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Kykuit (/ ˈ k aɪ k ə t / KY-kət), [3] [4] known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefeller family patriarch John D. Rockefeller.
The merchant Archibald Gracie, at the time one of New York City's richest men, [24] bought Walton's land in two phases in December 1798 and January 1799. [25] [20] At the time, the Gracies' city residence was a house that they rented from New York City mayor Richard Varick.
The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1979 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house was listed for sale by Christie’s Real Estate in April 2022 for $33 million. [3] The owner at the time was Bassam Alghanim, the Kuwaiti billionaire co-owner of the Alghanim Industries conglomerate. [4]
A 2005 image of 40 Wall Street, one of four Manhattan buildings purchased by the Marcoses in the early 1980s. The overseas landholdings of the Marcos family, which the Philippine government [1] [2] and the United Nations System's Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative [3] consider part of the $5 billion to $13 billion "ill-gotten wealth" of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, are said to be distributed ...
Carnegie lived in his New York City mansion until his death in 1919, and Louise continued to live there until her own death in 1946. In the early 1920s, the mansion was connected with 9 East 90th Street, where Margaret lived from 1920 to 1948. Following a renovation, the Columbia University School of Social Work occupied the house from 1949 to ...
Firehouse, Hook & Ladder Company 8 is a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, located at 14 North Moore Street at its intersection with Varick Street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Its exterior has become famous for its appearance in the supernatural comedy franchise Ghostbusters.
The William K. Vanderbilt House, also known as the Petit Chateau, was a Châteauesque mansion at 660 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street.
In the 2024 presidential election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris carried New York City's Borough of Manhattan by 81% and the city itself by 68%, but Knickerbocker Village handed Donald Trump a 16 vote margin victory out of roughly 500 votes cast. The difference was 251 for Trump and 235 for Harris, which resulted in Trump's only precinct ...