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stated "The book, which took Mr. Gross a year and a half to research and write, is meant to "trace the broad strokes of who is making the most money in the country at any point in the last 100 years," he said, "and who is using it in essence to show off, which is ultimately what apartments at 740
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wrote "Gross, a society reporter, sneaks the reader past the doorman. Inside, we find architect Rosario Candela's vast ballrooms, winding marble staircases and gold doorknobs. We meet past and present residents including
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in 1929 and on several generations of the superrich who have lived there since its construction on the peak of the
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Money and Manipulation: Documentary Takes On the Super-rich Residents of 740 Park
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added "Gross, it's fair to say, holds some billionaires in pretty low esteem".
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Rosner, Elizabeth; Daidone, Gina; Musumeci, Natalie (April 6, 2016).
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The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter
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Michael Gross
740 Park Avenue
Broadway Books
ISBN
978-0385512091
Michael Gross
Broadway Books
740 Park Avenue
Rosario Candela
Arthur Loomis Harmon
Great Depression
The New York Times
The Washington Post
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
The Daily Telegraph
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream
Alex Gibney
income inequality in the United States
Park Avenue
Upper East Side
South Bronx
The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter
"High-rise blaze at 'World's Richest Apartment Building'"
New York Post
"Peeking Behind the Gilded Walls of 740 Park Ave"
The New York Times
"A Window on a Gilded World"
The Washington Post
"Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, BBC Four, review"

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