“As rich as his subjects,” says Forbes FYI
“Real-estate spectators, clear space on your night table: Journalist Michael Gross has opened a peephole to one of Manhattan’s most impenetrable prewar apartment buildings,” writes Taylor Antrim in Forbes FYI. “740 has sheltered dour Mayflower grandees and swashbuckling Wall Street arrivistes; Gross’s thick history gives accounts of them all, tracking along the way the shifting […]
Divorce! Death! Securities Fraud!
Galleycat, mediabistro.com’s book blog, reports on the very latest goings-on at 740 Park Avenue — divorce! undivorce! death! alleged securities fraud! — and asks for a sequel. Wait for the paperback, why don’tcha?? — “Interesting Elevator Conversations, I’m Sure,” mediabistro: Galleycat, Noember 29, 2005 UPDATE: On December 1, Israel Englander of 740 Park settled a […]
“The cocktail-conversation book of the year,” says Palm Beach’s Shiny Sheet
“The New York-and-Palm Beach crowd — which is no small crowd, numerically or economically — can thank Hurricane Wilma for at least one thing. The storm delayed the social season long enough for them (and us) to cozy up with 740 Park Avenue: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building, the cocktail-conversation book of […]
“A window on a gilded world” — The Washington Post
The Washington Post says 740 Park reveals “75 years of American wealth as seen through the prism of this 19-story New York City cooperative that has blackballed unwanted neighbors including Barbra Streisand. Gross… sneaks the reader past the doorman.” (November 12, 2005)
“Delicious society gossip,” says Canada’s National Post
“Members of New York’s social register, politicians, movie stars and the notorious are integral to these lascivious and even tragic stories, ones that render many tabloid articles tame by comparison.” — “The wealthiest apartment building,” by Waheeda Harris, National Post, November 24, 2005
740 Park in its Fifth Printing
Less than four weeks after publication, the Broadway Books division of Random House announced last week that it had gone back to press for a fifth printing of 740 Park. A non-fiction bestseller from Palm Beach, Florida, to Billings, Montana, it’s in the top 40 on the American Booksellers Association’s Booksense non-fiction bestseller list, the […]
Michael Gross is “the newfound chronicler of the gilded echelons of American society ,” says Italy’s Corriere Della Sera
“With flair a la Stephen Birminghan, the genre leader, Gross succeeds in taming habitually media-weary faces and names… Cementing Mr. Gross’s newfound status as the chronicler of the gilded echelons of American society was the parterre de roi that turned out at Georgette’s Mosbacher book launch party — with ten 740 tenants, brokerissima Alice Mason […]
“The Marx Brothers Meet Fatal Attraction”
Click to hear Brian Lehrer’s interview with Michael Gross on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show.
Forecast for Social Siberia: A Warming Trend
Though one rancorous (and anonymous) resident of 740 Park Avenue planted an item with Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove seeking to scare guests away from Georgette Mosbacher’s publication party for 740 Park, and condemning those who did come to “social Siberia,” many residents of the building were delighted to attend, as were top realtors […]
“A Great Gift,” says Town & Country
“Of all the recherche residences in Manhattan, there may be none more exclusive than 740 Park,” says Town & Country. “Writer Michael Gross takes an in-depth look at the vaunted history of the address that Rockefellers, Bouviers, Chryslers and today’s titans have called their own.” — “On the Town: Keys to the City,” Town & […]