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Riverside: Manhattan’s OTHER Millionaire’s Row | DOCUMENTARY



Riverside: Manhattan’s OTHER Millionaire’s Row | DOCUMENTARY

Dive into an extraordinary journey as we uncover the hidden history of Manhattan’s Riverside Drive, once lined with magnificent mansions and cliff-side castles. From Charles Schwab’s ultra-modern chateau to the romantic Paterno Castle, discover the stories behind these stunning residences and find out why they vanished from the cityscape.

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  1. @richardcedenomarquez1922 on

    Interesantes historias e imágenes que trasladan nuestras mente a una época dorada, de lujos , modernidad y un glamoroso estilo de vida reflejados en esas magnificas mansiones palaciegas

  9. @GlennMandeville154 on

    I think I understand why these mansions were demolished. But it still makes me very sad that this state of affairs had to occur. You did a great job Ken. A great video filled with a lot of knowledge. Many thanks!

  16. @ronaldhorton2438 on

    I have enjoyed your post for a really long while. They were easy to fit into my day because they were short. Please continue your short format. Thank you. ❤🎉😊

  17. @DCHutchins on

    Very Interesting, we are planning a trip to see Fort Tyron area. Wish they would have saved a few things in NYC, like the old Penn Station.Thanks

  20. @aalexander928 on

    This was a beautiful presentation of great domestic architecture.
    However, it also shows the inability of people to preserve handsome structures for
    later generations.
    What a pity that most of these mansions and large houses no longer exist.
    Thank you for posting this video.

  24. @asylumlover on

    KEN, THIS IS DOWN RIGHT TREASONOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER THAT I HAVE SPENT TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, AND TO PASS THROUGH THE AREA YOU ARE DESCRIBING TODAY, ONE HAS ALMOST NO CLUE AS TO WHAT ONCE WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEEDLESS TO SAY, MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO, THIS AREA SHOULD HAVE BEEN DECLARED A DEMOLITION FREE ZONE AND A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK AND PARK PRESERVE, MAKING ANY ATTEMPT AT DESTRUCTION OF EVEN ONE OF THOSE LANDMARK ESTATES A SERIOUS CRIMINAL OFFENSE, WHICH IT WAS ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE SHOULD STILL COLLABORATE ON SOME MATERIAL REGARDING DETROIT HARPER HOSPITAL, BUT FOR NOW, LONG LIVE THIS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  27. @michaelangelo-the-singer-br549 on

    How is it possible that nobody wanted Charles Schwab's mansion and it sat abandoned for years, then torn down! My heart breaks as if It were my mansion it, has to be the most specular home I have ever seen built. Idiot Elon Musk is next, he already lost over 500 billion dollars but is till the richest idiot in the world with like 233 billion and losing, lol!😎😎Anywho, eight months after Rana's death, in September 1939, Charles Michael Schwab, age seventy-seven, died of a heart attack. Schwab's estate showed assets of $1.4 million and debts of $1.7 million, making him technically bankrupt when he died. He wasn't exactly penniless because he was hanging on to some jewels and crap, selling some in a never ending hustle like me, while avoiding bill collectors whenever he needed to eat or party or something, lol.. Oh, that house should have been saved, puts to shame the modern crap we see today, it hurts so much!😭😭😭😭

  28. @neilvaughan6675 on

    Love your channel and your presenting. Fantastic video. Loved watching that. It's so sad these beautiful homes are no longer there. What makes London so great, is we managed to preserve a lot more of our beautiful history. Riverside Drive looks ike a lovely place to be back then

  29. @user-sr9se8pd1d on

    Thank you, Ken. This is one of my favorite stations. Thank you for taking the time out and collecting all of these valuable pictures. It’s such a shame and it breaks my heart that some of these beautiful buildings are gone forever. What is wrong with people?

  30. @user-sr9se8pd1d on

    I was shocked to hear about Charles Schwab, losing all of his fortune and died with pennies. Yikes maybe he should’ve saved some of that money. It’s a Catch-22 instead of building the house worth almost 200,000,000 by today’s standards. Perhaps he should’ve saved some of that money, it seems kind of ridiculous, whatever happened to the wife did she just pack up and leave when he went broke they never said?

