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The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-story [1] apartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. [4] The building is 560 ft (170.7 m) high and was the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it opened.
The Morrises forfeited their Harlem Heights estate, [95] [96] which was advertised for sale in the New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury in 1783. [97] Following its confiscation, Mount Morris was occupied by several different tenants. [40] The house was recorded as having been sold in July 1784 to John Berrian and Isaac Ledyard for 2,250 New York ...
The homestead, which during the 19th century was referred to as the "Teller House", is now named for Catheryna Rombout Brett, who was the first to develop the patent by selling property. After the death of Catheryna's mother, the couple mortgaged the manor house in New York and moved to the wilderness of southern Dutchess County. [4]
Theodore Roosevelt – U.S. president, represented Upper East Side in New York State Assembly at beginning of his political career. Elihu Root – former Secretary of State [191] Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector; Steve Ross – CEO of Time Warner [180] James Rorimer – museum director [192] Aby Rosen – real estate ...
Villa Lewaro, also known as the Madam C.J. Walker estate [3], is a 34-room 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) [4] [5] mansion located at Fargo Lane and North Broadway in Irvington, New York, 30 miles north of New York City. Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker commissioned architect Vertner Tandy to build Villa Lewaro from 1916 to 1918.
The Isaac L. Rice Mansion is at 346 West 89th Street, at the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and 89th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [3] [4] The house occupies an irregular plot with frontage of 148 feet (45 m) wide on 89th Street to the north and 116 feet (35 m) on Riverside Drive to the west; the plot extends 100 feet (30 m) back from 89th Street.
Kristin M. Davis, previously known as the Manhattan Madam, is a former madam who was known for running a high-end prostitution ring in New York City which claimed to have offered its services to several high-profile clients, including Eliot Spitzer, Alex Rodriguez and David Beckham.
10 Gracie Square (sometimes spelled out as Ten Gracie Square) is a 1930–31 pre-war "white glove" co-op building constructed in Art Deco style. [1] It's located on East 84th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side between East End Avenue and the FDR Drive.