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At 91st and Fifth, this is the mansion of Andrew Carnegie, who was so rich that he had torn down several houses on this block, and built a mansion that takes up half the block. Carnegie controlled the steel market at the time when steel was driving technology forward. By 1894 Carnegie was richer than any human being in the world.
In fact, there were only two New Yorkers so wealthy that they could "show off" their immense riches by doing the most non-flashy thing: they grew lawns. There's a lawn here at Carnegie's mansion, and another one at Henry Clay Frick's -- another major player in steel -- house, a mile south. No one else, on this avenue of the super-rich, would have dared tear down six houses only to grow grass instead!

And they say history isn't cool!

Come on out for a pedicab tour of New York, and leave the bus behind.

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