720 Park Avenue

Apartment building in Manhattan, New York

720 Park Avenue

General information
Architectural style| Neoclassical architecture
Location| 720 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Coordinates| 40°46′13″N 73°57′54″W﻿ / ﻿40.7702°N 73.96491°W﻿ / 40.7702; -73.96491
Completed| 1928
Technical details
Floor count| 17
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Cross & Cross
Rosario Candela

720 Park Avenue is a historic residential building in Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, U.S. A cooperative, the building has 34 apartments, a gymnasium and storage spaces.[1] It is secured by a full-time doorman.[1]

## History

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The 17-story building was completed in 1928.[2][1] It was designed by Cross & Cross and Rosario Candela in the Neoclassical architectural style.[2][3] It is 62.18 meters tall.[2]

In the 1930s, Jesse I. Straus, the co-owner of Macy's who served as the United States Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936, lived in a duplex in this building.[4]

Billionaire Robert Ziff owns an apartment at 720 Park Avenue.[citation needed]

In 2008, diplomat Carl Spielvogel, who served as the United States Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2000 to 2001, sold his apartment in the building to businessman Peter S. Kraus, the chairman and chief executive officer of AllianceBernstein, for US$37 million.[5] In 2013, an apartment was listed for US$25 million.[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b c "720 Park Avenue". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
2. ^ a b c "720 Park Avenue". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
3. ^ a b Dailey, Jessica (March 8, 2013). "720 Park Avenue Penthouse Has Three Terraces, Wants $25M". Curbed. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
4. ^ Alpern, Andrew (1992). Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History. New York: Dover Publications. p. 182\. ISBN 0486273709. OCLC 803557032.
5. ^ Shari, Michael (May 30, 2010). "Goldman alum Peter Kraus' defiant, decadent return". The New York Post. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

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Structures on Park Avenue in Manhattan

Below 32nd Street|

* 770 Broadway
* Daryl Roth Theatre
* 44 Union Square
* 200 South (Everett)
* 201 South (W New York)
* 225 South
* 281 South (Church Missions House)
* Fotografiska New York
* 287 South (United Charities Building)
* 300 South
* 316 South (Met Life South Building)
* 324 South (Met Life North Building)
* 365 South (Hotel Giraffe)
* 370 South (New York Life Building)

32nd–59th Streets|

* 2
* 3
* 4
* 41 (Robb House)
* 57 (Douglas House)
* 58 (Scandinavia House)
* 59 (Our Saviour Roman Catholic Church)
* Union League Club
* 101
* 125 (Pershing Square Building)
* 175 (proposed)
* 200 (MetLife Building)
* 230 (Helmsley Building)
* 245
* 270
* 277
* 299
* 301 (Waldorf Astoria)
* St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
* 345
* 350 (proposed)
* Park Avenue Plaza
* 370 (Racquet and Tennis Club)
* 375 (Seagram Building)
* 390 (Lever House)
* 399
* Park Avenue Tower
* 425
* 432
* 450
* 465 (Ritz Tower)
* 500

Above 59th Street|

* 502 (Trump Park Avenue)
* 520
* 535
* 550
* 593 (Central Presbyterian Church)
* 620
* 625
* 643 (Park Avenue Armory)
* 655
* Harold Pratt House
* Park Avenue Houses
* 680 (Percy R. Pyne House)
* 684 (Oliver D. Filley House)
* 686 (William Sloane House)
* 690 (Henry P. Davison House)
* 720
* 730
* 737
* 740
* 903
* 970
* 980 (Church of St. Ignatius Loyola)
* 1000
* Lewis G. Morris House
* 1010 (Park Avenue Christian Church)
* Brick Presbyterian Church
* George F. Baker Jr. Houses

Transportation|

| Subway stations|

* 18th Street (former)
* 23rd Street
* 28th Street
* 33rd Street
* Grand Central–42nd Street

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Railroad stations|

* Grand Central Terminal
* Grand Central Madison
* 59th Street (unused)
* 72nd Street (former)
* 86th Street (former)
* 110th Street (former)
* Harlem–125th Street

Bridges and tunnels|

* Subway tunnel (14th–42nd)
* Road tunnel (30th–42nd)
* Road viaduct (40th–46th)
* Railroad tunnel and viaduct
* Railroad bridge

Former/unbuilt|

* Belmont Hotel
* 42nd Street Airlines Terminal
* 175 (Grand Central Tower)
* 112 South (Murray Hill Hotel)
* 270 (Hotel Marguery)
* 270 (Union Carbide Building)
* 430 (Hoffman Auto Showroom)

