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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address

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by Gross, Michael


  Linde, Edward H., 117, 118, 119, 124, 125

  Lipton, Philip, 115–16, 138

  Loeb, Daniel, xiv, xvi, xvii–xviii, 2, 4, 190, 204, 225, 226–39, 242, 243, 248, 276, 359

  Loeb, Margaret, 230–31, 234, 237, 239, 272

  Logothetis, George, 216

  Lumiere, Alexandra, 207, 208

  Lurie, Ranan, 349–51

  Lurie, Tamar, 350, 351

  Lutyens, Edward, 186

  M

  MacArthur, Arthur IV, 164–65

  MacArthur, Douglas, 117, 164

  MacArthur, John D., 117

  Maccioni, Sirio, 68n, 125

  MacDonald, Robert, 267

  MacFarlane, Victor, 176, 177, 200

  Mack, Bill, 113, 129–30

  Mack, Hyman Burt, 113, 130

  Macklowe, Harry, 82, 92, 93–94

  Madison Capital, 176–77, 277

  Madison Square, 30, 32, 92

  Madison Square Garden, 74, 112

  Maine Monument, 34, 114, 120

  Majestic apartment house, 10, 25, 32, 41, 42, 130, 363

  Makker, Gotham and Vicky, 285

  Mallaby, Sebastian, 221, 222

  Manchester, William, 165

  Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, 129, 131, 319

  Manhattan Marketing, 72

  Manhattan Place condominium, 92

  Manhattan Square, 24–25

  Manship, Paul, 114

  Marathon Asset Management, 5n, 319, 321

  Marcus, Marlene, 199

  Martin, Rodney O. “Rod,” 259, 272

  Martinez, David, 133

  Martyslane, Marina, 298

  Mason, Christopher, 126

  Mayer, Marissa, 238

  Mayfair House, 68, 68n, 69, 78, 125, 267, 268

  Mayflower Hotel (Mayflower block), 277

  auction of, 149, 151, 156–61, 156n, 176

  Avlon’s acquisition of, 134, 136, 137, 138, 141

  building and opening of, 37, 38

  Columbus Circle decline and, 43, 110, 111

  demolition of, 169

  relocating tenants from, 163–70

  terra-cotta ornamentation removed from, 138–39

  Zeckendorf brothers’ winning bid for, 150, 151, 156–62, 163, 348

  McAdams, Margaret, 305–06

  McAlpin Hotel, 69

  McCrary, Tex, 58n

  McKim, Mead & White, 10, 39

  McLoughlin, Ruth, 216, 328, 347

  Marine Midland Trust, 65–66

  Mechanic, Jonathan, 363

  Mecik, Z. Richard, 298

  Meier, Richard, 176, 276

  Mermelstein, Edward, 297, 352

  Metcalfe, Guy, 258

  Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 42, 67

  Metropolitan Opera, 41, 49, 52, 98, 128–29

  Metropolitan Tower, 92–94, 109

  Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), 117, 118, 119, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129

