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Old Westbury, New York

April 26, 2024

Old Westbury is a village in the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 4,671 at the 2010 census.

Old Westbury, New York
Village
Incorporated Village of Old Westbury
Old Westbury Village Hall, Police Station, and Post Office on August 25, 2021.
Location in Nassau County and the state of New York
Old Westbury, New York
Location on Long Island
Old Westbury, New York
Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 40°46′55″N 73°35′50″W / 40.78194°N 73.59722°W / 40.78194; -73.59722
Country United States
State New York
CountyNassau
TownsNorth Hempstead
Oyster Bay
Incorporated1924
Named forWestbury, Wiltshire, England
Area
[1]
 • Total8.57 sq mi (22.20 km2)
 • Land8.57 sq mi (22.20 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation
164 ft (50 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total4,289
 • Density500.35/sq mi (193.18/km2)
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
11568
Area codes516, 363
FIPS code36-54705
GNIS feature ID0959332
Websitewww.villageofoldwestbury.org

The Incorporated Village of Old Westbury is one of the wealthiest villages in the country as well as the second-richest zip code in the New York State, topped only by Harrison in Westchester County.[2] In 2007, Business Week dubbed Old Westbury as New York's most expensive suburb.[3] Old Westbury Gardens has been recognized as one of the three best public gardens in the world by Four Seasons Hotels magazine.[4]

History edit

 
1906 Vanderbilt Cup hairpin turn in Old Westbury

Westbury was founded by Edmond Titus,[5][6] and was later joined by Henry Willis, one of the first English settlers.[7] Westbury had been a Quaker community of isolated farms until the railroad came in 1836. After the Civil War, the New York elite discovered that the rich, well-wooded flat countryside of the Hempstead Plains was a place to raise horses, and to hunt foxes and play polo at the Meadow Brook Polo Club.

The Village of Old Westbury was incorporated in 1924, separating itself from Westbury, the adjacent area that housed many of the families of the construction and building staffs for the Old Westbury mansions.[7][8] The "Old" part of Old Westbury's name reflects the community's need for its postal address to be different from the Westbury in Cayuga County, as per postal requirements (it had been using a postal address of North Hempstead for this reason); residents did this when they wanted a local post office ca. 1841, and when they incorporated Old Westbury as a village, they felt that it would be confusing for the village name and post office name to be different from one another.[7] The Village of Westbury, located adjacent to Old Westbury, adopted that designation when it incorporated in 1932 as Cayuga County's Westbury's name was no longer being used.[7]

The area was originally known as Wallage, which is related to a Native American term roughly meaning "ditch" or "hole."[7] By February 1663, it was known as Wood Edge, and by October 1675 it was known as "the Plains edge" or simply Plainedge.[7] The name Westbury began to be used for the area around 1683. The name Westbury was chosen by Henry Willis, who named it after Westbury, Wiltshire, his hometown in England.[7]

Westbury House was the residence of Henry Phipps' eldest son, John Shaffer Phipps. Today, the property is operated as Old Westbury Gardens. Robert Low Bacon built 'Old Acres' in the style of an Italian villa. Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, founder of New York's Whitney Museum, at Apple Green (formerly a Mott house), Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology. The architect Thomas Hastings built a modest house for himself, 'Bagatelle', in 1908. A. Conger Goodyear, then president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City had a house built in 1938 by famed architect Edward Durell Stone, who also destined the building for Conger's museum. In 2003, the A. Conger Goodyear House was added to the National Register of Historic Places to protect the structure from being demolished to subdivide the expensive land surrounding it.[9] The estate of Robert Winthrop, an investment banker and member of the Dudley–Winthrop family, for whom Winthrop-University Hospital was named, has been similarly preserved. Part of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's estate and her sculpture studio has been preserved and maintained by one of her grandchildren, Pamela Tower LeBoutillier.

