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Astor: the name still found on every New York block

Astor: the name still found on every New York block
New York’s Hotel Netherland, owned by William Waldorf Astor. (Image: Wikipedia)
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By Moira HodgsonIn 1981, when Anderson Cooper was 13, he joined his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, for lunch at Mortimer’s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. There, she introduced him to a “very small lady in a very big fur coat” who swept in and sat down at the next table. It was Brooke Astor, the doyenne of New York society. A major philanthropist, she had given tens of millions of dollars to the city’s charities, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. Looking at the “delica...

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