Stanley Shaftel

Stanley Shaftel was an American architect, real estate developer, professor, and veteran of the United States Navy best known for his work throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Biography and career
Stanley Shaftel was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 14, 1924. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, and he joined the United States Navy after graduating, serving as a Naval pilot from 1942 to 1943.
As an architect, Shaftel mainly specialized in designing houses for large-scale suburban housing developments and in custom-built homes, working on projects in 16 states. A number of his earlier homes were collaborations between him and his first wife, Betty: he would design the house and she would decorate the interiors. In 1958, he would design the homes in the Suburban Greens development in Plainview, New York.
In the 1960s, Shaftel continued to design homes for countless large-scale suburban developments. He designed 60 homes for the Shaker Ridge development in Commack, New York, and 100 homes in 1963 for the Eastwood Knolls development in East Northport, New York. In the mid-1960s, Shaftel designed the homes for the Stratford Woods development in Flower Hill, New York; he also most homes in that village's Wildwood housing development - with some of the others being designed by others, such as A.H. Salkowitz.
Another architect, Alfred Akner, would eventually begin working with Shaftel, with the firm becoming Shaftel & Akner. He designed three variants of homes for the development: a colonial variant (known as the "Red Maple"), a country ranch variant (known as the "White Birch"), and a contemporary variant (known as the Blue Spruce").
Shaftel also served as a professor of architecture at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York. They had three daughters and several grandchildren.

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