  Metz, Justin, 157, 161, 176–77, 197, 199, 202–03, 209, 258

  Mikhailov, Alex, 352

  Mikulich, Raymond C. “Ray,” 249

  Millennium Partners, 101–02, 103, 127, 128, 129, 139–40, 143, 151

  Millennium Tower, 102–03, 109, 143, 174, 196n

  Milken, Michael, 330

  Milstein, Paul, 98–99

  Milstein, Seymour, 98–99

  Milstein family, 47, 99n

  Min Sun, 216

  Minskoff, Edward J., 159, 172

  Mirels, Hilton, 302

  Mirels, Linda, 302

  Mitchell, William J., 127

  Mitsubishi, 105–06

  Mittal, Saurabh K., 330

  Moon, Keith, 69

  Morgan, J. Pierpont, 33

  Morgan, Marie Louise, 35, 36–37

  Morgan, Matthew, 35

  Morgan, William R., 35

  Morgan & Sons, 35

  Morgan family, 221

  Morgan Stanley, 4, 127–128, 214, 217, 248, 258, 264, 314, 333

  Morris, Lloyd, 10, 39

  Moses, Robert, 60, 97, 112–14, 117

  Mott, Stewart, 87

  Municipal Art Society, 119

  Muschamp, Herbert, 123

  Municipal Art Society, 119

  Museum of Arts and Design, 193

  Museum of Modern Art, 55, 90

  Museum Tower, 90, 109

  Myers, John, 122

  N

  Naftali, Miki, 159

  NBC, 5, 34, 54, 113, 265, 266

  Neidich, Dan, 102, 104, 106, 108, 187, 210

  New Amsterdam, 17

  New Central Park Garden, 31–32

  Newman, David, 339–40

  Newman, Frank, 214

  New Silk Route Partners, 344–45

  Newsweek, 238, 372

  New York Central Railroad, 50, 52

  New York City Ballet, 98

  New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 117

  New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, 44, 139, 140

  New York City Planning Commission, 140

  New Yorker, 53, 170, 281

  New-York Historical Society, 26

  New York magazine, 66, 119, 126, 223, 229, 300

  New York Philharmonic Symphony, 98

  New York Police Department (NYPD), 310, 311

  New York Post, xviii, 75, 133, 146, 224, 270, 285, 328, 334, 371

  New York State Theater, 98

  New York Times, 25, 27, 72, 73, 76, 77, 89, 92, 99, 110, 115, 120, 123, 126, 133, 143, 144, 145, 149, 162, 193, 206, 213, 223, 224–25, 237, 257, 260, 283, 285, 289, 302, 324, 340, 341, 368

  Nouvel, Jean, 335–36

  O

  Obama, Barack, 234, 235, 236, 237

  Occupy Wall Street, 244

  Och, Daniel Saul, 218–21, 226, 242, 243, 276, 359

  Och, Jane, 220

  Och-Ziff Capital Management, 43n, 218, 219–20, 226

  Ofer, Idan, 3, 199, 202, 291, 301, 325

  Ofer, Eyal, xiv, xv–xvi, 3, 147–49, 155–56, 157, 158–59, 161, 176, 177, 194, 195, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 205, 208, 216, 217, 218, 290, 291, 296, 325, 361, 368

