How a self-made salesperson took $1,000 and took on the titans of New York’s legendary real-estate industry.
If Woody Allen ever starts making movies in the Big Apple again, Barbara Cocoran’s New York entrepreneurial story would make a great screenplay — girl meets boy, boy gives her $1,000 to start a real-estate firm, boy cheats on girl, girl builds multimillion-dollar business as revenge.
Since selling The Corcoran Group in 2001 for a reported $70 million, Corcoran has become the feisty face of residential real estate in the Big Apple and beyond — she has penned four books, serves as a real-estate contributor on NBC’s Today and helps snare rising entrepreneurial stars as a judge on ABC’s Shark Tank.
