A senior vice president at Corcoran, Browne is one of the most successful—and flamboyant—real estate brokers in the city.

Kentucky-born Browne has a sterling pedigree: He graduated from Phillips Academy, Princeton (class of '71), and Harvard Business School. After holding several jobs in academia co-founded a company, Browne-Ladd Tours, that organized student trips to Europe. By the early '90s, he'd switched to real estate and taken a job at Douglas Elliman, quickly zeroing in on the city's expanding luxury market. In 2002, he jumped to rival brokerage Corcoran. He's now one of the firm's top producers, consistently selling upwards of $200 million in properties annually.

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