Though the Vanderbilts would make their mark with sumptuous mansions along Fifth Avenue and along the Eastern seaboard, the family got its start on the north shore of Staten Island in Port Richmond. A ...

Long before Warren Buffett urged investors to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful, Cornelius Vanderbilt built an empire doing that very thing. Cornelius Vanderbilt was ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt saw the trouble coming. By 1873, the 79-year-old "Commodore," as he was called, was no stranger to risk: calculated bets with steamboat and railroad companies had made him by far ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

There are affordable homes and plenty of things to do in the picturesque Dutchess County town. What’s missing: a town center and wastewater management. A fixture in Saratoga and Lexington, she was a ...

Income inequality is a big deal on the presidential campaign trail nowadays. But let’s step back and look at how one of the richest Americans of his era got that way. In short, it was by getting past ...

Sure, Cornelius Vanderbilt was a robber baron who made a fortune off the sweat of immigrant labor and by monopolizing pretty much all travel east of Chicago. Sure, he was uneducated, and his business ...

Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On this day 133 years ago, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the world’s richest man, died. Where The ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. By organizing the fragmented transportation system in the United States, Cornelius Vanderbilt facilitated continental ...