{"id":3391,"date":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"one-man-and-his-menagerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2005\/one-man-and-his-menagerie.html","title":{"rendered":"One man and his menagerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/\">www.ft.com<\/a>) Financial Times &#8211; It&#8217;s like entering Brigadoon,&#8221; says a friend as we drive through the gates of Judy and Michael Steinhardt&#8217;s 55-acre estate inWestchester, New York, one misty summer day. &#8220;An almost mystical experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\" align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>  To me, it is more like the Garden of Eden: 2,000 varieties of perennials, bulbs, trees and shrubs; encyclopaedic gardens; an orchard of 300 fruit trees (no two alike) highlighted by raspberries and  gooseberries in colours from burnished gold to deep purple; a magnificent collection of Japanese maples; and to top it all off a menagerie of monkeys, llamas, zebras, antelope, camels, wallabies,  lemurs, ostriches, cranes and rare fowl roaming the grounds with proprietorial nonchalance. It&#8217;s hard to believe that we are a mere 50-minute drive from Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>  Somehow, though, this property suits its larger-than-life owner. Michael Steinhardt is a pioneering hedge fund manager and Wall Street legend alongside George Soros and Julian Robertson. Since his  retirement in 1995, he has focused his considerable energies on three things: Jewish philanthropy (his charitable gifts total more than $100m), collecting (he and Judy have important antiquities,  pre-Columbian feather pieces, Judaica and art, including paintings and superb works on paper from Goya to Jasper Johns) and the Westchester estate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/dffc0fd8-3192-11da-9c7f-00000e2511c8.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(www.ft.com) Financial Times &#8211; It&#8217;s like entering Brigadoon,&#8221; says a friend as we drive through the gates of Judy and Michael Steinhardt&#8217;s 55-acre estate inWestchester, New York, one misty summer day. &#8220;An almost mystical experience.&#8221; To me, it is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}