"Boss Tweed is buried there, the Steinway family is buried there, the list goes on and on."
Almost half of the company's more than 125 patented inventions were developed by the first and second generations of the Steinway family.
The crumbling six-story brick factory, built in 1901 by the Steinway family, has been empty for six years.
At several public occasions, Henry Z. Steinway represented the Steinway family.
The current site of the airport was originally used by the Gala Amusement Park, owned by the Steinway family.
He arrived in New York in January 1939, where the Steinway family advised him to go to Texas, a place they felt held employment potential.
The Steinway family informed Reiter Texans had purchased more Steinway pianos per capita than in any other state.
However, in 1936 a soundboard based on a patent of Paul Bilhuber, an "in-law" member of the Steinway family, was introduced.
The Steinway family open up a piano-making business, Steinway & Sons, in New York.
The Steinway family bought it in 1870 and built its piano factory and workers' housing nearby.