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Jerry Spiegel, LI developer and philanthropist, dies at 84

As a teenage fledgling developer after World War II, Jerry Spiegel worried about being taken seriously.

"When he started his career in real estate, he was building houses in Hicksville for returning vets when Levitt was building houses in Levittown," Spiegel's son-in-law, Arthur Sanders recalled of the Kings Point resident who died Tuesday at age 84 at North Shore University Hospital after...

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