During the court contest last year about the guardianship of Brooke Astor, an unsettling, though charitable, thought loomed over the proceedings: In her diminished mental and physical state, with ...

The author of a well-known biography of legendary socialite Brooke Astor called out CNN host Anderson Cooper for relying too heavily on her work in his own forthcoming book on the heiress and her ...

Brooke Astor, the widow of a prominent New York multimillionaire, would become not only the grande dame of New York society, but a hands-on philanthropist who worked hard to change the world — well ...

The Gilded Age might be fiction, but that doesn’t mean that the HBO series about the war between New York’s old-money families and the nouveau riche doesn’t have some basis in reality. The series ...

A young person who’s just moved to New York can hardly ignore the name Astor. It spans only one block, but Astor Place is frequently invoked by 23-year-olds, as it connects Broadway to St. Marks Place ...