokered a slew of impressive sales as chairman and CEO of Eastern Consolidated , the real estate investment powerhouse he founded three decades ago when he was only 30. And me-
Hauspurg bought this piece of the Berlin Wall in the 1990s on a trip to Berlin — “probably from some curio shop.” Only recently did Hauspurg discover a date on the bit of concrete: Sept. 11, 1989, the day that the wall fell.
mentos of those many creatively executed deals — mixed in with family photos and even a piece of the Berlin Wall — adorn his corner offi ce at the company’s 355 Lexington Avenue headquarters. B Y G UELDA V OIEN
This photo is of Prince, a Hackney/ Thoroughbred cross the Hauspurg family used to own. Unfortunately, Prince couldn’t take the hilly trails and steep ravines of the upstate reservation where the Hauspurgs run their horses, so they found him a new home, a charity that provides riding lessons to underprivileged kids. Now, Hauspurg has a “big quarter horse named Sky. The rocky terrain doesn’t bother him.”
Hauspurg received these plaques from the Real Estate Board of New York for helping determine Most Ingenious Deal award winners. “In a difficult city with difficult people,” he said, the contest is “really fun to judge.”
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Hauspurg and wife, Daun Paris, Eastern’s co-founder and president, collect antique staircase models such as this one, which Hauspurg said he loves for its “graceful, sweeping beauty.” A half-dozen others are in the couple’s Bedford, N.Y., home, where they stay on the weekends. During the week, they live on the Upper West Side.
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“When I need a genie, I will give it a little rub,” he said of this antique lamp he bought years ago in France.
Like many brokers, Hauspurg is admittedly superstitious. When he’s not sure which approach to take, he turns to this pair of dice. If double sixes come up, for instance, “I’ll take a strong position.” Hauspurg received this Buddha statue, imported from Thailand, as a good-bye gift from a departing Eastern employee. The reclining pose reflects the “final passage into Nirvana,” Hauspurg said. “If you have contentious people in here, it tends to calm them down.”
Hauspurg loves photography, such as this print of director Alfred Hitchcock holding a dead duck, and an Annie Leibovitz photo of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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