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Timeless Trophy: 740 Park Avenue | 6sqft 6sqft.com/timeless-troph…

There are currently two available residential listings at the building. Unit 6/7A is listed for a whopping $44 million. Jackie O’s childhood home, it is a 14-room, four-bedroom duplex. On the market for $29.5 million, apartment 23D is a 16-room, five bedroom duplex that was

recently renovated by acclaimed architect Alan Wanzenberg.

Such big-earning residents include Stephen Schwarzman, founder of the Blackstone Group, who purchased Rockefeller’s former apartment; disgraced former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain; and Israel “Izzy” Englander, the founder of hedge fund firm Millennium Management,

740 Park was nicknamed “the Standard Oil building” in its early days, as John D. Rockefeller (who owned a 20,000-square-foot, 37-room apartment) Mildred Bedford Vanderbilt, and several other oil-rich owners called the residence home.

ny.curbed.com/2014/7/15/1007… The building was constructed in 1929 by James T. Lee, the grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – Onassis lived there as a child – and was designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon; Harmon became a partner of the newly named Shreve, Lamb

and Harmon during the year of construction. The building was officially opened in October 1930, a year after the Great Depression began, and the poor timing was devastating. Even though the New York elite had moved in, the building had failed financially by 1933.

But in 1913, a bitter strike in the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, part-owned by him, had provoked an attack by the National Guard, causing casualties. His action in visiting the miners and their families in person, to resolve their grievances, did much to present a

more humanized image of the Rockefellers, as well as marking a new departure in industrial relations generally.

Initially he had intended to go to Yale University but was encouraged by William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, among others, to enter the

Baptist-oriented Brown University instead. Nicknamed "Johnny Rock" by his roommates, he joined both the Glee and the Mandolin clubs, taught a Bible class, and was elected junior class president. Scrupulously careful with money, he stood out as different from other rich men's sons

After graduation from Brown, Rockefeller joined his father's business in October 1897, setting up operations in the newly formed family office at 26 Broadway where he became a director of Standard Oil. He later also became a director at J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company, which

had been formed in 1901. Junior resigned from both companies in 1910 in an attempt to "purify" his ongoing philanthropy from commercial and financial interests after the Hearst media empire unearthed a bribery scandal involving John Dustin Archbold (the successor to Senior as

head of Standard Oil) and two prominent members of Congress. Many critics blamed Rockefeller for ordering the massacre.[5] Margaret Sanger wrote an attack piece in her magazine The Woman Rebel, declaring, "But remember Ludlow! Remember the men and women and children who were

sacrificed in order that John D. Rockefeller Jr., might continue his noble career of charity and philanthropy as a supporter of the Christian faith."He was at the time being advised by William Lyon Mackenzie King and the pioneer public relations expert, Ivy Lee. Lee warned that

the Rockefellers were losing public support and developed a strategy that Junior followed to repair it. During the Great Depression, he was involved in the financing, development, and construction of the Rockefeller Center, a vast office complex in midtown Manhattan, and as a

result became one of the largest real estate holders in New York City. He was influential in attracting leading blue-chip corporations as tenants in the complex, including GE and its then affiliates RCA, NBC and RKO, as well as Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil),

Associated Press, Time Inc, and branches of Chase National Bank (now JP Morgan Chase). The family office, of which he was in charge, shifted from 26 Broadway to the 56th floor of the landmark 30 Rockefeller Plaza upon its completion in 1933. The office formally became "

Rockefeller Family and Associates" (and informally, "Room 5600"). Through negotiations by his son Nelson, in 1946 he bought for $8.5 million - from the major New York real estate developer William Zeckendorf - the land along the East River in Manhattan which he later donated for

the United Nations headquarters. This was after he had vetoed the family estate at Pocantico as a prospective site for the headquarters (see Kykuit).[26] Another UN connection was his early financial support for its predecessor, the League of Nations; this included a gift to

endow a major library for the League in Geneva which today still remains a resource for the UN.

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He is co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike. In August 2011, as vice president of threat research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors,

businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.[1] Alperovitch is a naturalized American citizen born in Russia who came to the United States in 1994 with his family.

He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank and was named in

December 2013 as one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers, along with Angela Merkel, John Kerry, Ben Bernanke, and Jeff Bezos.[20]
In February 2020, Alperovitch left CrowdStrike to launch a nonprofit focused on cybersecurity in a geopolitical context.