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Julie Satow

Biography

Julie Satow

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist who has covered real estate in New York City for more than a decade. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and her work has also been featured on NPR, the Huffington Post, the New York Post and elsewhere.

Julie Satow

Books by Julie Satow

by Julie Satow - History, Nonfiction

From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the hotel's largest penthouse, the 18-story white marble edifice at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street has radiated wealth and luxury. In this definitive history, award-winning journalist Julie Satow reveals how a handful of rich, dowager widows were the financial lifeline that saved the hotel during the Great Depression, and how, today, foreign money and anonymous shell companies have transformed iconic guest rooms into condominiums that shield ill-gotten gains.