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New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age ...
Become a paid member to listen to this article. May 10th marks the 175th anniversary of the Astor Place Opera House Riot, one of the most deadly riots in New York City history. The Astor Place ...
Oct. 9, 2009— -- In New York City, Brooke Astor, was an icon, the epitome of high society and a respected philanthropist.Inheriting her husband's $120 million fortune, she was called by some ...
Astor's appetite for New York real estate appears to have had no limits. On his deathbed in 1848, he is said to have exclaimed, "Could I begin life again, knowing what I now know, and had money to ...
Brooke Astor was the immaculately dressed grande dame of New York City, a philanthropist, taste-setter and host extraordinaire, at ease with kings and queens and world leaders.
Brooke Astor, the civic leader, philanthropist and fixture of New York high society who gave away nearly $200 million to support the city’s great cultural institutions and a host of humbler projects, ...
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, known as “The Mrs. Astor,” reigned supreme in New York society to the extent that her annual social schedule was broadly publicized.
Working-class New Yorkers were encouraged to come and protest at the Astor Place Opera House a few days after the doubleheader. 10,000 people filled the streets around the opera house, none of ...
When the Fun Gallery opened in 1981, it was the first art gallery in Manhattan’s East Village, exposing New York to the talents of street and graffiti artists. Co-founded by Patti Astor, the ...
Great riot at the Astor Place opera house, New York on Thursday evening May 10th, 1849 Digital Public Library of America When Major-General Charles Sandford recalled the scene at the Astor Place ...
The New York Public Library is beginning construction on a new study and research room that will house 1,800 books and three portraits that philanthropist Brooke Astor willed to the library after ...