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The Provident Loan Society of New York is a not-for-profit organization headquartered at 346 Park Avenue South on the corner of 25th Street in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was created in the 19th century by a group of influential New Yorkers as an alternative to the loan sharks of the day.
Express Gold Cash offers competitive rates, paying as much as 90% of the gold bullion value and up to 85% of refined jewelry value, dependent on the current market price.
The Diamond District at 47th Street and Fifth Avenue. The Diamond District is a commercial stretch between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Midtown Manhattan.Until the 1920s, New York's diamond epicenter was Maiden Lane, four blocks north of Wall Street. [4]
The annual "E. Virgil Conway College Scholarships" are awarded to the sons and daughters of New York City employees every year. They are named after E. Virgil Conway, who conceived of the scholarship program in 1971. More than $1,600,000 has been granted since the awards program's inception.
Mondschein added wedding dresses and Georgian, Victorian, and Art Deco jewelry to the inventory. In the 1970s, he moved the store to the Upper East Side, and in 1986 legally changed his name to Fred Leighton. [1] Leighton began lending jewelry to celebrities in 1996 when client Miuccia Prada [2] borrowed a necklace for Nicole Kidman to wear to ...
A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
1912: The C.T. Cook residence on Fifth Avenue and 48th Street was converted into the new home of Black, Starr & Frost. Not until the 1920s did other jewelers and diamond dealers join Black, Starr & Frost in this part of the city, which is recognized today as New York City's “Diamond District.”
Provident brought together its two popular Palm Beach businesses to create a new "Dream Factory" on Worth Avenue.