730 Park Avenue

730 Park Avenue
General information
Location 730 Park Avenue, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Completed 1929
Technical details
Floor count 19
Design and construction
Architect Lafayette A. Goldstone

730 Park Avenue is a historic residential building in Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, USA. A cooperative, the building has 38 apartments.[1]

History

The nineteen-story building was completed in 1929.[2] It is 68.58 metre high.[2] It was designed by architect Lafayette A. Goldstone.[2]

Past tenants included Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (the founder of Advance Publications) and his wife Mitzi, philanthropist Edward Warburg, John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.(who served as the United States Ambassador to Denmark from 1981 to 1983), and Lyman G. Bloomingdale (the co-founder of Bloomingdale's).[3]

References

  1. ↑ "730 Park Avenue". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "730 Park Avenue". Emporis. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Wise, Dorothy Kalins (May 20, 1968). "Appraising the Most Expensive Apartment Houses in the City". The New York Magazine. p. 26. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

Coordinates: 40°46′14″N 73°57′53″W / 40.77045°N 73.96472°W / 40.77045; -73.96472

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