Epstein Secrets

ake the city uninhabitable. Epi- demics, from the Black Death down, have inflicted their highest death t

iously, this wasn't always the case. When Europeans first began to settle Manhattan, in the early seventeenth century, a broad salt marsh lay where the East Village does today, the area now occupied by Harlem was flanked by sylvan bluffs, and Murray Hill and Lenox Hill were hills. Streams ran everywhere, and b

Princess Diana—is the perfect Uptown home base. Black-and-white marble floors and Goldenrod chaises fil

wer East Side Manhattan's original bohemian enclave may look a bit different than it did a century ago—heck, even a few decades ago—but vestiges of the East Village and the Lower East Side's past remain. Nowadays, these old-school institutions share space with neighborhood newcomers—shops, restaurants, and muse

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, specializing in such mathematical models as the Black-Scholes options-pricing model. Later, he began t

and physics from a couple of noteworthy organizations including The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and the Arts, a private college in the East Village, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. From his earliest days, Epstein's love of finance and his devotion to education were interwov