Welcome! Wipe your feet! This is the family issue of The New York Observer.
We are a city of families, functional and dys-. Tolstoy would have been stumped here: The happy families bear no more resemblance to each other than the unhappy ones. We are the city of the Roosevelts, the Vanderbilts, the Tisches, the Read More
“Like New York itself, the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous,” wrote historian Lloyd Morris. “It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive gregarious life as publicly as possible.” Read More
“Like New York itself, the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous,” wrote historian Lloyd Morris. “It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive gregarious life as publicly as possible.” Read More
