I wish billionaires were spending more on beautiful public places with cool sculptures.
Better than hiding wealth with art in storage centers that will never be seen again.
Better than hiding wealth with art in storage centers that will never be seen again.
little island in NYC was funded by Barry Diller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Island_at_Pier_55
Instead they now buy enough land to keep common folk far enough away from them on what used to be areas free to roam, eg what they're doing in Hawaii
A very narrow slice of American geography has those things, primarily within the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.
Regardless, they did that kind of thing back then because there was a real risk of a lower-class uprising if they didn't at least pretend to care about the little people.