550 Park Avenue
550 Park Avenue is a luxury apartment building on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, United States.
550 Park Avenue was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter. The 17-floor building was completed on December 11, 1917 and converted to a cooperative in 1952 with only 32 apartments. It sits next to the Browning School.
Notable residents
Notable residents have included:- August Belmont Jr., financier
- James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr., architect of the building
- Barbara Goldsmith, author, journalist, and philanthropist
- Hulda Lashanska, soprano singer
- Samuel D. Leidesdorf, accountant
- Jesse Livermore, stock market operator known as the "Boy Plunger of Wall Street"
- Kathryn Bache Miller, philanthropist
- Diana Vreeland, fashion columnist and editor