Jordan Metzger

Jordan Metzger of East Hampton died of complications of a stroke on Sunday at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook. He was 89 and had been living there for five and a half years.

Mr. Metzger was a lawyer in Manhattan with his own firm before he became the president of Tishman Holdings Corporation. When he retired 18 years ago, he and his wife moved to East Hampton year round.

He was born in Brooklyn on July 29, 1929, to Miles Metzger and the former Matty Remez. The family moved to Laurelton in Queens and then to Woodmere in Nassau County. He graduated from Woodmere High School before attending Tulane University in New Orleans. He decided to switch to New York University, from which he graduated, going on to earn a degree at N.Y.U.’s School of Law.

Mr. Metzger served in the Army during the Korean War. After his first wife died he married Susan Osler Brockman of New York City and East Hampton in 1981. The couple lived in Katonah, in Westchester County, before moving here.

In addition to his family, he loved books and politics, said Ms. Metzger, who survives him. Her daughters, Dana Brockman of Los Angeles and Abigail Brockman of Westchester, to whom he was close, also survive, as do his children from his first marriage, Michelle Metzger of Jackson Hole, Wyo., and David Metzger of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and three grandchildren. 

A brother, Sam Metzger of New York City, and a sister, Robin Cramer of Stony Brook, also survive.

Mr. Metzger was cremated. There will be a memorial gathering at a future date.