“But then my father put pressure on me to dump school and come work for him.
“I’d use the payphone and call a broker at JPMorgan,” he says. The next year, he attended the University of Rhode Island, but he spent most of his time trading commodities like sugar, then gold and eventually grains. “I can still park cars in very tight spaces, so if I had to fall back on anything, I could become a car attendant again.” “I didn’t know how to drive stick and the thing went out of control, but I managed to stop it without crashing,” he recalls. Soloviev started off modestly in the family business, parking cars at his father’s crown jewel on West 57th Street, the distinctive sloping office building overlooking Central Park. Soloviev grew up a few blocks away from the proposed site of Freedom Plaza, and by the time he was a senior in high school in 1992 he was working for his father, who founded and ran the Solow Building Co.
Game On: The local community board isn't exactly thrilled by Soliviev's plans for a Ferris wheel and soccer field near the casino.
