Once upon a time, the site was owned by John Jacob Astor, whose son ... and often called the most important real estate developers in the city at the time. Bing & Bing brought in architects ...

The home is named as such because John Jacob Astor IV founded the original St. Regis Hotel in 1904. MORE: The New School Cuts Price on Manhattan Townhouse in Half Construction on the 55-acre ...

In that case, the 14-carat object belonged to the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor, whose net worth was around $87 million when the disaster happened in 1912, according to the ...

In a previous sale, the same auction house sold a pocket watch recovered from John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man on board the Titanic, for GBP 900,000 (₹9.4 crore INR). Though less opulent ...

April last year, bidding, which started at £60,000, on a 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch worn by the richest man aboard the Titanic, John Jacob Astor IV, far exceeded expectations when it sold ...

Some of the wealthiest people in the world were on board, including property tycoon John Jacob Astor IV, great grandson of John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Millionaire ...

First-class passengers John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, two of the wealthiest men on the boat, both lost their lives — the documentary revealed that the crumbling ship may have come ...

When New York City socialite Ruth Livingston Mills inherited her family's country estate known as Staatsburgh ... Ruth's cousin, John Jacob Astor, was the richest man in the world when he died ...