740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

The builders include the architectural genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman James T. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s grandfather), and a raft of financiers, many of whom were little more than white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers. From the author of House of Outrageous FortuneFor seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. At its core this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old bloodlines to new money. This is, truly, how the other half—or at least the other one hundredth of one percent—lives.. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most powerful families, some of America’s (and the world’s) oldest money—the kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier, Chrysler, Ni

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All rights reserved. Things perk up as we approach the modern era, and the old rich give way to a newer cast of sometimes dubious billionaires. Rockefeller Jr. signed a rental lease in 1936 for a massive apartment (more than 20,000 square feet), and Marshall Field III took another. This information, while exhaustive, is also exhausting. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Of all Manhattan's fabled East Side dwellings of the super-rich, 740 Park Avenue has perhaps the best pedigree. Designed by Rosario Candela and developed by James T. A bit of a bore for average readers, this will be a useful tome for those interested in New York's social history. Gross (Model) has solidly researched the denizens of the building, who they were, what they did, and who and how