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Brooke Astor was linked, by marriage, to a great swath of the history of New York money and social life.(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Brooke Astor was linked, by marriage, to a great swath of the history of New York money and social life. John Jacob Astor, fur trader and real-estate sharpie, is memorialized in a subway stop and the Astor Library (ancestor of the New York Public Library). The Four Hundred, an antique designation of the creme de la creme, were originally those who could fit in a 19th-century Mrs. Astor's ballroom. Our Mrs. Astor spent the second half of a centenarian's ...
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