News about Marion Davies

The 'Heaven on the Hudson' reveals the recent past of a beloved New York City neighborhood, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive.' Stephanie Azzarone, a long-time resident, writes about how the 'hidden neighborhood' developed from squalor to splendor, from the beginning, when it was miles of farmland with grand 'country seats' to when it became a squatters settlement, where no one wanted to live near the'maniac's at the local asylum. Developers hoped that the'millionaire colony' of Fifth Avenue would have dominated the city's preeminent'millionaire colony' during the Gilded Age. In addition, Babe Ruth, the Gershwins, author Herman Wouk, and the 'father of the nuclear bomb' J. Robert Oppenheimer are among the outsize figures who once called it home. In comparison to a homicidal dentist (left) who poisoned both of his in-laws with a deadly combination of influenza, typhoid, and tuberculosis, as well as Marion Davies, the chorus girl mistress who was ensconced in a 25-room mansion, just down the street from his wife and family.