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This is Fernando Arce, a citizen journalist with LFA TV, narrating from a building in New York City. The structure behind me is a five to six story, multiuse commercial space with rental units and residential lofts. The significance of this building goes back roughly thirty to thirty-five years, to the early 1990s, when I ran Taxi Magazine, a publication for the trade industry of the yellow taxi sector. This very office space—on the upper floors—was where my company operated, and we rented this space here in the back.
The key point I want to share is about the landlord: he was none other than Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother. This is my personal “six degrees of separation” moment, amplified by the presence of the police passing by as I speak. Mark Epstein owned this building, and at that time he had an apartment on the top floor. He was a young man back then, in the early 1990s, and he kept a Triumph motorcycle, which he used to park right in front of the building. The freight elevator is the one that travels up to each floor, serving the offices and lofts.
During that period, I didn’t interact with him extensively; we were more colleagues in the publishing venture—the publisher and I, with me acting as the advertising agent. He was quiet, kept to himself, and I recall that he would bring up beautiful women to that top-level apartment. I heard him hosting intimate gatherings with those women, who were models, numerous and striking.
Fast forward about three and a half decades, and I don’t know if Mark Epstein still owns this particular building. He is known to own a substantial amount of real estate in New York City, and he engages in interviews, though he often presents with his face covered, not showing his features publicly anymore. You can google him to see images, but in this story I’m recounting the direct connection: Mark Epstein as the landlord of the very space where Taxi Magazine once thrived.
So, to sum up, this is the six degrees of separation with Hernando Arce: I worked in the publishing business for the yellow taxi industry, and this was our headquarters in a beautiful loft space in a fashionable, boutique area of Manhattan, specifically Soho and Tribeca. It’s an interesting story I thought I’d share in full: Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, was my landlord at that time.
Fernando Orsi here, citizen journalist for Yugatti Country.