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This month in real estate history: 740 Park unveiled, “father” of zoning dies … & more

From left: 740 Park Avenue, Edward Murray Bassett and 378 West End
From left: 740 Park Avenue, Edward Murray Bassett and 378 West End

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From the October issue: One of the Upper East Side’s most exclusive co-ops, 740 Park Avenue, was completed 86 years ago this month. Edward Murray Bassett, a lawyer and former Congressman known as the “father” of American zoning, died 68 years ago this month. The city ruled 53 years ago this month that a group of 18 Manhattan buildings should be brought back under rent control after concluding that landlords were operating the buildings as rooming houses rather than hotels. [more]

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