{"id":80,"date":"2023-11-15T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-12-20T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:02:13","slug":"sylvia-cowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/sylvia-cowan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Cowan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What’s the word for a straight couple where the woman seems deeply cool and the man does not? If that term had been around in the 1990s, it might have been applied to Sylvia Cowan and Eric Adams, who dated for an unspecified period of time while Adams was a cop and Cowan was, notably and impressively, a champion<\/a> competitive<\/a> bodybuilder<\/a>. (“In a world that can be unreliable, I always rely on moving steel and sculpting flesh,” she once said. Put that on a mug and sell it on Etsy!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cowan, who today is a VP for customer care at a health insurance company<\/a>, would be just a footnote in Adams’s biography but for the fact that in 1988, Cowan and Adams purchased a one-bedroom co-op apartment in Crown Heights at 425 Prospect Place\u2014an apartment that came up repeatedly during Adams’s mayoral run, when questions about where exactly he lived and his rather murky real estate holdings dogged his campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first problem? While running in 2005 and after becoming a state senator in 2006, Adams did not include<\/a> in required disclosures that he co-owned that apartment with Cowan. When pressed by reporters during his 2021 campaign <\/strong>on this omission, Adams replied that he had given away his ownership of the apartment to Cowan in 2007, providing as evidence<\/a> a photocopy of a short, unnotarized letter from that year which stated he was turning over his shares to Cowan “without asking for any payment for my portion of the shares.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cowan appeared to back up that assertion, releasing a statement through his campaign that she has “fully owned 425 Prospect Place, Apartment 1K since 2007, when Eric signed his half over to me.” She added, “Eric and I remain good friends.” But somewhat perplexingly, in a 2018 campaign filing for his 2021 run for mayor, Eric Adams listed his residential address<\/a> as 425 Prospect Place, despite his campaign stating<\/a> that he had lived in the Bed-Stuy townhome he’s owned since 2003 <\/strong>for almost a decade. That<\/em> statement was seemingly at odds with another statement made by his campaign, which told the CITY<\/a> that actually, Adams had lived at 425 Prospect Place apartment until 2013, before moving to the Crown Heights apartment of his good friend <\/a>Lisa White<\/a>, where he lived before moving to his Bed-Stuy townhome in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But back to 425 Prospect Place\u2014Cowan’s “good friend” then turned around and placed all of the blame for this confusion over who owned the apartment on Cowan. \u201cI followed all of the rules I was supposed to follow,\u201d Adams said<\/a>. \u201cI turned [my shares] over to her. It\u2019s her responsibility and obligation to notify the board. I signed a contract. I no longer wanted to have ownership in it. I signed a contract and turned it over. Now if she neglected to tell them that\u2019s one thing. But I did what I was supposed to do.\u201d He added, \u201cI\u2019m proud of my transparency and so I turned over the information to her and if she was slow in doing something, that\u2019s another thing. But I turned over everything to her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What he didn’t acknowledge was that it appears that in 2017, he blocked the sale of that Crown Heights apartment<\/a>. According to the CITY, that year, Cowan had attempted to sell the apartment<\/a>, and a real estate agent Cowan worked with told the outlet that at the time, she said that Adams “wasn’t fully supportive of her selling the apartment.” (He also recommended<\/a> that she buy a condo in Fort Lee, which is where he and his current girlfriend Tracey Collins<\/a> had bought a place in 2016. In 2017, Cowan took his advice, buying a unit\u2026in the same building as Adams and Collins.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n