caption children nationality ethnicity birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
peter 2007 s. kalikow at the concorso d'eleganza villa d'este 2 : nicholas alexander kalikow kathryn harold kalikow united states jewish 01 december 1942 mary kalikow peter 2007.jpg s. kalikow at the concorso d'eleganza villa d'este peter s. kalikow
 peter s. kalikow real estate development ; public service
peter s. kalikow

peter s. kalikow -lrb- born december 1 , 1942 -rrb- is president of h. j. kalikow & company , llc , one of new york city 's leading real estate firms .
he is the former chairman of the metropolitan transportation authority -lrb- mta -rrb- , former commissioner of the port authority of new york and new jersey and past owner and publisher of the new york post < / > which he bought from rupert murdoch in 1988 for $ 37.6 million and lost to bankruptcy in 1993 .
his net worth in 2013 was reported at nearly $ 500 million .
others in 2013 reported his fortune to be $ 1 billion .
