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Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of businessman John Shaffer Phipps (1874–1958), an heir to the Phipps family fortune, in Nassau County, New York. Located at 71 Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury, the property was converted into a museum home in 1959. It is open for tours from April through October.
In 1911, Henry Phipps Jr., a co-founder of Carnegie Steel, formed Bessemer Trust in New York to manage his family's assets. [3] [4] In 1911, he spun out Bessemer Securities as a separate entity which had $20 million assets under management which invested in venture capital deals, publicly traded securities and real estate.
The current Chairman of the Board of Directors is the great-grandson of Henry Phipps, Stuart S. Janney III, [9] who succeeded Ogden Mills Phipps in 1994. [10] In 2018, Bessemer Trust leased the top seven floors at 1271 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, relocating from 630 Fifth Avenue in 2021. [11]
Laws of the State of New York are the session laws of the New York State Legislature published as an annual periodical, i.e., "chapter laws", bills that become law (bearing the governor's signature or just certifications of passage) which have been assigned a chapter number in the office of the legislative secretary to the governor, and printed in chronological order (by chapter number).
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Phipps was an advocate for decent housing for the poor. In 1905 he funded the non-profit Phipps Houses to build affordable housing in New York City. [26] [27] He gave $1,000,000 (equivalent to $33,911,000 in 2023) to build tenement houses for "working people." [28] Phipps Houses still operates to this day. Henry Phipps's great-grandson, Stuart ...