The Dry Dock Savings Bank initiated foreclosure proceedings against the Dorilton in 1938, as the owners, the Seventy-first Street and Broadway Corporation, had failed to pay $1,263,904 on the mortgage. The bank acquired the building at a foreclosure auction that month. By October 1939, the building's managing agent reported that the Dorilton was fully rented. Isaac Prussin bought the building from the bank in 1945 at an assessed valuation of $900,000. At the time of Prussin's purchase, the building contained three stores, as well as 55 apartments with between four and seven rooms each. Prussin co-owned the Dorilton with Irving Stolz for five years. The men sold the building in February 1950 to a syndicate represented by Max Uviller; at the time, the building was worth $655,000.
