740 Park Avenue
The residential tower 740 Park Avenue has traditionally been one of the most elite addresses of New York on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Here only live the representatives of the super-rich in America, such as the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Bouviers and Chryslers. The owner 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 includes 31 residential units and has the highest ceilings and widest hallways around the Park Avenue. The Art Deco facade is made of limestone.
The corner plot has the address 71 East 71st Street.
Residents (selection)
- Thelma Chrysler Foy - Chrysler heiress.
- Jerzy Kosinski - Novelist.
- David H. Koch - Vice - President of the Industrial conglomerate Koch Industries (one of the largest private companies in the world and financier of the Tea Party movement ), and since 2005 has a duplex with 18 rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor, which have $ up costs 17 million should.
- Spyros Niarchos, the Greek shipping ( Niarchos Group)
- Ronald Lauder - entrepreneurs.
- Howard Marks - Chairman of Oaktree Capital Management.
- J. Ezra Merkin - hedge fund managers, son of Hermann Merkin.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - spent in the house of her childhood.
- Ronald Perelman - Investor.
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - heir to Standard Oil (now ExxonMobil, among others ), lived from 1937 to 1960 in a duplex with 24 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
- Steve Ross - former CEO of Time Warner.
- Stephen A. Schwarzman - a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers before founding the Blackstone Group, bought the house 2000 of Saul P. Steinberg for about $ 30 million.
- Saul Steinberg - Investor.
- John Thain - the highest -paid CEO of 2007, former Chairman of the investment bank Merrill Lynch.
- Vera Wang - American fashion designer of Chinese descent, inherited a duplex on the ninth and tenth floors of their father Cheng Ching Wang.