During World War II, a 187-foot-high tower at the present-day Old Westbury Golf & Country Club, aided the military during World War II as a lookout to spot enemy aircraft.[10] Originally built as the water tower for the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Residence, it now serves as the club's focal point.[10][11]

When Robert Moses was planning the Northern State Parkway, the powers of Old Westbury forced him to re-site it five miles (8 km) to the south. Once the parkway was completed, many residents found it to not be the eyesore they had been anticipating and regretted making their commutes more inconvenient than necessary. In the 1950s, the state purchased land from Charles E. Wilson, a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation's capital to serve in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet. The land, which runs along an edge of the village, was used for the Long Island Expressway.

Geography edit

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 8.57 square miles (22.2 km2), all land.[12]

Demographics edit

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
19301,264—
19401,017−19.5%
19501,16014.1%
19602,06477.9%
19702,66729.2%
19803,27722.9%
19903,89718.9%
20004,2288.5%
20104,67110.5%
20204,289−8.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[13]

As of the census[14] of 2000, there were 4,228 people, 1,063 households, and 967 families residing in the village. The population density was 493.9 inhabitants per square mile (190.7/km2). There were 1,109 housing units at an average density of 129.5 per square mile (50.0/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 73.19% White, 4.24% African American, 0.02% Native American, 7.52% Asian, 3.67% from other races, and 2.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.14% of the population.

There were 1,063 households, out of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.2% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.0% were non-families. Of all households 5.6% were made up of individuals, and 2.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.33 and the average family size was 3.37.

In the village, the age distribution of the population shows 22.7% under the age of 18, 20.2% from 18 to 24, 19.9% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.6 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $163,046, and the median income in the village was $184,298 for a family. The median earnings of the 899 households (89.6% of total households) in the village that took in earnings supplemental to income was $230,721. Males had a median income of $100,000+ versus $45,200 for females. The per capita income for the village was $72,932. About 1.1% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.

Education edit

Public schools edit

 
The Wheatley School, one of the public high schools serving, and located within, Old Westbury.

Residents are zoned to schools in one of four school districts, depending on where in the village they reside.[15] They are the East Williston Union Free School District, the Jericho Union Free School District, the Roslyn Union Free School District, and the Westbury Union Free School District.[15]

Additionally, the Westbury Union Free School District's high school, Westbury High School – along with the East Williston Union Free School District's secondary school, The Wheatley School – are located within the village.

Private schools edit

Colleges and universities edit

Landmarks edit

 
Old Westbury Gardens is one of several estates built by the Phippses in Old Westbury.

Notable people edit

 
Mrs. Henry Phipps and Her Grandson Winston by John Singer Sargent (1906/07)

In popular culture edit

Film edit

Television edit

  • Alpha House: The forthcoming second season of the Amazon series starring John Goodman had scenes filmed in an Old Westbury estate [33]
  • Gossip Girl: Season two's nineteenth episode, "The Grandfather", originally airing March 23, 2009, featured an Old Westbury estate as the "van der Bilt” mansion
  • The Gilded Age: Season two's sixth episode, “Warning Shots", originally airing November 26, 2023
  • Paper Dolls: 1984 primetime drama starring Morgan Fairchild, Nicollette Sheridan, Lauren Hutton and Mimi Rogers
  • Person of Interest: Season one's seventeenth episode, "Baby Blue", originally airing March 8, 2012, included Moretti's car crash and other road scenes filmed in Old Westbury. The series returned to Old Westbury for the fifth season's sixth episode, "A More Perfect Union", originally airing May 23, 2016, which included horse-riding scenes at the Dudley–Winthrop family estate and a wedding at the Alexander de Seversky mansion.
  • Royal Pains: Season one's third episode, "Strategic Planning", originally airing June 18, 2009, features the Phipps estate as the home of a wealthy senator and used the lawn as a University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish practice field
  • Sex and the City: Season five's finale episode, "I Love a Charade", originally airing September 8, 2002, featured an Old Westbury home in place of an estate in the Hamptons

