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Samuel Barber (1910–1981), composer. •
Huguette M. Clark (1906–2011), the reclusive heiress, owned all of the eighth floor and half of the 12th. •
William C. Durant (1861–1947), pioneer of the US automobile industry; co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet, founded Frigidaire. •
Richard Gilder (1932–2020), philanthropist •
Rudolph J. Heinemann, art dealer. •
Tali Farhadian Weinstein (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor •
J. Frederic Kernochan (1842–1929), attorney and socialite •
Herbert L. Pratt, a Standard Oil Company vice president, rented the largest apartment in the building, starting in 1916, at a rent of $30,000 a year, which occupied the entire top floor, with 25 rooms •
Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager and founder of
Saba Capital Management, bought Clark's twelfth floor apartment, 12W, for $25.5 million in 2012. ==References==