640 Park Avenue was built in 1914, when $12,000 a month for a rental was a lot of money and one needed more rooms to house one's servants than family members. Residents included the scion of coal family who practiced flying his plane up and down the East River and once emergency-landed in Central Park, before dying in combat in Europe during WWI. The building is no longer a rental, of course. [NYT]
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