Dan Gorgoglione Danielli

About Dan

When a broker's achievements exceed his seller's expectations, the word spreads quickly: Dan Danielli has blazed an impressive trail through Manhattan's luxury homes market. Having closed nearly a half-billion dollars worth of residential sales during his career, Mr. Danielli came to Douglas Elliman after having been a top-producing broker at 5 premiere Manhattan real estate firms, including Halstead Property where he made their quarterly "Top Five Brokers" list 8 times - including 4 times in the No. 1 spot, and received their Big Apple Award for outstanding sales achievement. Shortly after joining Halstead Property, he sold a Park Avenue Townhouse, a $10,500,000 Greenwich Village loft, and was appointed to Halstead's Platinum Circle and Producers Council. In 2008, he won the Deal of the Year award from the Real Estate Board of New York.

Over the course of his 30+ year career, Dan has sold numerous townhouses, particularly on the East Side and Downtown, including Greenwich Village's "Abingdon Guest House" Hotel, and brokered numerous 7-figure deals for such premier condominiums as Olympic Tower, Ariel, Park lmperial, Promenade, Park Millennium, Tafalgar House, Century, Park Laurel, Oxford, Mondrian, Alfred, One Lincoln Square, Two Columbus, lmpala, Kingsley and Saratoga; co-ops ?? Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Central Park West, Riverside Drive, Financial District, and Carnegie Hill. His recent sales cover Manhattan's most prestigious residences, including Hotel des Artistes, Grand Millennium, Trump Parc, Metropolitan Tower, Gotham, Park Laurel, Belaire, Copley, Trafalgar House, Trump Place, Ansonia, Morad Beekman, Alwyn Court, Excelsior, Sofia, Evans Tower, Riverside Tower, Colonnade, and Allegro.

Many celebrities - particularly from the Classical Music world - have sold (or purchased) properties through Mr. Danielli, including tenor Placido Domingo, concert pianists Evgeny Kissin, Yuja Wang, and Alicia de Larrocha, violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Cho Liang Lin and Kyung-Wha Chung, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, guitarist Sharon lsbin, and pop-star Roger Waters (Pink Floyd). Other notable clients include film actress Tuesday Weld, ABC News analyst George Stephanopoulos, artist Peter Max, Microsoft (Japan) President Kazuhiko Nishi, Barnes & Nobel President Michael Berry, AQR Capital Management hedge-fund king Clifford Asness, and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb.

Numerous articles on Mr. Danielli's sales achievements have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, Inman News, New York Newsday, and Daily News. He has also been featured ?? "Le Point" - a Canadian television program showcasing Mr. Danielli's Central Park South properties. In 2003, when New York State's Supreme Court of Appeals protected a co-op board's right to evict a shareholder without judicial review, Mr. Danielli was appointed exclusive broker to sell what thus became 2003's most famous Manhattan real-estate listing.

An accomplished pianist who performed internationally broadcasted concerts with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Dan Danielli holds degrees and diplomas in marketing and music from Boston University, New York University, a Ph.D. from Manhattan School of Music, and diplomas from Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy) and Institute Francais (Villefranche, France). Prior to real estate, he was a high-profile executive at CBS Records and RCA-BMG Music, where he guided the recording careers of such artists as Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Isaac Stern, Sir Colin Davis, James Galway, Yo-Yo Ma, Murray Perahia, Evgeny Kissin, Alicia de Larrocha, Jessye Norman, Marilyn Horne, Cleo Laine, The Chieftains, Judy Collins, and such orchestras as St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow Virtuosi, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, and London Symphony. He also served as music consultant for the Barbra Streisand film "Prince of Tides". He has been an Artistic Advisor for the annual lnternational Keyboard lnstitute at Mannes College and is a benefactor/volunteer for various food-pantries and homeless youth shelters in Manhattan. He continues to give piano performances for charitable events and pursues his passion for independent & foreign films, European travel, and his studies of the French language.