Rocky’s final gift

In death, as in life, David Rockefeller was the ultimate New Yorker, and for the last two weeks at Christie’s — in, fittingly, Rockefeller Center — a lifetime of his possessions were on display to be put up for auction. But this wasn’t any auction. This was for a man who, when he died last year at 101, was the last of the five Rockefeller brothers, son of the man who built Rockefeller Center and grandson of the founder of Standard Oil, the richest man who ever was (sorry, Jeff Bezos).

All three floor of Christie’s became a Rockefeller museum as 30,000 New Yorkers came free to view the fabulous treasures of Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Gauguin, O’Keeffe, Hopper and de Kooning and more. The porcelains, the silver, the china and the furniture came from Hudson Pines, his Westchester estate, his huge townhouse on E. 65th St., his upstate farm Four Winds and his summer home on Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

When the final hammer came down Friday, the total sale was $832,573,469. And, appropriately for a Rockefeller, every cent went to charities, a dozen of them, such as the American Farmland Trust, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the Museum of Modern Art (founded by his mom) and Rockefeller University. Thank you, David.