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Summary: When Does This End?
Comment: I lived in NY from 1989-1994, worked around the corner at Ralph Lauren and have always had a strong
interest in architecture and New York history. I bought this book with enthusiasm.

I
couldn't believe how much information is packed into it. There are over 500 pages! About page 20, I
began to get lost. I simply couldn't read it. It is packed with so much minutae and tedious history
of each and every tenant that it became absurd.

Here is what (my version) of his
writing is. Imagine 500 pages of:

"Lucretia Davis was the widow of Malcom Dodge Davis,
the same Dodges who came over on the Mayflower and began to buy up land outside of Dodgeville, MS.
The old Mississippi Dodges met the Fish family when wintering in Jekyll Island and they began a
friendship that cultimated in Betsy Fish's marriage to Dennis Davis and the birth of their daughter
Emily Davis in 1911. In that year, the entire Davis clan, and the Fish family formed a corporation,
known as Dodge Fish which eventually became the F. Dodge Fish Financial Bank. This bank began
serving customers on July 21, 1921 but not before a terrible fire at 5 Wall Street which began on
the night of July 20, 1921 and severely burned Mrs. Fish Davis so that she was forced to recuperate
in Oyster Bay, NY where she met her next husband Dr. Leonard Foxhound Koop."

This book
should not be read in bed or on a full stomach.

Customer Rating:

Summary: 740 PARK
Comment: This book is the very definition of over rated..how on earth do you have a book like this and no
images of these supposed fantastic apartments, I suggest a book on the architects of this building,
Rosario Candela and James Carpenter, now that will show you the famous Rockefeller apartment, and
fyi, it's a fantastic book, this book on the other hand is inane dribble...what a bore.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Amazing
Comment: One of the most fascinating and classy books I have ever read so far. Read it, you won't regret it.

Customer Rating:

Summary: I Just Couldn't Make It Through
Comment: I suppose I was expecting something differant...more of a focus on the apartments. It just dragged
on and on. I really was not interested in the individual investments of people (no matter how
famous). Photos would have been nice. I was expecting a history not an book on economics and
investments.

Customer Rating:

Summary: More photos would have made it more interesting
Comment: Like the other reviewers here, I too found some passages tedious and repetitive. Seemed like the
author just didn't get his teeth into the book....kind of like he just "whetted" the appetite.
Since I purchased this on this website, I was hoping to see lots of photos but that's not the case.
That was disappointing. It was still an interesting read about people who have too much money and
sometimes, too much time on their hands. Does anyone need a 76 room 3 story apartment where only 2
people live?

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