Forty Years on Fifth: David Murdock's New York Foothold Comes to Market at $15 Million

For more than four decades, David Murdock's home in New York was a maisonette on Fifth Avenue, and it is now for sale at $15 million. Floridians understand this kind of arrangement. Palm Beach keeps its winters, Naples keeps its sunsets, Miami keeps its own hours, and a good many of the people who move among them also keep a door somewhere north. Keeping the same one for forty years is less common. That is not a weekend address or a place to sleep between meetings. It is a lasting part of a life, chosen once and kept for good. A maisonette is also its own kind of New York residence, closer in feel to a house than to an apartment in the sky, and it sits on the avenue that most of the country pictures when it pictures Manhattan. For readers who spend part of the year on the Atlantic and part on the Gulf, the price will register. So will the patience behind those forty years in one place.

With reporting from Robb Report.