Obituary: Andrea Bunis, Head of Namesake NYC Management Company

The nearly three-decade-old Andrea Bunis Management has won such accolades as the Habitat Management Achievement Awards for, variously, Management Excellence, General Effectiveness, Finances and Crisis Management, as well as the ABO Special Award for Excellence in Management, and was named to The Cooperator's list of the city's top management companies.

Andrea Bunis was born March 5, 1957, at the now-gone Central Maternity Hospital on the Grand Concourse in The Bronx, and graduated from the borough's recently closed Christopher Columbus High School in 1975. She went to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the City University of New York's Lehman College and later attended New York University's Schack Institute of Real Estate Certificate Program, where, as a State-licensed real estate broker, she would return to teach as a senior staff instructor.

Prior to founding Andrea Bunis Management in 1985, Bunis was a senior real estate account executive with the real estate management firm the Kriesel Company (now part of Insignia Residential Group). She was a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, Professional Women in Construction and the Association of Real Estate Women.

In her personal life, Bunis was a varsity athlete in volleyball and swimming and was the Shorehaven Beach Club woman's paddle ball champion for four consecutive years. She received the PSAL's Louisa Wingate Underhill Award for outstanding female athlete and was a New York Giants and Knicks fan. She enjoyed skiing and boating.

A Manhattan resident for the last three decades, she was predeceased by her brother Stephen. Her survivors include her parents, Joan and George; nephews Kris, Matt and Henry; niece Priya; and her companion of 42 years, Harvey Rudman, a CPA and her firm's chief financial officer.

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