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Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill, Lenox Hill, and Yorkville)

Manhattan, New York City

Buildings

| 59th–72nd Sts|

* 19 East 64th Street
* 36 East 72nd Street
* 45 East 66th Street
* 131 East 66th Street
* 520 Park Avenue
* 535 Park Avenue
* 550 Park Avenue
* 620 Park Avenue
* 625 Park Avenue
* 655 Park Avenue
* 720 Park Avenue
* 730 Park Avenue
* 737 Park Avenue
* 740 Park Avenue
* 810 Fifth Avenue
* 820 Fifth Avenue
* 825 Fifth Avenue
* 834 Fifth Avenue
* 880 Fifth Avenue
* 907 Fifth Avenue
* Barbizon 63
* Bloomingdale's
* Edward J. Berwind House
* Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House
* Harold Pratt House
* Henry Clay Frick House
* Herbert N. Straus House
* Imperial House
* Manhattan House
* Marshall Orme Wilson House
* Millan House
* Park Avenue Armory
* Park Avenue Houses
* Henry P. Davison House
* Oliver D. Filley House
* Percy R. Pyne House
* William Sloane House
* Park Cinq
* The Pierre
* Rowhouses at 322–344 East 69th Street
* Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House
* Trump Palace Condominiums
* Trump Park Avenue
* Trump Plaza
* United States Post Office–Lenox Hill Station

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72nd–86th Sts|

* 10 Gracie Square
* 20 East End Avenue
* 903 Park Avenue
* 927 Fifth Avenue
* 930 Fifth Avenue
* 960 Fifth Avenue
* 970 Park Avenue
* 980 Madison Avenue
* 995 Fifth Avenue
* 998 Fifth Avenue
* 1000 Park Avenue
* 1020 Fifth Avenue
* 1040 Fifth Avenue
* 1049 Fifth Avenue
* Belaire Apartments
* Benjamin N. Duke House
* Casa 74
* The Charles
* Cherokee Apartments
* Clarence Whitman Mansion
* Consulate General of France, New York City
* East 73rd Street Historic District
* East 80th Street Houses
* Edward S. Harkness House
* The Forum at 343 East 74th Street
* Harry F. Sinclair House
* Henry T. Sloane House
* Houses at 157–165 East 78th Street
* Houses at 208–218 East 78th Street
* James B. Duke House
* Joseph Pulitzer House
* Lewis G. Morris House
* Nathaniel L. McCready House
* Oliver Gould Jennings House
* Payne Whitney House
* Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House
* Stuyvesant Fish House
* William Starr Miller House
* Yorkville Bank Building

86th–96th Sts|

* Andrew Carnegie Mansion
* Carnegie Hill Tower
* Edith Fabbri House
* Felix M. Warburg House
* George F. Baker Jr. Houses
* Gracie Mansion
* Holmes Towers
* Isaacs Houses
* James A. Burden House
* John Henry Hammond House
* Lucy Drexel Dahlgren House
* Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House
* Municipal Asphalt Plant
* Ogden Codman House
* Otto H. Kahn House
* Willard D. Straight House
* William Goadby Loew House
* Yorkville Bank Building

Former|

* Arthur Curtiss James House
* C. Ledyard Blair House
* Elbridge T. Gerry Mansion
* George Blumenthal House
* George J. Gould House
* Henry Phipps House
* Hotel New Netherland
* Isaac Stern House
* James Speyer House
* Jay Gould House
* Lenox Library
* Mrs. William B. Astor House
* Ogden Mills House
* William A. Clark House
* William C. Whitney House
* William Salomon House
* William Ziegler House

Culture

| Shops, restaurants|

* A La Vieille Russie
* Albertine Books
* Bemelmans Bar
* Brasserie Julien
* Café Boulud
* Caravaggio
* Carlyle Restaurant
* Daniel
* Dorrian's Red Hand Restaurant
* Galerie Chalette
* J.G. Melon
* JoJo
* King's Carriage House
* La Goulue
* Lusardi's
* Kappo Masa Restaurant
* Orwashers Bakery
* Sasabune
* Serendipity 3
* Sfoglia
* Sushi of Gari
* Sushi Noz
* Sushi Seki
* Le Veau d'Or

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Museums|

* Bernard Museum of Judaica
* Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
* Frick Collection
* Jewish Museum
* Metropolitan Museum of Art
* The Met Fifth Avenue
* Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
* Neue Galerie New York
* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Theaters/performing arts|

