The Astor, already home to lovely units (left and lower right) will have penthouses added to the mix (top right). Christian Harder / Binyan Studios The Astor, a landmarked Upper West Side condo ...

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 ...

Several half-assed renovations make it hard to picture now, but the Astor Room started life as the uber-glamorous Paramount Pictures commissary in the 1920s. As glossies on the wall attest, budding ...

The Astors were among America’s first multi-millionaires, so it makes sense that the Astor name immediately conjures up images of wealth and the Gilded Age of New York City. The family fortune was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Jacob Astor IV was one of the richest men in the world when he died on the Titanic. Here's a look at his life. When John ...

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 ...

Hotel Week Finding home and history at The Astor Hotel Despite being surrounded by the unfamiliar, I felt like I was cozily at home during my stay at The Astor Hotel - and that's a pretty impressive ...