The Beresford Bill Ackman, reporter John Stossel, musician Laura Nyro, film producer David Brown, editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine Helen Gurley Brown, and film director Mike Nichols. The Beresford The Beresford, at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, is a luxury, 23-floor "pre-war" apartment building in New York City. Designed by the architect Emery Roth, The Beresford, completed in 1929, is one of the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan and one of the city's most elite co-ops running along Central Park West. In recent years, apartments have sold for between $3 million and $22 million. One unit is currently listed
Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown (May 16, 1915 - January 25, 2011), also known as Auntie Helen, was a Filipino-American teacher and librarian, and the founder of the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library. She was born in Manila to a Filipino mother and an Anglo father, and moved to America after her graduation from Manila Central High School. She then studied at Pasadena Junior College, and later earned a master's degree from University of California, Los Angeles. Subsequently she became a teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She opened the Pilipino American Reading Room