  Ofer, Marilyn, 205

  Ofer, Sammy, 147–48

  Ofer family, 148–49

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 20, 29

  Olympic Tower, 13, 72, 85–88, 89, 90, 93, 109, 127

  Omedes, Elizabeth, 207–08

  Onassis, Aristotle, 12–13, 72, 85, 86, 87

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 11, 13, 119, 179

  One Lincoln Square condominium, 103

  Opatrny, Donald C. Jr., 210

  Osborne co-operative, 93

  P

  Pan Shiyi, 214, 215

  Parc Vendome apartment house, 49

  Park Belvedere, 74, 76, 363

  Park Imperial condominium, 130, 276

  Park Millennium condominium, 102, 276

  Park West Village, 8, 60

  Parley, Michael, 150–51, 153, 154

  Parsons, Richard, 129

  Paulson, Henry “Hank,” 199, 200, 313

  Pei, I. M., 55, 60–61, 62, 64, 66, 80, 119, 171, 172, 187

  Pell, Lewis, 290, 291

  Pelli, César, 90, 128, 140, 171–72

  Pelli, Rafael, 140, 153, 171–72

  Pentagram, 185

  Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, 98

  Phipps, Henry, 11

  Pirogova, Natalia, 297–98

  Plaza Hotel, 22, 39, 292, 329, 341

  Poillon, George, 35

  Poillon, Winfield, 35

  Poillon, Winifred, 35, 37

  Polshek, James, 171

  PolyGram, 75, 76, 227

  Prasada apartment house, 27

  Prokhorov, Mikhail, 300, 340

  R

  Rabey, Alexander, 352

  Rajaratnam, Raj, 344, 345

  Raynes, Martin J., 100, 102

  Rehfeld, Barry, 247

  Reich, Cary¸ 49, 58n

  Related Companies, 127, 129–31, 132–33, 152, 159, 160–61, 172, 176, 209

  Residences at Mandarin Oriental
, 131

  Richards, Avis, 319–23, 324

  Richards, Bruce, 206, 319–23

  Rieger, Richard O., 243

  Ritz Tower, 39

  River House, 179

  Riverside Drive, 45, 60

  Robert A. M. Stern Architects, 128. See also Stern, Robert A. M.

  Roberts, Andrew, 298

  Roberts, Brian, 6

  Rockefeller, David, 58

  Rockefeller, John D. Jr., 52–53, 56–57, 58, 98, 364

  Rockefeller, John D. III, 98

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 53, 54–55, 56, 58n

  Rockefeller Center, 13, 53, 78, 189

  Rockefeller family, 53, 54, 58, 58n, 78n, 133, 218, 221

  Rodriguez, Alex “A-Rod,” 5, 311, 328–29, 331, 333, 333n, 346

  Romney, Mitt, 237

  Roosevelt Field shopping mall, 8, 58

  Rose, Joseph B., 141

  Rose family, 47

  Rosenberg, Gary, 328

  Rosenberg, Ralph, 106, 107, 108–09, 159, 188, 218

  Rosenstein, Barry, 204–05, 225, 239–42, 276

  Rosenwald, Lindsay, 285–90, 301, 324, 345

  Rosenwald, Rivki Davis, 286, 288, 289, 290

  Rosenzweig, Roy, 19

  Ross, Gerald, 300

  Ross, Stephen, 129, 159, 172, 176, 209

  Ross, Wilbur, 22

  Roth, Emery, 37–38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 110

  Rothenberg, Stuart, 155, 156–57, 176, 183–84, 202, 217–18

  Rothschild, Jacob, 25

  Roubini, Nouriel, 253

  Rozenholc, David, 168, 169, 170

  Rubenstein, Howard, 205

  Rubenstein, Richard, 205, 262

  Rubenstein Public Relations, 133, 205

  Rudin family, 47

  Ruskin, Larry, 285, 305

  Russell, Douglas, 283, 284

  Russians and Russian immigrants

  condominium ownership by, 12, 13, 43n, 297, 340, 352

  as 15CPW residents, 3, 7, 209, 264, 292, 295–96, 297–98, 299–300, 335–36, 341, 352

  Russo, Gaetano, 30

  Ruttenbaum, Steven, 39, 43–44

  Ryan, Penny, 309

  Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 7, 292–96, 298, 301, 335–41, 342, 352, 359

  Rybolovleva, Anna, 295, 336, 337, 338

  Rybolovleva, Ekaterina, 7, 292, 335–36, 339, 340, 341

  Rybolovleva, Elena, 296, 336–41

  S

  Safdie, Moshe, 118, 120, 128

  St. Tropez condominium, 12

  St. Urban apartment house, 27

  Salomon Brothers, 117, 118, 119, 120, 124, 246

  Salwen, Peter, 18

  Salzberg, Barry and Evelyn, 282

  San Remo apartment house, 10, 25, 40, 42–43, 44, 144, 171, 180

  Saxena, Parag, 284, 344–45

  Schecter, Leroy, 329–30, 329n, 331, 341–42, 342n

  Schiller, Robert, 251

  Schirmer, Gustav, 22, 44

  Schuyler, Montgomery, 27

  Schwartz, Robert, 226–27

  Schwarzman, Stephen, 133, 221, 237, 330

  Scutt, Der, 88

  Seagram Building, 96, 122

  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 65, 229, 235, 238, 247, 254, 287, 313, 314, 330, 344

