Park Cinq

785 5th Avenue | also 784 5th Avenue, 786 5th Avenue, 2 East 60th Street | Upper East Side | built 1963

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 2007

    August 21

    Denise Rich's daughter buys a co-op downstairs from her mother's penthouse for $3.9 million

    In August 2007 the New York Observer reported that Daniella and Richard Kilstock, the daughter and son-in-law of songwriter Denise Rich, bought a two-bedroom co-op at 785 Fifth Avenue for $3.9 million, in the building where Rich lived in a penthouse. Rich had spent $1.065 million on a recording studio in the penthouse, which a report called New York's priciest private music space. Her 28-room apartment reportedly had a staff of 20.

    Source: Internet Archive

  2. 2010

    February 25

    David Geffen buys Robert Daly's 17th-floor co-op at the Park Cinq for $14.17 million

    The New York Times reported on February 25, 2010 that record and film producer David Geffen had bought a 17th-floor apartment at 785 Fifth Avenue, known as the Park Cinq, for $14.17 million. The seller was Robert A. Daly, who had chaired Warner Brothers Entertainment before leaving the studio in 1999. The roughly 5,000-square-foot co-op has sweeping Central Park views, and apparently no brokers were involved in the sale.

    Source: Internet Archive

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