Additional Reporting by Emma Whitford.
Photographs: New York Historical Society (John Durand, the Rapalje ChildreN, 1768); AP
(O’Hanlon); Bettmann/Corbis (Wharton); New York Times/Redux (McCormack); NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images (Vanderbilt); Sam Falk/
New York Times/Getty Images (Fischer); Betmann/Corbis (Duke); Rick
Maiman/Sygma/Corbis (Ambati); Nancy R. Schiff/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Anderson); Mary S. Watkins (Paul); Mark Lennihan/AP (Maier); Kathy Willens/AP (Shabazz); Bryan Smith/New
York Daily News Archive (Wohabe).