David Cenaffra

Licensed Real Estate Broker — HYFTO, a licensed real estate broker in New York City, specializing in private NYC residential sales.

@realtyrocker — Specializing in condos, townhouses, and branding unique properties, whether first time on the market or needing a rebrand. David Cenaffra is a mission-driven creative real estate agent with over a decade of experience in various sectors of the industry. His cutting-edge strategies make him a standout. As a pioneer of social media in real estate, it's documented David started the first ever brokerage to have in-house creative before others laid claim to it. Since, HYFTO has successfully executed projects in real estate, luxury hospitality, lifestyle, health, wellness, and more. 'Service is the supreme commitment of life.' - Will H. Hays "My deeply-rooted history in the New York area and real estate begins before our country was founded. My direct family lineage is Davenport, as in Thomas “The Pioneer” Davenport, pioneer of Philipstown, NY, and the Village of Cold Spring. Constitution Island at its southern tip was the Eastern anchor point for George Washington and West Point in the strategic "Great Chain" defense of the Hudson River. Cold Spring is also home to the first public water pipes for New York, the first passenger train, and the birth/resting place of another relative of mine - Emily Warren Roebling, chief engineer who completed the construction of The Brooklyn Bridge. On the other side of my family, my great-great-grandfather was an orchestra leader, co-founder of BVD Underwear, and a Broadway show financier. His daughter, a theater company treasurer, married my great-grandfather. He was an authority in the theater world as a builder/owner/operator and a prime mover of neighborhood movie theaters; an executive for over 50 years in the movie, music, and live entertainment business. Active in film, vaudeville, live theater, music, and television, my great-grandfather started his career at 16 working directly for theater impresario F.F. Proctor in Manhattan. Holding various posts with Proctor, RKO, and his own theater holdings, he and his associates also assembled the largest theater portfolio in the world with The Stanley Company of America -- part of the big Warner Bros. Pictures’ expansion through the Sound Era and Golden Age of Hollywood. The theaters of the day were luxury palaces, like The Beacon Theatre, Brooklyn Paramount, Radio City, the Palace Theater in Albany, NY, Proctor's Theater (first public display of television as well as where Mariah Carey filmed her 1993 NBC Thanksgiving Special turned longest-charting video concert), and The Stanley Theater in Jersey City. The Stanley was the largest theater on the East Coast after Radio City, and to this day, hangs a chandelier from the original Waldorf-Astoria after demolished to make way for the development of the Empire State Building. During the 1920s, Warner Bros. revolutionized the movie, music, and live entertainment industries when they acquired and pioneered sound to film with the Vitaphone technology in New York. Located first on the roof of 140 Nassau Street in Manhattan, and later opening the first modern film studio in the United States in Midwood, Brooklyn, Vitaphone was developed as the last major analog sound-on-disc system. Importantly, it was the only one that was widely used and commercially successful in a world that denied this technology advancement due to cost. Vitaphone shorts created in New York and shown prior to feature films would launch the sound revolution in Hollywood and early “pop music stars” with short-form video content. I like to call it the first TikTok. ‘The Jazz Singer’ was Warner Bros.’ first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech. The cash from its success, as well as ‘The Singing Fool’, helped it complete a major merger that combined the assets of Warner, including Vitaphone, and Stanley. This real estate was integral to the production and exhibition of projects. In addition to the portfolio of theaters, Stanley also controlled the major fi…

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