https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:30:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1638 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1638#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2015 23:24:02 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1638 At her death, the Witch of Wall Street was worth more than J. P. Morgan, and nearly all of it was in cash. Yet Hetty Green had worn the same dress for thirty years and lived in squalor. The Witch's son Ned was another matter, a six-foot, four-inch, 300-pound eccentric]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1638/feed 1