John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and through buying and selling New York real estate. After the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, he immigrated to New York and took a job ...

The story of the Astor family is one of immense fortune, ambition, tragedy, and scandal. It all began with John Jacob Astor, an immigrant from modern-day Germany who arrived in the United States ...

The landmarked nature of a property that was going to also be part hotel presented attorneys with a maze of challenges.

Mountain Top Road in Bernardsville doesn’t solely get you a piece of luxury property, but also a dose of history.

There are 87 million dollars in his net worth. In our day, Astor's fortune is worth $2 billion, making him among the richest men in New York City, and by far the richest man on board. He made his ...

Walk in the footsteps of the Astors, Vanderbilts and other elite New Yorkers who lived during the Gilded Age on this new ...

Curiosity was at the heart of who Will Astor was — about an ant pushing a crumb, a word in the Spelling Bee or the inner workings of a news story.