http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1118 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1118#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:34:07 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1118 The luxury apartment building at 1155 Park Ave. was brand new in 1915. Among its first tenants was Maude King, a boozy, scatterbrained wealthy widow from Chicago. She rented three neighboring apartments on the tenth floor for $9,000 a year. Mrs. King lived in one, her sister lived]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1118/feed 0