Michael Gross – House of Outrageous Fortune

In real estate–obsessed New York, no new building has captured the city’s imagination like Fifteen Central Park West.

In. The House of Outrageous Fortune. Michael Gross, America’s foremost chronicler of the upper crust, journalist and bestselling author, turns his attention to the new-money paradise that has sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. A dishy exposé of today’s wealthiest and most famous is created by Gross. This colorful story tells the story of the recordsetting building and its impact on the Manhattan neighborhood.

Fifteen has two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a private sixty-seat restaurant, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, and penthouses that cost almost $100 million. The cast of characters at the building include Sting, Alex Rodriguez, Jeff Gordon, Daniel Och, Russian and Chinese billionaires, and top executives of Citibank.

The scions of the fabled Zeckendorf real estate dynasty, their financial backers, and their starchitect, Robert A. M. Stern, were all granted unprecedented access to the people behind this instantly legendary building. He drilled past the limestone faade to find out the stories the residents don’t want told.

A bellwether of the city’s changing social and financial landscape, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York’s rich and famous. With its brilliance. The House of Outrageous Fortune. The private lives of that.01 percent are revealed in the history of those changes.

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