Editing Webb and Knapp

{{Infobox company
| name = Webb and Knapp
| industry = [[Real estate development]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1922}}
| founder = Robert C. Knapp <br> [[W. Seward Webb]]
| defunct = after 1965
}}

'''Webb and Knapp''' was a [[real estate development]] firm.

The company is most famous for developing the [[Roosevelt Airfield]], which was the launching site of the [[transatlantic flight]]s of [[Charles Lindbergh]] and [[Amelia Earhart]]. It was also the firm at which famed architect [[I. M. Pei]] first worked from 1948 to 1956.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==History==
The company was founded in 1922 by Robert C. Knapp and [[W. Seward Webb]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

[[William Zeckendorf]] joined the firm in 1938 and acquired it in 1949.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,934084-1,00.html | title=Mr. Knickerbocker's Face Lifting | publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=October 14, 1946}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

In the 1960s, the company filed for [[bankruptcy]] protection and Roosevelt Airfield was sold to [[Corporate Property Investors]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/05/archives/long-island-weekly-roosevelt-field-a-shopping-giant-at-a-crossroads.html | title=Roosevelt Field: A Shopping Giant at a Crossroads | first=ISADORE | last=BARMASH | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=June 5, 1977}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/13/archives/liquidation-asked-for-webb-knapp-deficiency-found-at-webb-knapp.html | title=Liquidation Asked For Webb & Knapp | first=ROBERT E. | last=BEDINGFIELD | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=February 13, 1970}}</ref> The company at that time had total assets of about $21,500,00 and total liabilities of about $60 million, plus contingent tax liabilities of $29,400,000.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Supreme Court|first=United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EuBgDPkzJpAC&q=webb+and+knapp+bankrupt&pg=PA420|title=United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court|publisher=Banks & Bros., Law Publishers|year=1971|pages=419}}</ref>

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