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Henry Falk is an enigma. The New York entrepreneur and builder doesn't appear in the pages of any of the Who's Who publications of his day. His background isn't clear, nor is his date of arrival in Toronto. But his big ambitions garnered him plenty of press in the city's late-1920s building boom, when a spate of skyscrapers—including the Royal York, Sterling Tower, the Toronto Star Building, the Canada Permanent Trust Building, and Falk's own Central Building—rapidly transformed the skyline.