E. William Judson

About E. William Judson

The Judson Realty management team is headed by E. William Judson.

After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1953, Mr. Judson worked on Wall Street as a securities analyst. In 1958 he joined the agricultural and real estate management firm of Oppenheimer Industries Inc. Seeing a need for a higher level of professionalism in investment and in management of prime commercial property in New York City, he chose this as his area of expertise. His assessment proved accurate, and he was soon placed in charge of Oppenheimer’s eastern real estate operations. Acquiring the division from Oppenheimer in 1972, he reformed it as Judson Realty and chose to focus on high-end properties on the Upper East Side. In the process, he developed and served as managing general partner of the American Stanhope Hotel. He later acquired the Hyde Park Hotel and developed it into the Mark Hotel.

In 1996, he founded the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District, extending from 57th Street to 86th Street and comprised of roughly 250 buildings, 500 cooperative and condominium units and over 800 businesses. He continues to serve as its chairman.

Mr. Judson enjoys an excellent reputation for the execution of improvement and development plans, the delivery of high returns and growth commensurate with tolerable risk limits, and the professional management of assets entrusted to the company by clients.

The Art World:
Judson Art Warehouse – Perceiving an unmet need for the storage of fine art and antiquities, E. William Judson purchased a dormant paint factory in Long Island City, and, converted it into the first fully climate-controlled, secure art storage facility in New York City. With 200,000 square feet of storage space, the facility numbered among its customers nearly every major New York museum and art gallery and a majority of the New York art world’s most prominent living artists and collectors.