  Segan, Alan, 133

  Seinuk, Ysrael, 122

  Sellers, Patricia, 252

  Selznick, David O., 31

  Selznick, Louis, 31

  Selznick, Myron, 31

  Seneca Village, 18

  September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, 58, 131, 132, 212, 297

  Sethi, Raj, 211, 213, 345

  Shachtman, Tom, 43n, 78, 96

  Shanken, Hazel, 264, 265

  Shanken, Marvin, 6, 264–65, 266

  Shapiro, Irwin, 166

  Shashkin, Nikita, 300

  Shaw, Bernard, 132

  Shearn, Clarence, 55–57, 57n, 364, 55n

  Shearn, Dorothea, 55–57

  Sheftell, Jason, 328

  Sherman-Taylor Corp., 137

  Short, R. Thomas, 28–29

  Shubert, Lee, 42

  Shubert family, 31, 33, 41, 137

  Shuch, Alan, 210

  Silverman, Henry, 329, 330–32

  Silverman, Nancy, 330, 331, 332

  Silverstein, Larry, 79

  Simon, Deborah, 7, 216

  Simon, Peter, 274–75, 329

  Singh, Ravi M., 211, 301

  SJP Properties, 160

  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 124

  SLCE, 153, 154, 170, 171, 173, 181

  Sloane, Kathy, 190

  Smidt, Eric, 6

  Snider, Edward, 6, 271

  Snider, Arnold and Katherine, 243

  Soane, Sir John, 185

  Somekh, Dorothy, 208, 282

  Somerindyck, James, 17

  Somerindyck, John, 16–17

  Sorensen, Gillian, 348–49

  Sorensen, Theodore, 348–49

  South Ferry Plaza, 75

  Special Lincoln Square Zoning District, 103, 140–41

  Speyer, Jerry, 151

  Spielberg, Steven, 88, 126

  Springsteen, Bruce, 69, 311

  Statler Hilton, 69

  Steckmest, Elisabeth June, 216

  Stein, Linda, 126

  Steinberg, Saul, 221, 330

  Steinway, Theodore, 22, 44

  Stern, Robert A. M.

