Meet the Tisch Family

Posted by Carisa Kissane on Friday, May 17, 2024
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Tisch School of the Arts, Tisch Hospital... in New York City, the Tisch name is everywhere. The family owns holding company Lowes corporation, and recent estimates put their wealth at $21 billion.

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That, dear readers, makes them a very wealthy, powerful American family.

But unlike some of the families we've written about before (The Astors or Vanderbilts), their wealth can't be traced back to the 1800s. Theirs is the story of two Brooklyn brothers who started out with one hotel, then added to their empire as America was booming after World War II.

And they just kept adding.

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