720 Park Avenue, Neoclassical apartment building in Lenox Hill, Manhattan, United States.

720 Park Avenue is a 17-story residential building on the Upper East Side featuring symmetrical proportions, tall columns, and intricately carved limestone cornices across its exterior. The complex contains 34 apartments of varying sizes, a gymnasium, storage facilities, and offers round-the-clock doorman service for residents.

Completed in 1928, the 17-story building was designed by Cross & Cross with Rosario Candela in the Neoclassical style and rises 62.18 meters. In the 1930s Jesse I. Straus, co-owner of Macy's and US ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936, lived in a duplex here. In 2008 Carl Spielvogel sold his apartment to Peter S. Kraus for US$37 million.

Residents have included Jesse I. Straus, co-owner of Macy's and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936, who kept a duplex here in the 1930s. Diplomat Carl Spielvogel, ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2000 to 2001, sold his apartment in 2008 to Peter S. Kraus, chairman and CEO of AllianceBernstein, for US$37 million. Billionaire Robert Ziff also owns an apartment.

The building sits in an established residential neighborhood with good access to public transportation and nearby shopping. Keep in mind that this is a private residential building viewable from the street, though interior access is not available to the general public.

In 2008 diplomat Carl Spielvogel, US ambassador to Slovakia from 2000 to 2001, sold his apartment here to Peter S. Kraus, chairman and CEO of AllianceBernstein, for US$37 million. Five years later another apartment was listed at US$25 million.