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Book The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf

Download or read book The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf written by William Zeckendorf and published by Plaza Press (IL). This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Developing

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  • Author : William Zeckendorf (Jr)
  • Publisher : Andrea Monfried Editions LLC
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780991026357
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Developing written by William Zeckendorf (Jr) and published by Andrea Monfried Editions LLC. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a glimpse inside the high-stakes world of real estate development, from finding a property to securing financing to hiring an architect to constructing the building to seeing it profitably occupied, this is a history of New York in the 1970s and 1980s, from one of the people most responsible for its changing cityscape. In 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. Manhattan's most active real-estate developer, a judgement borne out by Zeckendorf's fascinating memoir. The second generation of a legendary family of developers, Bill Zeckendorf was a developer with a social conscience, not only putting up buildings but opening neglected parts of the city and transforming whole communities. Among the projects Zeckendorf chronicles in detail - and with rich documentary illustrations - are the Columbia, which set off a building boom on the Upper West Side; the four-acre Worldwide Plaza, a landmark in West Midtown; Queens West, the first residential project on the waterfront in Queens; the enormous Ronald Reagan Office Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.; and numerous projects in Santa Fe, his beloved second home.

Book Zeckendorf v  Cott  259 MICH 561  1932

Download or read book Zeckendorf v Cott 259 MICH 561 1932 written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 111

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1965-02-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-02-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book The Pacific Reporter

Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1965-02-12
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  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-02-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Zeckendorf

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  • Author : WILLIAM. ZECKENDORF
  • Publisher : Desert
  • Release : 2014-04-23
  • ISBN : 9781684116942
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Zeckendorf written by WILLIAM. ZECKENDORF and published by Desert. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since the days of the Louisiana Purchase has America seen any bigger real estate transactions than those executed by William Zeckendorf, the derring-do head of Webb & Knapp. Figuring with supersonic speed and an uncanny flair for making money, the flamboyant impresario bought and sold property, remodeled whole sections of New York, Denver, Washington, Montreal and Dallas, and moved the UN, the capital of the world, to New York. At the peak of his power, William Zeckendorf was a man with the Midas touch in an age of computers. From his windowless teakwood igloo office set in a white marble lobby, William Zeckendorf played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in the world - so large, in fact, that Wall Street tottered when he went bankrupt. And bankrupt he was, but never in spirit. An autobiography bursting with vitality, enthusiasm and financial know-how, Mr. Zeckendorf reveals himself as a visionary whose creativeness and sense of adventure are matched only by his unalloyed joy at being able to successfully juggle a dozen incredibly complicated transactions at once. The spectacular Mr. Zeckendorf, who has fished for piranhas in South America and sold ships to the Greeks at profit, comes to life in this autobiography. You will not want to miss meeting him.

Book Life at the Dakota

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  • Author : Stephen Birmingham
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-12-01
  • ISBN : 1504026314
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Life at the Dakota written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of “Our Crowd”. When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota” for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation’s western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German Renaissance–style castle, with its intricate façade, peculiar interior design, and gargoyle guardians peering down on Central Park, was an immediate hit, particularly among the city’s well-heeled intellectuals and artists. Over the next century it would become home to an eclectic cast of celebrity residents—including Boris Karloff, Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, singer Roberta Flack (the Dakota’s first African-American resident), and John Lennon and Yoko Ono—who were charmed by its labyrinthine interior and secret passageways, its mysterious past, and its ghosts. Stephen Birmingham, author of the New York society classic “Our Crowd”, has written an engrossing history of the first hundred years of one of the most storied residential addresses in Manhattan and the legendary lives lived within its walls.

Book House of Outrageous Fortune

Download or read book House of Outrageous Fortune written by Michael Gross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times). 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, penthouses that cost almost $100 million, and a tenant roster that’s a roll call of business page heroes and villains, Fifteen Central Park West is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. In this “stunning” (CNN) and “deliciously detailed” (Booklist, starred review) New York Times bestseller, journalist Michael Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that’s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross “takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust” (Sam Roberts, The New York Times), whichincludes Denzel Washington, Sting, Norman Lear, top executives, and Russian and Chinese oligarchs, to name a few. And he recounts the legendary building’s inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood. More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York’s rich and famous—and is a bellwether of the city’s changing social and financial landscape.

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1965-02-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-02-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Developing Expertise

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  • Author : Sara Stevens
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300209932
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Developing Expertise written by Sara Stevens and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustration Credits

Book City in the Sky

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  • Author : James Glanz
  • Publisher : Times Books
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 1466863072
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book City in the Sky written by James Glanz and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fall More than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, has ever produced--magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. Their builders were possessed of a singular determination to create wonders of capitalism as well as engineering, refusing to admit defeat before natural forces, economics, or politics. No one knows the history of the towers better than New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton. In a vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, the authors re-create David Rockefeller's ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan, the spirited opposition of local storeowners and powerful politicians, the bold structural innovations that later determined who lived and died, master builder Guy Tozzoli's last desperate view of the towers on September 11, and the charged and chaotic recovery that could have unraveled the secrets of the buildings' collapse but instead has left some enduring mysteries. City in the Sky is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Release : 1968-09-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf

Download or read book The Autobiography of William Zeckendorf written by William Zeckendorf and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1946-10-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-10-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Marker v  A L  Zeckendorf Co   226 MICH 191  1924

Download or read book Marker v A L Zeckendorf Co 226 MICH 191 1924 written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 108

Book Pioneer Jews

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  • Author : Harriet Rochlin
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780618001965
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Pioneer Jews written by Harriet Rochlin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.