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Toshi's Living Room And PenthouseToshi's Living Room And Penthouse

1141 Broadway
New York, NY 10001
(212) 679-8002

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Robert “Toshi” Chan is a real estate mogul, party promoter, actor and majority owner of New York City’s newest premier hotel, Flatiron Hotel.

Born and raised in San Francisco, the self-described “book geek” enrolled at Columbia University before deciding to take a mixology class on the side, a move that changed his life. He started bartending, throwing epic parties and eventually rebranded himself as Toshi, a nickname/alter ego he gave himself - the same name of the most popular person in his high school class.

Toshi still had a corporate side and was accepted into the Management Training Program at Citicorp during his senior year. After a five-year career with the company as the #1 most profitable trader on the government securities desk, he left Wall Street and used his bonus money as a down payment on his first piece of property – a penthouse apartment in an old converted Yeshiva on the Lower East Side – thus igniting his passion for real estate. To make ends meet, he continued throwing “Toshi Parties,” graduating from the penthouse apartment to lofts and eventually to NYC’s iconic Puck Building, where he lived for 10 years. During this time he began to take a shot at professional acting. Toshi went on to star in various television shows and is best known for his role as a triad boss opposite Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2006 Academy Award-winning movie, The Departed.

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