Islip Town officials say they plan to take a second stab at protecting Oakdale's iconic Idle Hour mansion after residents ... would ensure the century-old Vanderbilt estate, the centerpiece ...

Idle Hour—a 70,000-square-foot Vanderbilt mansion completed in 1901—once symbolized the peak of American wealth and architectural ambition. But since falling into disuse in 2016, the estate ...

The mansion was built in the 1870s and is formerly part of the Idle Hour estate of William K. Vanderbilt, the grandson of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Islip Town Board voted last ...

The community members told NBC New York that pleas to maintain the property — and protect its centerpiece, the historic Vanderbilt mansion known as Idle Hour — have gone ignored. "People are ...

The community members told NBC New York that pleas to maintain the property — and protect its centerpiece, the historic Vanderbilt mansion known as Idle Hour — have gone ignored. "People are ...

Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and ... even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace ...