Notable Residents
- Thelma Chrysler Foy – heiress to the Chrysler fortune
- David H. Koch – businessman, co-owner of Koch Industries, occupies an 18-room duplex on the fourth and fifth floors said to have been purchased in 2005 for $17 million.
- Jerzy Kosinski – novelist
- Ronald Lauder – businessman, son of Estée Lauder and brother of Leonard Lauder
- Howard Marks – chairman of Oaktree Capital Management
- J. Ezra Merkin – hedge fund manager, son of late businessman Hermann Merkin
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – childhood home
- Ronald Perelman – businessman
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. – businessman, lived from 1937 to 1960 in a 24-room, 12-bath duplex.
- Steve Ross – late CEO of Time Warner
- Stephen A. Schwarzman – CEO of the Blackstone Group (who bought it from Saul Steinberg for just over $35 million).
- Saul Steinberg – financier
- John Thain – last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch.
- Vera Wang – bridal gown designer who inherited a 10th and 11th floor duplex from her father, Cheng Ching Wang.
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