740 Park Avenue
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| Place: | New York City |
| Opening: | 1929 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architect : | Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon |
The residential high-rise 740 Park Avenue is traditionally one of the most elite addresses in New York on Park Avenue in Manhattan . Only representatives of the super-rich America live here, such as the Vanderbilts , Rockefellers , Bouviers and Chryslers. The builder was James T. Lee , grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy . The building was built in 1929 to designs by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon. They were partners in the office of Shreve, Lamb and Harmon . The building comprises 31 units and has the highest ceilings and widest hallways on Park Avenue. The Art Deco facade is made of limestone .
The corner lot is also at 71 East 71st Street .
Residents (selection)
- Thelma Chrysler Foy - Chrysler heiress.
- David H. Koch - Vice President of the Koch Industries conglomerate (one of the world's largest privately owned companies and financier of the tea party movement ), has owned an 18-room maisonette on the 3rd and 4th floors since 2005 that cost $ 17 million should.
- Jerzy Kosiński - novelist.
- Ronald Lauder - entrepreneur.
- Howard Marks - Chairman of Oaktree Capital Management .
- J. Ezra Merkin - hedge fund manager, son of Hermann Merkin .
- Spyros Niarchos , the Greek shipowner (Niarchos Group)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - spent her childhood in the house.
- Ronald Perelman - investor.
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - the heir to Standard Oil (now including ExxonMobil ), lived in a maisonette with 24 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms from 1937 to 1960.
- Steve Ross - Former CEO of Time Warner .
- Stephen A. Schwarzman - one of the directors of Lehman Brothers before founding the Blackstone Group , bought Saul P. Steinberg's apartment in 2000 for approximately $ 30 million.
- Saul Steinberg - Investor.
- John Thain - highest paid CEO from 2007, former chairman of investment bank Merrill Lynch .
- Vera Wang - American fashion designer of Chinese descent, inherited a maisonette on the ninth and tenth floors from her father, Cheng Ching Wang.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Goldberger: The King of Central Park West . In: Vanity Fair , September 1, 2008. ISSN 0733-8899 . Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e Gross, Michael. "Where the Boldface Bunk" , articles in The New York Times , March 11, 2004. Retrieved on September 28, 2012
- ↑ Josh Barbenel: The Candidate as Landlord , The New York Times . October 29, 2006. Retrieved April 10, 2007.
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- ↑ Merrill Lynch CEO Thain Spent $ 1.22 million On Office , CNBC . January 22, 2009.
literature
- Michael Gross : 740 Park - The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building . Broadway Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-385-51209-1
- Where the Boldfaced Bunk by Michael Gross, The New York Times, March 11, 2004
- Curbed Q&A: Michael Gross on 740 Park's $ 27m Penthouse (Interview, Jan. 2006) "With duplex penthouse 17D at legendary apartment building 740 Park Avenue hitting the market priced at $ 27.5 million,"
- The Upper East Side Book By Carter B. Horsley (gives references to articles about Candela's design for the building)
- Streetscapes: 740 Park Avenue; Repairs for a '29 Luxury Co-op by Christopher Gray, The New York Times , October 21, 1990
- Andrew Alpern. "The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter, " Acanthus Press, 2001
Movies
- 740 Park Avenue - Money, Power, and the American Dream. Documentary, Germany / Denmark, 2012, 55 min. Director: Alex Gibney, first broadcast: November 29, 2012
Web links
Commons : 740 Park Avenue - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
- Curbed : Floor plans 740 Park's Penthouse (Upper Level) , Peering Deep Inside 740 Park Avenue
Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 15 " N , 73 ° 57 ′ 53" W.