Business & Finance: Rockefeller Apartments

Real-estate editors, the forgotten men of all newspapers, made the front pages of Manhattan dailies last week with news of the most notable lease of the year. It was taken by John Davison Rockefeller Jr., on an apartment at No. 740 Park Avenue. It meant the removal, next spring, of the Rockefeller home from the eight-story grey mansion on West 54th Street, reputedly the tallest private house in New York City when "Mr. Junior" built it next door to his father's home in 1912. In moving to the first apartment he has ever lived...

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