* 59E59 Theaters
* Bohemian National Hall
* East 74th Street Theater

Galleries|

* Acquavella Galleries
* Anita Shapolsky Gallery
* Di Donna Galleries
* Doyle New York
* Florian Papp
* Gagosian Gallery
* Jane Kahan Gallery
* Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
* Kraushaar Galleries
* Venus Over Manhattan

Hotels|

* Bentley Hotel
* Carlyle Hotel
* Lowell Hotel
* The Mark Hotel
* Hotel Plaza Athénée

Social clubs|

* 92nd Street Y
* Cosmopolitan Club
* Harmonie Club
* Knickerbocker Club
* Lotos Club
* Metropolitan Club

Former|

* Bodley Gallery
* Brasserie Julien
* Buck House NYC
* Cachaça
* The Colony
* Dangerfield's
* Elaine's
* Etats-Unis
* Magic Towne House
* Maxwell's Plum
* Met Breuer
* Quo Vadis
* Regine's
* Salon 94
* The Sign of the Dove
* Stable Gallery

Green spaces/recreation

* Carl Schurz Park
* Central Park
* John Jay Park

Education

| Libraries|

* Frick Art Reference Library
* Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive
* New York Society Library
* Robert Goldwater Library
* Thomas J. Watson Library
* Yorkville Library

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Primary and secondary|

* Allen-Stevenson School
* Brearley School
* Birch Wathen Lenox School
* Buckley School
* Caedmon School* Chapin School
* Dalton School
* Eleanor Roosevelt High School
* Hewitt School
* Hunter College Elementary School
* Hunter College High School
* Julia Richman Education Complex
* Talent Unlimited High School
* Urban Academy Laboratory High School
* La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi
* Loyola School
* Lycée Français de New York
* Marymount School of New York
* Nightingale-Bamford School
* PS 6
* PS 158
* Ramaz School
* Regis High School
* St. Jean Baptiste High School
* St. Vincent Ferrer High School
* Sephardic Academy of Manhattan
* Spence School
* The Town School
* Trevor Day School

Post-secondary|

* Hunter College
* Assembly Hall
* Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
* Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
* Marymount Manhattan College
* New York School of Interior Design
* Rockefeller University
* Nurses Residence
* Welch Hall

Other institutions|

* Cornell School of Nursing
* Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
* National Academy of Design

Religion

| Churches, chapels|

* Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
* Brick Presbyterian Church
* Central Presbyterian Church
* Christ Church United Methodist
* Church of the Epiphany
* Church of the Heavenly Rest
* Church of Our Lady of Peace
* Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
* Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
* Holy Trinity Church, St. Christopher House and Parsonage
* Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
* Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
* Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
* Park Avenue Christian Church
* St. Catherine of Siena Church
* St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church
* St. James' Episcopal Church
* St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church
* St. Joseph Church
* St. Mary Church
* St. Monica Church
* St. Stephen of Hungary Church
* St. Thomas More Church
* Unitarian Church of All Souls
* Zion-St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Synagogues|

* Altneu
* Congregation Emanu-El of New York
* Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
* Congregation Or Zarua
* Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
* Fifth Avenue Synagogue
* Park Avenue Synagogue
* Park East Synagogue
* Temple Beth-El
* Temple Israel of the City of New York
* Temple Shaaray Tefila

Other|

* New York Zendo Shobo-Ji

Health

* Gracie Square Hospital
* Hospital for Special Surgery
* Laboratory for Bioregenerative Medicine and Surgery
* Lenox Hill Hospital
* Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
* Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
* Weill Cornell Medical Center

| Defunct|

* James Ewing Hospital
* Madison Avenue Hospital
* Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
* Trafalgar Hospital

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Transportation

| Subway stations|

* Fifth Avenue/59th Street
* Lexington Avenue/59th Street
* Lexington Avenue/63rd Street
* Lexington Avenue/68th Street
* Lexington Avenue/77th Street
* Lexington Avenue/86th Street
* Lexington Avenue/96th Street
* Second Avenue/72nd Street
* Second Avenue/86th Street
* Second Avenue/96th Street

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Streets|

* 66th Street
* 72nd Street
* 74th Street
* 79th Street
* 85th Street
* 86th Street
* 89th Street
* 93rd Street
* 95th Street
* 96th Street
* FDR Drive
* East End Avenue
* York Avenue
* First Avenue
* Second Avenue
* Third Avenue
* Lexington Avenue
* Park Avenue
* Madison Avenue
* Fifth Avenue

Other

* 107th Infantry Memorial
* Richard Morris Hunt Memorial

Related topics

* East 73rd Street Historic District
* Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District
* Treadwell Farm Historic District
* Upper East Side Historic District

See also: Manhattan Community Board 8
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