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

A fun read about history in the making !!!

A real page turner about so many familiar names..... Loved every moment of the read !!

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740 Stars

I love any and every story about New York, from the movie ¿Midnight Cowboy¿ to the new and shocking ¿Katzenjammer¿ novel by Jackson McCrae. But 740 Park really got to me. Well-researched, this riveting book provides a look into the lives (not so private at times) of some of the most public of all Manhattanites. A ¿rich¿ (sorry) chronicle of some of the most influential people in the world (all living under one big roof), 740 Park will definitely keep your attention. Five big stars for the ones who live at this address . . . and for the author.

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Great read!

Detailed and entertaining account of life at 740 Park over many years--how the rich live and behave. Goes to show what Mama always said, "money can't buy class."

Fascinating book!

Michael Gross gives an insightful glimpse into an era, an amazing place and the wealthy lifestyle that inhabit both. A good read!

a great book chronicling NY upper society

If you like culture, gossip and history this is a book you will, without a doubt, love.

740 Park Ave

Some parts interesting. Some not so.

Not Architecture, but a Who's Who of New York Gossip.

This is a generally well written book. The problem I had with it is quite simply this is Tales From the Social Register. Also, there are zero photographs of 740 Parks exterior, and only three interior photos. I cannot fathom why this decision was made; it severely hinders any understanding of 740s interior layout, and prevents an appreciation of the stucture, as it relates to the authors main purpose; who lived here, slept here, cheated here and died here. Not what I was hoping for. Less bluebloods and more brick and mortar content were in order.

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The reality-TV version of a Dominick Dunne novel!

With a story that includes the ten year old Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy sending a Valentine to her just-moving-in upstairs neighbor John D. Rockefeller Jr. - then chronicles the apartment swapping antics of 80's nouvelles Henry Kravis, Ronald Perelman and Saul Steinberg (whose 'night of the dueling locksmiths' reads like the Marx Brothers meets Fatal Attraction) - while at the same time letting us into the world of the true aristocrats - those bluebloods who abhor publicity, live quietly, and think of themselves as 'just regular folks' (all the while living on the income of their incomes and keeping fourteen live-in servants) 740 PARK: THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST APARTMENT BUILDING is an amazing story that would be deemed impossibly over the top as fiction. Yet each savory detail, every word - including the 'ands' and the 'thes' rings convincingly true. Who knew a history of American capitalism could be so damn juicy!

This Is My Home And Is True

This book shows only half of the juicy details that have happened on the lovely 740 Park. I Grew Up Behind the guarded walls of 740 park, I saw , I herd , I was apart of alot, but yet we say very little to people not of our own kind, people who can't understand what having money brings and what guidlines that you have follow that have been passed down from generation to generation. So many people are thrilled and so many are mad about this book that Mr.Michael Gross has written but it is time for the details to be released on the building and what lies behind the stone walls. Just imagine if those walls could talk now that would be a book.

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

740 Park Avenue deftly goes to the heart of the causes of discontent and mirth that we privileged at The 740, the Hamptons, Newport, Bradbury Estates, Palm Beach Polo, PGA West all feel in an undulating fashion throughout each minute and hour of life. This magnificent collection of morality tales deserves a subtitle borrowed from Uncle Tom's Cabin: 'Tink ob yer marcies, chillen!'

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

I met my husband at a party at 740 Park Avenue. The hostess was one of his many girlfriends. Now a great friend, she appeared to make up the stories that I now know from this phenomenally outstanding treatise on the cuckoo's nest of Park Avenue that it is all true. Mike Gross left out some juicy stories that deserve to be revealed in Part 2. Mike, we're waiting.

A Fundamental Look Into American Society

This book is for anyone who is interested in reading about the social elite in New York. It is a fascinating dive into social history. The who's who of New York have graced the halls of this historic building.

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