Reality television edit

  • America's Castles: A&E Network documentary series on gilded age homes featured Peggy Phipps Boegner touring one of the Phipps family's estates on the episode airing August 8, 1995, entitled "The Gold Coast".
  • Growing Up Gotti: A&E Network reality series about life in Victoria Gotti's Old Westbury home in 2004 and 2005
  • Princesses: Long Island: Bravo reality series, which features Old Westbury resident Erica Gimbel as one of the six original cast members
  • Secrets and Wives: Bravo reality series, that features the lives of women living in Old Westbury and surrounding towns
  • Selling New York: In season five's first episode, "A Prince Looks for a Property...", originally airing January 19, 2012, Prince Lorenzo Borghese views an Old Westbury estate, along with two other North Shore properties, but ultimately does not purchase any of the properties because he found that they each were too large

Wealth edit

According to Bloomberg/Businessweek, as of 2011, Old Westbury is the second "richest" town in the United States, trailing behind only Palm Beach, Florida.[38] The magazine previously dubbed the town "New York's wealthiest suburb."[3]

Based on a study done by Bloomberg in 2015, the average household income in the village is greater than $640,000.[39]

In 2011, Forbes, having done a study of "America's Millionaire Capitals", found that the average net worth of Old Westbury households was $19.6 million and with an average annual income of $1.2 million.[40] The controlled study included only households with incomes greater than $200,000, which excluded only residents that are living in college dormitories and the staff of homeowners.

The village is famous for being the seat of many of New York's (and America's) wealthiest families, including the Phippses, Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Webbs, Du Ponts, Winthrops, Mortimers, Belmonts and Huttons. While many of these older families—the founding members of the social elite and those that emerged during the gilded age—still count members as Old Westbury residents, the village has also maintained a substantial set of industrialists, businessmen, collectors, athletes and entertainers.[41]

The Old Westbury Fund is a hedge fund that is named after the town.

When Forbes asked billionaire investor Steven Schonfeld what the "wisest investment" he ever made was, his answer was "Old Westbury land".[42]