  32. @divox9pqr on

    The next time I am in New City, I will take a drive up the riverside to see if there are any more mansions remaining from the golden age, or if the area has been debased by classless apartment buildings

  33. @Idagramos on

    Beautiful! Thank you for sharing, I had no idea these castles existed. What a waste and how ugly things are now. Great job and research. Loved watching and learn so much. 🙂

  35. @MrRezRising on

    Currently sitting a few hundred feet away from Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Park. I've seen photos of a mansion that was once in the park, and I found the original footprint of a large house in the woods. Oddly, there was no house, just a wrought iron fence encircling….nothing. Flat tarmac.
    Might have been Mr. Seaman's house? He owned the park before giving it to the city. This was back when Inwood was called Tubby Hook.

  39. @daviddawes293 on

    If you’re a fan of gilded age architecture riverside drive still has some amazing buildings. And it’s still pretty scenic for a city that adopted brutalist styling

  40. @brendadrew834 on

    Another "Guilded Age" of another era! Thanks for the great presentation, fascinating photos and wonderful narration! I grew up in beautiful northeast NJ and my family and I went into NYC almost every weekend in the 1950s and 60s and went over the George Washington Bridge and down the West Side Highway more times than I can remember. I do remember that big vast stone wall on the Upper West Side and also went to Grant's Tomb! Years later I went to a university and lived and worked in Manhattan for a few years as a professional fashion illustrator. I worked around the corner from the J. P. Morgan Library and Mansion which is a wonderful educational/cultural place to visit! And on weekends I hung out in gorgeous Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Henry Clay Frick Mansion and art museum on Fifth Ave. That museum was for free on the weekends and every Sunday they would have a free concert in the lovely palm court under a beautiful skylight with a quartet playing Baroque music! The dining room overlooking Fifth Ave. was also beautiful, a lovely room filled with famous art! Have always loved to study architecture and all the details of old architecture as well as in Europe. The Frick , the MET, the Guggenheim and Central Park are great places to escape from the city crowds and noise on the weekends!

    Too bad they didn't save Tryon Hall, that would have made a great hotel or inn and they didn't have the foresight to see or envision that! I absolutely hate it when we destroy the past, once it's gone it's gone forever, there's no getting it back! Europe is much better at preserving their past than we are! They still have restaurants in Paris 400 years old, a famous chocolate candy store/coffee house in Vienna 600 years old, owned by the same family! And in the UK they practically keep everything historic, they still have the palace and kitchen of King Henry the 8th and his kitchen is still in use for demonstrations to this day! Love Olmsted's landscape designs he also designed the grounds and gardens of the Chicago World Fair in 1893 and lovely Boston's Public Garden and the Mt. Auburn Cemetery just outside beautiful historic Boston, one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world! The lighting of the world's fair in Chicago was none other than famous genius scientist Nicolai Tesla! This old soul wishes she could have been a fly on the wall back then or taken a time machine back to those iconic times! So don't forget to support the National Trust for Historic Preservation so we don't lose anymore famous historic buildings, homes, landmark restaurants etc.! Still pissed off they closed down historic restaurant Durgin Park in Boston, famous for it's great authentic Yankee New England food, often visited by some famous people! Now no one young will ever remember that wonderful iconic historic restaurant opened in 1827!!

  41. @LaurenceDay-d2p on

    What a tragedy that his beautiful mansion was destroyed. Some country should have bought it for an embassy, or a church could have bought it for a seminary. Alas, everything beautiful is destroyed.

  44. @Poetessa2 on

    This was amazing!! I adore that old architecture and breaks my heart to see them all torn down, replaced by apartment buildings! I was really curious if you knew what mansion stood where the very enigmatic Masters Building stands today. Built by Nicholas Roerich . That building has a lot of strange history and mystery and was just curious if you knew what was there prior, wondering if there were oddities in the first structure too!
    Thanks so much for sharing this amazing video! It inspires me seeing all that old world charm though as I sad, it makes me very sad as well. This was going on at the same time in Montreal where I live and my building was built on the remains of a beautiful castle style mansion. I shudder to think how many of those stunning historical masterpieces are destroyed in the name of 'progress.'

  45. @BONNIEJOYOSBORN on

    How did the USA go from that beauty to how ugly it is now you ask ? It's called jealousy and hate . . I grew up on Riverside Drive , literally it was my park , my playground , the Hudson River was my River. When you love it , you cherish it, you hold it in your heart and mind and body . For me it was where as a baby I saw the leaves on the trees for the first time.

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