House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the

House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

Americaâ‚¬s foremost chronicler of the .01 % and bestselling author of 740 Park reveals the social drama and absorbing business saga of Manhattanâ‚¬s record-setting address.

In real estateâ‚¬â€œobsessed New York, no new building has captured the cityâ‚¬s imaginationâ‚¬"or as many of its richest residentsâ‚¬"as Fifteen Central Park West.

In House of Outrageous Fortune, Americaâ‚¬s foremost chronicler of the upper crust, journalist and bestselling author Michael Gross, turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland thatâ‚¬s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross creates a dishy exposÂ© of todayâ‚¬s wealthiest and most famous. This colorful story recounts the recordsetting buildingâ‚¬s inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially dÂ©classÂ© Manhattan neighborhood.

With two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a lavish screening room, a private sixty-seat restaurant offering residents room service, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, and penthouses that cost almost $100 million, Fifteen is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. And any building thatâ‚¬s home to such unimaginable wealth and heavyweight egosâ‚¬"its cast of characters includes Denzel Washington, Sting, Alex Rodriguez, Norman Lear, NASCARâ‚¬s Jeff Gordon, hedge fund heads Daniel Loeb and Daniel Och, Russian and Chinese oligarchs, and top executives of Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, AIG, Disney, Google, and Yahoo!, among many moreâ‚¬"will be chock-full of jaw-dropping excess.

Gross won unprecedented access to the people behind this instantly legendary building, including the scions of the fabled Zeckendorf real estate dynasty; their financial backers, Goldman Sachs and Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer; and their â‚¬Å“starchitect,â‚¬Â Robert A. M. Stern. Then he drilled past its limestone faÂ§ade to ferret out the stories Fifteenâ‚¬s fathers and its residents donâ‚¬t want told.

More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New Yorkâ‚¬s rich and famousâ‚¬"and is a bellwether of the cityâ‚¬s changing social and financial landscape. With its dazzling detail, House of Outrageous Fortune is a sweeping history of those changes, and it pulls open wide the gilded walls of Fifteen to reveal the private lives of that .01 percent.
Country USA
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-03-11
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884794308913
EANs 9781451666199

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-03-11
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884794308913
EANs	9781451666199

House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

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