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Old Westbury is a village in the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County on the North Shore of Long Island in New York United States The population was 4 671 at the 2010 census Old Westbury New YorkVillageIncorporated Village of Old WestburyOld Westbury Village Hall Police Station and Post Office on August 25 2021 Location in Nassau County and the state of New YorkOld Westbury New YorkLocation on Long IslandShow map of Long IslandOld Westbury New YorkLocation within the state of New YorkShow map of New YorkCoordinates 40 46 55 N 73 35 50 W 40 78194 N 73 59722 W 40 78194 73 59722Country United StatesState New YorkCountyNassauTownsNorth HempsteadOyster BayIncorporated1924Named forWestbury Wiltshire EnglandArea 1 Total8 57 sq mi 22 20 km2 Land8 57 sq mi 22 20 km2 Water0 00 sq mi 0 00 km2 Elevation164 ft 50 m Population 2020 Total4 289 Density500 35 sq mi 193 18 km2 Time zoneUTC 5 Eastern EST Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP Code11568Area codes516 363FIPS code36 54705GNIS feature ID0959332Websitewww wbr villageofoldwestbury wbr org The Incorporated Village of Old Westbury is one of the wealthiest villages in the country as well as the second richest zip code in the New York State topped only by Harrison in Westchester County 2 In 2007 Business Week dubbed Old Westbury as New York s most expensive suburb 3 Old Westbury Gardens has been recognized as one of the three best public gardens in the world by Four Seasons Hotels magazine 4 Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics 4 Education 4 1 Public schools 4 2 Private schools 4 3 Colleges and universities 5 Landmarks 6 Notable people 7 In popular culture 7 1 Film 7 2 Television 7 3 Reality television 8 Wealth 9 References 10 External linksHistory edit nbsp 1906 Vanderbilt Cup hairpin turn in Old Westbury Westbury was founded by Edmond Titus 5 6 and was later joined by Henry Willis one of the first English settlers 7 Westbury had been a Quaker community of isolated farms until the railroad came in 1836 After the Civil War the New York elite discovered that the rich well wooded flat countryside of the Hempstead Plains was a place to raise horses and to hunt foxes and play polo at the Meadow Brook Polo Club The Village of Old Westbury was incorporated in 1924 separating itself from Westbury the adjacent area that housed many of the families of the construction and building staffs for the Old Westbury mansions 7 8 The Old part of Old Westbury s name reflects the community s need for its postal address to be different from the Westbury in Cayuga County as per postal requirements it had been using a postal address of North Hempstead for this reason residents did this when they wanted a local post office ca 1841 and when they incorporated Old Westbury as a village they felt that it would be confusing for the village name and post office name to be different from one another 7 The Village of Westbury located adjacent to Old Westbury adopted that designation when it incorporated in 1932 as Cayuga County s Westbury s name was no longer being used 7 The area was originally known as Wallage which is related to a Native American term roughly meaning ditch or hole 7 By February 1663 it was known as Wood Edge and by October 1675 it was known as the Plains edge or simply Plainedge 7 The name Westbury began to be used for the area around 1683 The name Westbury was chosen by Henry Willis who named it after Westbury Wiltshire his hometown in England 7 Westbury House was the residence of Henry Phipps eldest son John Shaffer Phipps Today the property is operated as Old Westbury Gardens Robert Low Bacon built Old Acres in the style of an Italian villa Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt founder of New York s Whitney Museum at Apple Green formerly a Mott house Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology The architect Thomas Hastings built a modest house for himself Bagatelle in 1908 A Conger Goodyear then president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City had a house built in 1938 by famed architect Edward Durell Stone who also destined the building for Conger s museum In 2003 the A Conger Goodyear House was added to the National Register of Historic Places to protect the structure from being demolished to subdivide the expensive land surrounding it 9 The estate of Robert Winthrop an investment banker and member of the Dudley Winthrop family for whom Winthrop University Hospital was named has been similarly preserved Part of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney s estate and her sculpture studio has been preserved and maintained by one of her grandchildren Pamela Tower LeBoutillier During World War II a 187 foot high tower at the present day Old Westbury Golf amp Country Club aided the military during World War II as a lookout to spot enemy aircraft 10 Originally built as the water tower for the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Residence it now serves as the