https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:12:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1118 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:34:07 +0000 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]]>