William Steinway, also Wilhelm Steinway, born Wilhelm Steinweg ( March 5, 1835 – November 30, 1896 ), son of Steinway & Sons founder Henry E. Steinway, was a businessman and civic leader who was influential in the development of Astoria, New York.

Following basic training at Fort Monmouth, he was assigned to the old Paramount studios in Astoria, Queens ( where he had directed three films in the early 1930s ), although he was permitted to lodge at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan.

The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.

Café Josty was one of two rival cafés ( the other being the Astoria, later Café Eins A ), occupying the broad corner between Potsdamer Straße and Bellevuestraße.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

To celebrate their 40th anniversary ( 1967 – 2007 ), Tangerine Dream announced their only UK concert at London Astoria on 20 April 2007.

* Astoria ( cinema ), a cinema in Stockholm, Sweden

* Hotel Astoria ( Copenhagen ), Denmark

* Hotel Astoria ( Saint Petersburg ), Russia

* Astoria ( album ), an album by The Shys

* Astoria ( book ), a biographical account about John Jacob Astor by Washington Irving

* Astoria ( film ), a 2000 film about a Greek-American family, directed by Nick Efteriades

* Astoria ( recording studio ), David Gilmour's recording studio / houseboat

* Astoria ( Discworld ), the Ephebian goddess of love in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels

* Astoria ( muppet ), wife of Muppet Show character Waldorf

The company owns, manages, and / or franchises a portfolio of brands which includes Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Doubletree ( DoubleTree by Hilton ), Embassy Suites Hotels, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn and Hampton Inn & Suites, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton and Hilton Grand Vacations.

Aerial view of the U. S. Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Warrenton, Oregon ( USA ), in 1974

In fact, when they finally reached the Pacific Coast and conducted their historic vote on selecting their winter camp site, the three viable options considered were the Clatsop area near Astoria ( Oregon ), the north bank near Chinook ( Washington ), and the fertile valley near the Sandy and Washougal Rivers.

The fort was supplied by ships from the Pacific and by the overland York Factory Express trade route, which evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria, founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

* Steinway Street ( IND Queens Boulevard Line ), a subway station in Astoria, Queens, New York City

Astor's " Fort Astoria " ( later Fort George ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, became the first permanent white settlement in that area, although it was not profitable for Astor.

The Hell Gate Bridge ( originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or The East River Arch Bridge ) is a steel through arch railroad bridge between Astoria in the borough of Queens, Randall's / Wards Island ( which are now joined into one island and are politically part of Manhattan ), and The Bronx in New York City, over a portion of the East River known as Hell Gate.

Stone, who also designed subsequent Astoria venues at Brixton ( now the Brixton Academy ), Old Kent Road, Finsbury Park and Streatham.

Its stations are located in Alaska ( Anchorage and Fairbanks ), Montana ( Billings ), Oregon ( Astoria and Klamath Falls ), and Washington ( Tri-Cities and Yakima ).

* Shanghaied In Astoria is a musical melodrama performed from July – August since 1984 written and performed by local talent

The trail route along the North Platte River was first written about by Wilson Price Hunt of the Astor Expedition who was traveling back to the Missouri River from the newly established Fort Astoria on the Columbia River in 1811.

All of the songs on Illinois were written, recorded, engineered, and produced by Stevens, with most of the material being recorded at The Buddy Project studio in Astoria, Queens, and in Stevens ' Brooklyn apartment.

For example, the name of The Waldorf = Astoria hotel is officially written with a double hyphen.

The Planning Group worked in the Hotel Astoria in central Paris while construction of a permanent facility began at Rocquencourt, just west of the city, at Camp Voluceau.

an elementary school teacher, and her husband were at home in Astoria, Queens, when they learned from a hospital's telephone call that her son Morty, a gay activist, had been beaten while distributing flyers inside the fiftieth annual Inner Circle dinner, a political gathering in New York City.

* June 15, 1904 – The General Slocum, carrying 1300 to a picnic site on Long Island, catches fire while on the East River alongside Astoria, Queens.

The Q begins at the south end of the Brighton Line, at Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue, and travels over the Manhattan Bridge south tracks and along the BMT Broadway Line to Midtown Manhattan during late nights and weekends and Astoria, Queens weekdays while the B begins at Brighton Beach and runs via the bridge's north tracks and the IND Sixth Avenue Line to Harlem, Manhattan during middays and evenings and Bedford Park, Bronx rush hours.

In 1812, Robert Stuart and six companions from the Pacific Fur Company ( the Astorians ) happened to cross the Rockies at this point while trying to avoid Indians further north, on their return to Saint Louis, Missouri from Astoria, Oregon.

The Umpqua flows west through the Oregon Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean at Reedsport, while the Willamette flows north to the Columbia River, which flows northwest to the Pacific Ocean at Astoria.

O ' Hara is to act as the substitute teacher in the son's kindergarten class at Astoria Elementary School, while Kimble is to discover the identity of the mother.

On June 1, 1915, Panzram burgled a house in Astoria, Oregon and was arrested soon after while attempting to sell some of the stolen items.

Buchanan was an amateur lyricist who was an Astoria state judge, while Murtagh was a professional musician with a Broadway credit, but who was best known as a professionally-trained theatre organist on the West Coast during the silent movie era.

The N was switched to Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard, while the went to 71st Avenue.

At that time, all elevated trains to Queensboro Plaza used the Astoria Line while all subway trains used the Corona Line, though this was later changed with trains alternating between branches.

was given by Washington Irving in his travelogue Astoria.

The American author, Washington Irving, also mentioned the native Americans resident at Wishram in his history of the Northwest titled Astoria Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains and published in 1836.

Western European culture equally self-identified as Hyperborean ; thus Washington Irving, in elaborating on Astoria in the Pacific Northwest, was of the opinion that