club s focal point 10 11 When Robert Moses was planning the Northern State Parkway the powers of Old Westbury forced him to re site it five miles 8 km to the south Once the parkway was completed many residents found it to not be the eyesore they had been anticipating and regretted making their commutes more inconvenient than necessary In the 1950s the state purchased land from Charles E Wilson a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation s capital to serve in President Dwight D Eisenhower s cabinet The land which runs along an edge of the village was used for the Long Island Expressway Geography editAccording to the United States Census Bureau the village has a total area of 8 57 square miles 22 2 km2 all land 12 Demographics editHistorical population CensusPop Note 19301 264 19401 017 19 5 19501 16014 1 19602 06477 9 19702 66729 2 19803 27722 9 19903 89718 9 20004 2288 5 20104 67110 5 20204 289 8 2 U S Decennial Census 13 As of the census 14 of 2000 there were 4 228 people 1 063 households and 967 families residing in the village The population density was 493 9 inhabitants per square mile 190 7 km2 There were 1 109 housing units at an average density of 129 5 per square mile 50 0 km2 The racial makeup of the village was 73 19 White 4 24 African American 0 02 Native American 7 52 Asian 3 67 from other races and 2 37 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17 14 of the population There were 1 063 households out of which 43 2 had children under the age of 18 living with them 82 2 were married couples living together 5 9 had a female householder with no husband present and 9 0 were non families Of all households 5 6 were made up of individuals and 2 9 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 3 33 and the average family size was 3 37 In the village the age distribution of the population shows 22 7 under the age of 18 20 2 from 18 to 24 19 9 from 25 to 44 25 7 from 45 to 64 and 11 6 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 35 years For every 100 females there were 86 7 males For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 84 6 males The median income for a household in the village was 163 046 and the median income in the village was 184 298 for a family The median earnings of the 899 households 89 6 of total households in the village that took in earnings supplemental to income was 230 721 Males had a median income of 100 000 versus 45 200 for females The per capita income for the village was 72 932 About 1 1 of families and 3 5 of the population were below the poverty line including 1 5 of those under age 18 and 3 3 of those age 65 or over Education editPublic schools edit nbsp The Wheatley School one of the public high schools serving and located within Old Westbury Residents are zoned to schools in one of four school districts depending on where in the village they reside 15 They are the East Williston Union Free School District the Jericho Union Free School District the Roslyn Union Free School District and the Westbury Union Free School District 15 Additionally the Westbury Union Free School District s high school Westbury High School along with the East Williston Union Free School District s secondary school The Wheatley School are located within the village Private schools edit Holy Child Academy A private Catholic day school grades K through 8 15 Colleges and universities edit New York Institute of Technology A private undergraduate and graduate university 15 SUNY Old Westbury A public four year liberal arts college 15 Landmarks edit nbsp Old Westbury Gardens is one of several estates built by the Phippses in Old Westbury Meadow Brook Polo Club The birthplace of American polo longest running polo club in the United States Old Westbury Gardens A public English style garden Notable people edit nbsp Mrs Henry Phipps and Her Grandson Winston by John Singer Sargent 1906 07 Jean Aberbach art collector founder of Hill amp Range music publishers that controlled much of the Elvis Presley catalog Carol Alt supermodel television personality Frank Altimari judge Artful champion thoroughbred horse Ashanti musician 16 Jerome Ash owner of Sam Ash Music stores Doe Avedon fashion model and actress wife of Richard Avedon the inspiration for Audrey Hepburn s character in Funny Face Avedon was legally adopted by the wealthy employer of her biological father who served as a butler until his death 17 Robert Low Bacon banker and congressman Florence Bellows Baker philanthropist and horticulturist Charles T Barney president of Wells Fargo amp Company president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company Alva Belmont socialite woman s suffragist Oliver Belmont son of August Belmont Harvey R Blau former mayor and deputy mayor chairman and former CEO of Griffon Corporation Vira Boarman Whitehouse woman suffragist birth control proponent Bold Reason champion thoroughbred horse Albert C Bostwick Jr steeplechase jockey Thoroughbred racehorse owner breeder trainer heir to the Standard Oil Trust Dunbar Bostwick horseman