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11 unusual facts about Park Avenue


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In what has been called the band's finest hour, drunken customers in a Park Avenue club heckled them so brutally that Ralph Schuckett, the usually gentle organist, hurled a few choice words back at them.

Colonial Airlines

By 1956, Colonial's executive offices were on Park Avenue in New York City and it was flying several routes including five daily nonstop DC-4 flights between LGA and Montreal.

Grigore Gafencu

He participated at the founding of the Free Europe Committee and he organized each Tuesday evening in his apartment on Park Avenue, New York City a series of meetings called Tuesday Panels in which current events were discussed.

Henri Willis Bendel

Henri Bendel died suddenly on March 22, 1936, at his home at 399 Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle

On 23 March 1931, the Earl of Lincoln married Jean Gimbernat (died 1968), the former wife of a Mr Gimbernat and daughter of David Banks of Park Avenue, New York City.

Joshua Clay

As Carmichael, using funds borrowed from a local loan shark, he purchases a small Park Avenue medical practice and lives a quiet, respectable life treating rich hypochondriacs.

Jules Brulatour

Giving up acting and singing by the early-1940s, Hope devoted herself to the high-life –– entertaining lavishly, dressing extravagantly and delighting in being dubbed "Duchess of Park Avenue" in the society columns.

Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital

Park Avenue and 41st Street and was completed and opened on October 3, 1881.

Scent-imental Over You

A small Mexican hairless dog, wanting to be friends with the other dogs on Park Avenue, decides to borrow a fur coat and enter the dog show.

Simon Gillis

Gillis was practicing with a 16 pound hammer in a vacant lot on Park Avenue between 134th and 135th street on September 30, 1904, and "just as he had let the 16 pound hammer go for an extra long throw, Christian Koehler, a fourteen-year old boy, climbed the fence in pursuit of a baseball. Gillis and several boys shouted a warning, but Koehler did not hear. The hammer struck him in the head and he was instantly killed."

The Bedford Diaries

She now struggles with being stereotyped as “the jumper.” Natalie’s ex-boyfriend, Richard Thorne, a former Park Avenue bad boy who turned his life around after Natalie’s jump, is also a member of the class.


Ely Jacques Kahn

As part of her research for her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand spent a half year in 1937 as an unsalaried assistant to Kahn in his offices in his 2 Park Avenue building, where he mentored her on the profession of architecture.

Hooterville

Green Acres (1965–71) was about a wealthy New York City couple, lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his diamond-clad wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), who give up their Park Avenue penthouse for a run-down farm, "The Old Haney Place".

Louis Rubenstein

There is a memorial water fountain dedicated to Rubenstein in Montreal at Fletcher's Field at the corner of Park Avenue and Mount Royal Avenues.

Renaud-Bray

The chain began its expansion in 1978, opening other branches in Montreal (on Laurier Avenue, Saint Denis Street, Park Avenue, and Peel Street).

Toni Blum

She lived at the time with her family on 91st or 92nd Street near Park Avenue in Manhattan.