On Thursday, mourners gathered to remember Elias Karmon, a longtime Bronx resident, businessman and philanthropist nicknamed “Mr. Bronx.” NY1’s Borough reporter Dean Meminger filed the following report.A who’s who of Bronx leaders gathered in Highbridge Thursday to say goodbye to a friend, an advocate and a philanthropist.
Known as “Mr. Bronx,” 98-year-old Elias Karmon is remembered as a real Bronx treasure.
“He was everything, he was smart and witty, very capable and energetic. He was just a wonderful human being,” said Beatrice Castiglia-Catullo of RAIN Inc. Senior Services. “They called him Mr. Bronx and that is exactly what he was.”
“He was very funny, he always had a twinkle in his eye, he was very full of life. he was grandpa Eli,” said Simon Landsberg, Karmon’s great-grandson.
Karmon was born in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1910 but from the 1930s on he worked and lived in the Bronx. He owned successful clothing and real estate businesses.
But he was known as “Mr. Bronx” because he donated money and plenty of time to dozens of community, health and education organizations in the borough for the last 70 years. Read more..
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