pilot sportsman heir to the Standard Oil Trust George Herbert Bostwick US Tennis player jockey trainer Pete Bostwick Standard Oil heir tennis champion Buckpasser champion thoroughbred horse Carl Andrew Capasso NYC contractor involved in bribery and tax evasion scandal Arielle Charnas fashion designer and blogger Michael Cimino film writer and director F Ambrose Clark equestrian heir to Singer Sewing Machine Co Eliot Cross architect and owner of Cross and Cross Marguerite Sawyer Hill Davis socialite and one of the wealthiest women of her time Herman Duryea thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder Herman Edwards Kansas City Chiefs coach Herve Filion harness racing driver Floyd H Flake member of U S House of Representatives Max Fortunoff founder owner of Fortunoff department stores 18 Bethenny Frankel SkinnyGirl cocktail founder television personality Real Housewives of New York City Bethenny Ever After author of multiple titles making The New York Times Best Seller list 19 Robert L Gerry Jr polo champion real estate investor Erica Gimbel socialite reality television star on Princesses Long Island Anson Goodyear philanthropist chairman of Gaylord Container Corporation director of Paramount Pictures director of the Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad first president of the Museum of Modern Art Victoria Gotti daughter of John Gotti reality television star author Michael P Grace chairman of W R Grace and Company NYC and Grace Brothers amp Co Ltd London England C Z Guest socialite Truman Capote swan celebrity gardener author 20 Cornelia Guest socialite crowned Deb of the Decade by Andy Warhol 1980s author 21 Frederick Guest polo player philanthropist British politician and peer Winston Frederick Churchill Guest Anglo American polo champion Phipps family heir Marie Norton Harriman First Lady of New York wife of W Averell Harriman art collector Thomas Hastings architect partner of Carrere and Hastings Leila Hadley socialite author Charles Kelman eye surgeon medical pioneer Gustave Maurice Heckscher pioneer seaplane aviator W Barklie Henry stockbroker yachtsman Frederick Hicks congressman diplomat James N Hill Great Northern Railway heir son of the empire builder James J Hill and Margaret Sawyer Hill Thomas Hitchcock polo champion Adam C Hochfelder real estate magnate Edward Francis Hutton financier and co founder of E F Hutton amp Co Matthew Ianniello restaurateur alleged Genovese crime family acting boss Kevin James actor 22 Reza Jarrahy plastic surgeon former husband of actress Geena Davis Peter S Kalikow real estate magnate car collector former Forbes 400 member New York Post owner Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner Foxhall Keene champion automobile racer polo player thoroughbred breeder purported original namesake for Chicken a la King Ed Kranepool New York Mets first baseman Nicole Krauss author wife of Jonathan Safran Foer James Lanier entrepreneur banker founder of Winslow Lanier amp Co owner of Lanier Mansion John LeBoutillier U S congressman Jack Liebowitz original co owner of DC Comics 23 William Goadby Loew financier and stockbroker James Brown Lord architect Charles B Macdonald builder of first U S 18 hole golf course and several other influential courses founder of United States Golf Association Jack Martins NYS Senator former mayor of Mineola Marvin Middlemark inventor of patent holder for the rabbit ears television antenna Devereux Milburn champion polo player attorney at Carter Ledyard amp Milburn son of John G Milburn E D Morgan III Morgan family heir Pioneer Fund director grandson namesake of the NY governor and U S Senator Bess Myerson Miss America 1945 Nas rapper 24 Brandon Nimmo MLB outfielder for the New York Mets 25 John Parisella successful horse trainer Darragh Park artist executor of the James Schuyler estate Angel Penna Sr thoroughbred horse trainer Murray Pergament founder of Pergament Home Centers Henry Phipps Jr Carnegie Steel Company partner philanthropist Henry Carnegie Phipps Carnegie Steel Company heir Phipps family heir sportsman Wheatley Stable owner Hubert Beaumont Phipps Phipps family and Grace family heir publisher thoroughbred breeder John Shaffer Phipps director of U S Steel and W R Grace amp Co Lillian Bostwick Phipps socialite thoroughbred horse stable owner Michael Grace Phipps polo champion Phipps family and Grace family heir board member of Bessemer Trust and W R Grace amp Co Ogden Phipps Carnegie Steel heir tennis champion philanthropist Leonard Pines owner of Hebrew National Fred Plum neurosurgeon who developed the term persistent vegetative state and treated President Nixon 26 Lilly Pulitzer designer socialite Aby Rosen 27 art collector and real estate mogul with holdings including the Seagram Building Lever House W South Beach Gramercy Park Hotel Paramount Hotel and Planet Hollywood Miracle Mile Shops Ely Sakhai notorious gallery owner and art forger Harvey Sanders Nautica CEO chairman of the board and president Under Armour director 28 Steven Schonfeld American billionaire