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- 1 2 The Real Deal: "Laboz family’s firm buys disputed Brooklyn dorm for $10.7M: source - Beaux-Arts building with 23 units set for conversion to luxury rentals" By Adam Pincus September 19, 2011
- ↑ The Jewish Voice: "Sephora to Makeover Downtown Brooklyn" 5 July 2013
- 1 2 3 4 5 Make It In Brooklyn Magazine: "Albert Laboz" Archived 2017-04-13 at the Wayback Machine retrieved April 13, 2017
- ↑ United American Land website retrieved April 13, 2017
- ↑ The Real Deal: "Laboz to develop retail for Brooklyn Municipal Building" August 15, 2011
- 1 2 The Real Deal: "Families plot Fulton Mall face-lift - A parcel-by-parcel look at what the corridor's tight-knit group of owners has in store" By Patrick Egan January 31, 2011
- ↑ The Real Deal: "Merged Filene’s/Syms coming to Fulton Mall" October 12, 2010
- ↑ The Real Deal: "Harrison Street buys LIU student housing for $61M By Zachary Kussin] March 28, 2013
- ↑ Brooklyn Paper: "H&M coming to Fulton Mall" By Sarah Portlock June 14, 2008
- ↑ Village Voice: "On the Outs in Brooklyn" by Neil deMause May 22, 2007
- 1 2 Commercial Observer: "Albert Laboz, United American Land" October 8, 2013
- ↑ Orthodox union Lay Leadership retrieved April 12, 2017
- ↑ Jewish Voice New York: "The Special Children's Center Annual Breakfast Fundraiser at the Laboz Home in Deal, NJ" July 13, 2016