  apartment floor plans by, xv, 171, 179–80, 181, 187–91, 245, 315, 348, 361

  apartments per floor and, 187–88, 189–90

  basement health club design and, 186–87

  classic New York apartment houses as inspiration for, 28, 172, 174, 179–80

  Coliseum project proposal from, 128

  design of 15CPW’s top and, 184

  entrances and street-level appearance and, 184–86

  garage design and, 192–93

  hidden structural components and, 192

  interior finishes designed by, 191, 241, 272, 315

  kitchens and bathrooms designed by, 191

  limestone exterior chosen by, 174–75, 177–78, 194, 261

  lobby design by, 173–74, 185

  Rose’s Sixty-Fifth Street project with, 172

  on Roth’s buildings, 38, 40

  sales campaign featuring, xv, 205–06, 283, 348

  sales office designed by, 204

  selection of, for 15CPW project, 171–73

  on the demand for large apartments, 107

  weekly design meetings with, 175

  Stiefel, Stephanie, 263

  Sting, 2, 5, 126, 270–71, 273, 311, 312, 317, 323, 359

  Stone, Edward Durell, 114, 115

  Stribling, Elizabeth, 13, 86

  Sukenik, Herbert J., 165–70, 193

  Sunshine, Louise, 84–85, 122, 125, 126–27, 131, 198, 199

  Sutton, Jill, 266

  T

  Tahari, Elie, 316, 326, 327

  Taibbi, Matt, 313

  Taylor, John, 119–20

  Television City project, 54, 96

  terrorist attack (September 11, 2001), 58, 131, 132, 212, 297

  Third Point LLC, 4, 226, 227–28, 229, 230, 232, 233, 238, 238n

  Thompson, Scott, 238

  Thorn, Abigail Somerindyck, 17

  Thors, Thor, 305

  Tiffany & Co., 84, 85

  Tihany, Adam, 85

  Times Square, 10, 31, 41, 72, 78–79, 171, 180

  Time Warner Center

  apartments in, 133–34, 199, 252, 263, 274

  building of, 129–33, 144, 153, 176, 192

  15CPW and, 172, 174, 181, 199, 252, 266, 270, 285, 316, 321, 322, 324

  Jazz at Lincoln Center in, 129, 130

  offices in, 129, 176, 181, 351

  sales at, 130–31, 132, 151, 198, 205, 270, 297

  Time Warner Inc, xiv, 129

  Tisch, Merryl, 302

  Tishman, Alan, 65

  Tishman, David, 43n

  Tishman family, 47, 151

  Tolchin, Gary and Tamar, 215–16

  Tobishi
ma, 78, 105–06

  Trager, James, 60

  Trebuhs Realty, 31

  Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, 114, 117

  Trump, Fred, 83, 129

  Trump, Donald, 295, 329

  background of, 83–84

  on “Big Bill” Zeckendorf, 96

  Coliseum site redevelopment and, 127, 128

  financial conditions and, 79, 96–97

  Florida real estate of, 295, 329

  515 Park Avenue and, 107, 146

  Kondylis’s work with, 92, 96

  Mayflower block bidding and, 152, 155–56, 162

  Time Warner Center and, 130, 131

  Trump International Hotel and, 121–24, 125–27, 128, 174

  Trump Tower and, 84–86, 88–89, 91, 96–97, 90, 109, 122, 250

  Trump, Ivana, 89

  Trump City project, 96

  Trump International Hotel and Tower, Columbus Circle, 121–24, 125–27, 131, 134, 134, 144, 146, 174, 199, 205, 244, 268, 283, 302, 309

  Trump Plaza, 91, 92

  Trump Tower, Fifth Avenue, 84–86, 88–89, 91, 96–97, 90, 109, 122, 250

  Trump World Tower, 96

  Tshuva, Isaac, 159

  Tsinberg, Mike and Faina, 353–54, 356, 357–58, 359

  Tudor City, 51n

  Twentieth Century-Fox, 61

  U

  Ullman, Barbara Marcin, 301, 302, 303, 304

  Ullman, Kenneth, 303–04

  Ullman, Richard, 301–04

  Union Square, 32, 70, 72, 73

  United Nations (UN), 52–53, 54, 96, 361

  United Nations Foundation, 348

  Upper East Side, 9, 78, 105, 180

  V

  Vagelos, Roy, 325

  Van Cortlandt family, 16

  Vandebosch, Ingrid, 204

  van Starrenburg, Daniel and Annica Cooper, 249

  Varadhan, Ashok, 211–12, 320

  Varadhan, Gopal, 212

  Varadhan, Srinivasa, 211–12

  Vargas, Victor, 210

  Vaux, Calvert, 20

  Volcker, Paul, 251

  Vongerichten, Jean-Georges, 125–26, 130

  W

  Wagner Thomas, 212–13

  Wahlberg, Mark, 5, 312, 328

  Waldron, John E., 310

  Walker, Jeffrey C., 259–61

  Wallgren, Richard, 198, 200

  Wall Street Journal, 32, 63, 78–79, 81–82, 96, 119, 120, 235, 236, 238, 239, 245, 255, 269, 270, 286, 287, 320, 327, 335, 342

  Walsh, Kayte, 328

  Wanzenberg, Alan, 187

  Ward, Vicky, 252

  Washington, Denzel, 2, 5, 269–70, 311, 312, 359

  Washington, Pauletta, 269

  Washington Post, 79, 344

  Wasserstein, Bruce, 364

  Webb & Knapp, 49–51, 53, 54, 55–56, 58, 60, 61–68, 70, 98, 171

  Weill, Joan, 248, 307, 315, 334–35, 358

 

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