ranked 371 on Forbes 400 29 Eleanor Searle philanthropist singer John Shalam founder and CEO of Audiovox Igor Sikorsky airplane developer and first major producer of helicopters David Simon CEO of Simon Property Group Bernice Steinbaum gallerist dealer curator juror speaker author Howard Stern entertainer Beatrice Straight member of Whitney family Academy Award winning actress Willard Dickerman Straight banker diplomat co founder of The New Republic magazine Harold E Talbott early aviator president of Dayton Wright Airplane Company third United States Secretary of the Air Force Seabury Tredwell future owner of what is now the Merchant s House Museum in Manhattan Barry Van Gerbig socialite son in law of Douglas Fairbanks Jr NHL owner Consuelo Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family heiress wife of firstly Charles Spencer Churchill 9th Duke of Marlborough and secondly record breaking pilot Jacques Balsan Gloria Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family heiress clothing and perfume designer Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family heir prominent railroad industrialist philanthropist and yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt II Vanderbilt family heir prominent motor racer and yachtsman Francis Skiddy von Stade Sr polo champion Saratoga Race Course president Ira Waldbaum built up the Waldbaum s supermarket chain from a six store operation into one of the largest in the Northeast George Herbert Walker banker and businessman namesake and grandfather of U S president George H W Bush namesake and great grandfather of U S President George W Bush Jimmy Walker flamboyant New York City Mayor part of the powerful Tammany Hall machine 30 Electra Havemeyer Webb collector philanthropist founder of the Shelburne Museum James Watson Webb owner of New York Courier and Enquirer newspaper politician J Watson Webb Jr film editor heir to both the Havemeyer and Vanderbilt families William Collins Whitney founder of the Whitney family financier U S Cabinet member thoroughbred stable owner Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Vanderbilt family and Whitney family heir financier philanthropist Dorothy Payne Whitney Whitney family heiress co founder of The New Republic magazine and the Dartington School Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Vanderbilt family heiress founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art Harry Payne Whitney member of Whitney family thoroughbred horse breeder Marylou Whitney socialite philanthropist thoroughbred stable owner Charles E Wilson president of General Motors U S Cabinet member Robert Winthrop member of the Dudley Winthrop family banker philanthropist namesake of Winthrop University Hospital Steve Witkoff Witkoff Group founder owner of the Woolworth Building Louis Wolfson financier thoroughbred horse owner Raphael Yakoby creator of Hpnotiq Alexei Yashin professional hockey player New York IslandersIn popular culture editFilm edit Admission 2013 starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd 31 filmed at HorseAbility at SUNY Old Westbury 32 The Age of Innocence 1993 starring Daniel Day Lewis the scenes depicting May Welland Winona Ryder s Floridian mansion were actually shot in Old Westbury American Gangster 2007 starring Denzel Washington Dominic Cattano s house Arthur 1981 the mansion that Arthur Dudley Moore lives in The Associate 1996 Whoopi Goldberg s character Ayers attends an Old Westbury house party dressed as Cutty a man for the first time Bernard and Doris 2008 the Phipps estate used for the Doris Duke played by Susan Sarandon mansion in Newport Rhode Island Blue Jasmine 2013 Old Westbury estate used in this Woody Allen film 33 The Bourne Legacy 2012 starring Jeremy Renner Rachel Weisz Edward Norton residences on the village s famous tree lined street were shot for the film 34 Cruel Intentions 1999 the home of Kathryn Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sebastian s Ryan Phillippe s Aunt Helen on Long Island where Annette Reese Witherspoon is living The Curse of the Jade Scorpion 2001 by Woody Allen scenes shot at Old Westbury gardens and mansion Dark Horse 2012 starring Jordan Gelber Selma Blair Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow Old Westbury homes were shot to serve as Abe s Gelber s home and the fantasy home 35 From the Terrace 1960 starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Hitch 2005 starring Will Smith and Eva Mendes Allegra Cole s house Just Tell Me What You Want 1980 by Sidney Lumet Leave the World Behind 2023 starring Julia Roberts Mahershala Ali Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon the Long Island rental is The Open Corner farmhouse estate in Old Westbury Love Story 1970 starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O Neal the home of Oliver s wealthy father Lovesick 1983 starring Dudley Moore Elizabeth McGovern and Alec Guinness The Manchurian Candidate 2004 the Phipps estate used for the home of Eleanor Shaw played by Meryl Streep The