Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As HBOs 'The Gilded Age' streams a fictional version of opulence, a rare crop of 19th-century palaces is changing hands for ...
New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age ...
Yes, some memorable mansions were lost to the vagaries of expenses and development, but many remain — and some are even open to the public. A walking guide. By Sarah Lyall See more of our coverage in ...
When Cornelius Vanderbilt II (grandson of the OG Vanderbilt) unveiled his mansion at 1 West 57th Street in 1883, it was no small to-do. At the time—and still on record, though the home was demolished ...
But one evening altered the course of his future. “I went to a party at somebody’s townhouse,” Rackson, 66, told The Post. “And I was, like, ‘That’s the best of all worlds. This is a house like I grew ...
An exterior of 349 W. 86th St. Celeste Godoy Photography for Douglas Elliman By the late 1990s, Randall Rackson had already done the apartment thing. He'd lived on Central Park West, in rooms stacked ...