The 10 Worst Brooklynites of All Time
Little Lena Mindy Rosenthal was born in Marbletown, New York, but grew up in Brooklyn, eventually dropping out of Lincoln to seek her fortune in the big city. And, well, she found it. After getting her start selling condo shares out of a Park Avenue lobby, The Queen of Mean very rapidly ascended the real estate ladder, marrying rich and starting a hotel empire with her husband Harry. From that point on, she did all the nice things some rich people feel they have to do to stay rich: insult underlings, dispute every invoice that comes your way, befriend the wives of famous dictators (hi Imelda!), sue your dead son’s widow for money he “borrowed” and evict her, fire your employees for being gay and, most famously, do everything you can to defraud the government! For this last misstep Helmsley served 18 months in prisons, far too short a term…