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2. FAO Schwarz - Wikipedia

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   1910 F.A.O Schwarz Advertisement. FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862 in Baltimore under the name "Toy Bazaar" by German immigrant Frederick August Otto Schwarz.. In 1870, Schwarz opened a New York City location known as the "Schwarz Toy Bazaar" at 765 Broadway, which moved to 42 E. 14th Street in Union Square in 1880 and operated at that location until April 28, 1897, when it took over two vacant ...

3. Walking Piano - Wikipedia

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   Walking Piano at FAO Schwarz, Fifth Avenue, New York City, 2004 The Walking Piano , also called the Big Piano by its creator, Remo Saraceni , is an oversized synthesizer . [ 1 ] Merging dance, music, and play, it is played by the user's feet tapping the keys to make music.

4. Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. - Wikipedia

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   Schwarz was born in New York City, the great-grandson of German-American Frederick August Otto Schwarz, the founder of the Fifth Avenue toy store, F.A.O. Schwarz. His family sold the majority interest in the toy store in 1963. [2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1957 and received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960. In 1960, he ...

5. List of companies based in New York City - Wikipedia

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   The Bank of New York Mellon: financial services Barnes & Noble: retail Barneys New York: retail Bergdorf Goodman: retail BGC Group: financial services BidKind: technology, online site BlackRock: financial services Blackstone Group: financial services Bloomberg: business services Bloomingdale's: retail Booker Software, Inc. business services ...

6. Frederick August Otto Schwarz - Wikipedia

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   In an effort to increase their exports, German exporters occasionally combined stationery with toys and other goods. Toys that Schwarz displayed in the window of the store outsold stationery. [8] By 1862 he had switched to selling the toys from his own shop, and in 1870 he moved his business to Manhattan in New York City. He married Caroline ...

7. Toy store - Wikipedia

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   The famous toy store in New York City, FAO Schwarz, was founded under the name Schwarz Toy Bazaar. It was founded in 1862 by the German immigrant, Frederick August Otto Schwarz . [ 3 ] The former largest toy retailer in the United States, Toys "R" Us, started business in 1948 by Charles Lazarus , a veteran of World War II. [ 4 ]