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Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.31.2009 | New York

Read More: New York, Muriel Siebert, The Dakota, Emily Post, Robert Moses, The Berkshire, Tennis, The East River Drive, River House, Town and Country Magazine, Vincent Astor, The Osborne, Debutante, Rockefeller, Bridge, William De Rham, Jewish, Vanderbilt, One Sutton Place South, Discrimination, Whitney, The River Club, E. T. Williams, Wasp, Augusta Owen Patterson, Co-Op Board Bias, 10 Gracie Square, African Americans, Martin A. Siegel, L James B. Stewart, Latinos, Robin Duke, Angier Biddle Duke, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Except for having no golf course, the River Club at 447 East 52nd Street is as close to a country club as one could find in the middle of New York City.

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part II

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Fdr Drive, Uneeda Biscuit, William Pahlmann, William Lawrence Bottomley, Marta Raymond, Akron Ohio, Lord & Taylor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maurice Fatio, Mrs. Diego De Suarez, Audrey James Coats, River Club, Sidney Wagner, Walter Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance, Harold S. Vanderbilt, The National Cash Register Co., Marty Richards, Jr., Tom Hoving, Artful Tom, George Perkins Raymond, Harry Cushing, Joseph Mullen, Etienne Drian, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys, Walter and Pauline Hoving, Tiffany & Co, Mr. And Mrs. William Robertson Coe, Marshall Field III, River House, Ruth Baker Pratt, Frederick W. Patterson, King Edward VII, David Adler, William Rheinlander Stewart, Columbia, Eleanor McMillen Brown, Claude Monet, Mary Lea Johnson Richards, Clare Booth and Henry Luce, James A. Burden, Susan Hume Fraszer, Bonwitttelle, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Another trip to the fabulous River House overlooking the East River.

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Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Harlem, John F. Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Charlie Rose, Jesus, Architectural Digest, James Baldwin, Carter Burden, Mr. And Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly, Eartha Kitt, Jane Jacobs, Amanda Burden, Charlie Rangel, The Dakota, Parties, Vanderbilt, New York City, Barack Obama, River House, Robert F. Kennedy, Rezoning, Newport, Lewis H. Michaux, In the Hamptons, Henry Roth, New York Times, Malcolm X, Philip Johnsons, Society, Maya Angelou, Tuxedo Park, New-York-Socialites, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Reputedly she is known by friends and family as "Ba"; habitually, as a uniform, she sports sober Calvin Klein suits and subsists on tuna or grilled...

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