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What Made Oscar Tschirky the King of Gilded Age New York
During his long tenure as maître d’ at the famed Waldorf Hotel, Oscar had the city’s elite at his fingertips
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The Whiskey Wars That Left Brooklyn in Ruins
Unwilling to pay their taxes, distillers in New York City faced an army willing to go to the extreme to enforce the law
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