Though the idea of the World Trade Center was first proposed in 1946, just after World War II, for nearly 15 years it would remain exactly that — an idea. When the concept did re-emerge in the late ...

As he jockeyed aggressively through the torrential chaos of downtown Manhattan traffic, the man hunched over the wheel of the fire-engine red 1956 Continental appeared to be unburdening himself of a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, former head of Chase Manhattan Corp and patriarch of one of the most famous and influential American families, died on Monday, a ...

‘Eventually all these objects which have brought so much pleasure to Peggy and me will go out into the world and will again be available to other caretakers who, hopefully, will derive the same ...

The late Standard Oil heir, David Rockefeller Sr., has left the Museum of Modern Art an estimated $103 million, adding to the $100 million pledge he made to the museum nearly 14 years ago, according ...

David Rockefeller has pledged $100-million to Harvard University, his alma mater. The pledge is the third gift of that size he has made in recent years. He announced in 2005 that he planned to give ...

NEW YORK — David Rockefeller, the billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the last in his generation of one of the country’s most famously philanthropic families, died Monday. He was 101.