This is a highly specific question but I wondered if an answer may be forthcoming from anyone knowledgeable of modern Mathematical history.
In the book Maths: Form & Function Saunders Mac Lane mentions the address in the title but with no other useful context: "... it has been claimed that the one motion of modern Mathematics familiar to the man in the street is the idea of coordinates: The tenth floor at 329 West 15th Street."
It may just be a random invented address, but I wondered if it may have some biographical relevance?
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