you did not ask carolyn astor to step aside. she said no. he got even with her and moved his family to ng gland and can he built the wahl dor of hotel on the site of his house to spite his hand so every time she came home she had to deal with the hotel. she said it is 1892 and i am moving uptown and that's where everybody is going and builds aa new mansion and she builds the astoria hotel. they were physically joined but two separate hotels which is why when you write it it is an equal sign and not a dash. apparently the contract that built this building and joined it to the original wal dorf said if the nephew ever bothered her again she would wall up the access between the waldorf and the astoria, one of the first grand hotels in the 20th century. when you went inside there was a beautiful, i don't know what happened here. when you went inside there was a beautiful pathway, a concourse. we know it as peacock alley, and it kind of shows us the shift of entertainment from the houses of the wealthy of new york to public venues. back in the 19