Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and New York real estate. John Jacob Astor III and William Backhouse Astor ...

William Astor, who co-founded kids TV juggernaut Silvergate Media, has stepped down as the company’s chair. Silvergate, which was acquired by Sony Pictures Television in 2019, quietly re-branded as ...

On July 12, 1892, the New York Times ran a headline proclaiming the death of William Waldorf Astor, who, according to the account, had died unexpectedly in London. This “ideal American,” the newspaper ...

“Good Lord, what’s happened to the picture?” wondered Lord William Waldorf Astor when he saw the empty wall space in Brooke Astor’s red-lacquered library, where her cherished Childe Hassam painting ...

The Gilded Age might be fiction, but that doesn’t mean that the HBO series about the war between New York’s old-money families and the nouveau riche doesn’t have some basis in reality. The series ...

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