The Hammerstein Family.(The City)

The New York Observer (New York, NY) | December 18, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Sara Vilkomerson

In my generation, no one knows Hammerstein-maybe I'll get, 'Are you related to the ballroom?'" said Simon Hammerstein as he sat in his soon-to-be-opened supper club, the Box, on the Lower East Side. "I like to say, 'Yes, I am the ballroom's great-great-grandson.'"

The Hammerstein Ballroom is actually named for Oscar Hammerstein I-who constructed it as the Manhattan Opera House in 1906-not his far more famous grandson, Oscar Hammerstein II, of the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, who wrote Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, ...

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