All in
The Last Brownstone in Manhattan

In 1996, Manhattan developer Colin Rath signed a partnership agreement at Cipriani over champagne. Eighteen years later, on March 15, 2014, a federal judge dismissed the foreclosure on his Chelsea brownstone with prejudice. Between those two dates: a partner’s lawsuit filed on the morning of 9/11. A neighbor’s vendetta routed through the New York City Council Speaker Quinn. A foundation wall collapsing in a rainstorm. A foreman’s forged signatures. A New York Times article calling him a gentrification vulture. A father’s eight hundred fifty thousand dollar retirement put up as collateral. A market crash that erased the buyers. A mother’s stroke. A sibling ambush in a Stamford conference room. And finally, the legal crack wide enough to outlast it all — the banks claiming the mortgage could not prove they owned it.

The MERS chain-of-title defect at the heart of this story affected an estimated 3.8 million American homes. The Big Short explained the system from Wall Street. 99 Homes watched the foreclosure machine from a Florida motel after the eviction. Margin Call dramatized theboardroom. ALL IN is the only one of these stories told from inside the family fighting to keep their house.

The brownstones still stand at 121 and 123 West 15th Street. The Times article is in the archive. The federal court ruling is on the public docket. The memoir — The Last Brownstone in Manhattan by Colin Rath — is on Amazon. ALL IN is what happened in between.

Adapted by Colin Rath and his daughter, Breana Harvey Rath. Directed by Ken Kokin. Produced by Viewpark. Principal photography commenced December 2025.