Biography

He emigrated from Israel to New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 in 1969 and worked in asbestos abatement

Asbestos abatement

Many buildings contain asbestos, which was used in spray-applied flame retardant, thermal system insulation, and in a variety of other materials. Asbestos was sometimes "flocked" above false ceilings, inside technical ducts, and in many other small spaces where firefighters would have difficulty...

. He was involved in small development projects, then in 2001 he became business partners with Lev Leviev

Lev Leviev

Lev Avnerovich Leviev is a Bukharian-Israeli billionaire businessman, with a net worth of roughly $1.5 billion following the 2008 global financial crisis. Leviev is one of the most prominent Mizrahi Jewish individuals in the world and has been a major philanthropist for Jewish causes in Eastern...

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Early in 2010, Boymelgreen became the target of a media campaign by owners of his first large project, Newswalk, in Brooklyn, NY, completed in 2002. In 2007, the owners had filed a $10 million lawsuit against Boymelgreen and related parties for a wide variety of construction defects. In 2010, they developed a website called ShameOnShaya.org, in English, Hebrew and Russian, which received media attention in the US and Israel. As a result of the media campaign, New York Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

 was forced to return an $8000 contribution to Boymelgreen. Cuomo received the contribution at the same time the New York State Attorney General’s office failed to respond to Newswalk’s requests for help against the developer. Companies controlled by Boymelgreen are involved in the construction of Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement

An Israeli settlement is a Jewish civilian community built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and is considered occupied territory by the international community. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank...

s in the Judea and Samaria Area