Muppets 2011 Phipps mansion filmed as home of Tex Richman an oil tycoon played by Chris Cooper No Hard Feelings 2023 starring Jennifer Lawrence and Matthew Broderick giant house party scene filmed in Old Westbury home 36 37 North by Northwest 1959 by Alfred Hitchcock Townsend s home where Roger Thornhill Cary Grant is taken after being kidnapped Reversal of Fortune 1990 starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons the Knole estate used for interiors of the Sunny von Bulow mansion The Swimmer 1968 starring Burt Lancaster To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar 1995 starring Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze film s final scene Wolf 1994 the country home of Laura Michelle Pfeiffer where Jack Nicholson s character first becomes a wolf which appears on the DVD cover Television edit Alpha House The forthcoming second season of the Amazon series starring John Goodman had scenes filmed in an Old Westbury estate 33 Gossip Girl Season two s nineteenth episode The Grandfather originally airing March 23 2009 featured an Old Westbury estate as the van der Bilt mansion The Gilded Age Season two s sixth episode Warning Shots originally airing November 26 2023 Paper Dolls 1984 primetime drama starring Morgan Fairchild Nicollette Sheridan Lauren Hutton and Mimi Rogers Person of Interest Season one s seventeenth episode Baby Blue originally airing March 8 2012 included Moretti s car crash and other road scenes filmed in Old Westbury The series returned to Old Westbury for the fifth season s sixth episode A More Perfect Union originally airing May 23 2016 which included horse riding scenes at the Dudley Winthrop family estate and a wedding at the Alexander de Seversky mansion Royal Pains Season one s third episode Strategic Planning originally airing June 18 2009 features the Phipps estate as the home of a wealthy senator and used the lawn as a University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish practice field Sex and the City Season five s finale episode I Love a Charade originally airing September 8 2002 featured an Old Westbury home in place of an estate in the Hamptons Reality television edit America s Castles A amp E Network documentary series on gilded age homes featured Peggy Phipps Boegner touring one of the Phipps family s estates on the episode airing August 8 1995 entitled The Gold Coast Growing Up Gotti A amp E Network reality series about life in Victoria Gotti s Old Westbury home in 2004 and 2005 Princesses Long Island Bravo reality series which features Old Westbury resident Erica Gimbel as one of the six original cast members Secrets and Wives Bravo reality series that features the lives of women living in Old Westbury and surrounding towns Selling New York In season five s first episode A Prince Looks for a Property originally airing January 19 2012 Prince Lorenzo Borghese views an Old Westbury estate along with two other North Shore properties but ultimately does not purchase any of the properties because he found that they each were too largeWealth editAccording to Bloomberg Businessweek as of 2011 Old Westbury is the second richest town in the United States trailing behind only Palm Beach Florida 38 The magazine previously dubbed the town New York s wealthiest suburb 3 Based on a study done by Bloomberg in 2015 the average household income in the village is greater than 640 000 39 In 2011 Forbes having done a study of America s Millionaire Capitals found that the average net worth of Old Westbury households was 19 6 million and with an average annual income of 1 2 million 40 The controlled study included only households with incomes greater than 200 000 which excluded only residents that are living in college dormitories and the staff of homeowners The village is famous for being the seat of many of New York s and America s wealthiest families including the Phippses Vanderbilts Whitneys Webbs Du Ponts Winthrops Mortimers Belmonts and Huttons While many of these older families the founding members of the social elite and those that emerged during the gilded age still count members as Old Westbury residents the village has also maintained a substantial set of industrialists businessmen collectors athletes and entertainers 41 The Old Westbury Fund is a hedge fund that is named after the town When Forbes asked billionaire investor Steven Schonfeld what the wisest investment he ever made was his answer was Old Westbury land 42 References edit ArcGIS REST Services Directory United States Census Bureau Retrieved September 20 2022 This is Long Island s Richest ZIP Code April 11 2018 a b Business Week The Most Expensive Suburbs of the Biggest U S Cities New York City Old Westbury Four Seasons Magazine Where is the World s Best Public Garden Old Westbury Gardens Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley and Singapore s National Orchard Garden are named as the three best public gardens in the world Titus Family in America Page 3 Westbury Hartford 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