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Officially, the high-rise at 185 East 85th Street has a name: Park Lane Towers.
“But nobody calls it that,” said Rod Behren, who has lived there for more than a decade. “The de facto name of the building is ‘the Jeffersons’ building.’ You meet people. They say, ‘Where do you live?’ You say, ‘85th and Third.’ They say, ‘Oh, the Jeffersons’ building.’ ”
The world remembered the building, seen week after week in the opening sequence of the long-running sitcom, as it remembered Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played the excitable George Jefferson. Mr. Hemsley died on Tuesday at age 74. And on Wednesday, Matt Hamme stood in the lobby and remembered what it was like to live there when “The Jeffersons,” which ran from 1975 to 1985, was a highly watched show.
Mr. Hamme, now 32, grew up in the building. He said he used to run to the window and wave when “The Jeffersons” came on. Even when he was only 3 or 4 years old, he said, he could recognize the show’s theme song, with its lyric about “moving on up to the East Side.”
“I thought it was live,” said Mr. Hamme, a former assistant football coach at who sti
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Family Life at Monticello
1. In Merrill D. Peterson, ed., Visitors to Monticello (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1989), 33–34.
2. Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, Nov. 27, 1793. Published in “Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters,” Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., http://tjrs.monticello.org, 2015.
3. The restoration of the upper floors is part of the Mountaintop Project. This multi-year effort to restore Monticello as Jefferson knew it is made possible by a contribution from David M. Rubenstein and other donors.
4. Barbara B. Oberg, ed., “From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown, 5 April 1797,” The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 29, 1 March 1796 – 31 December 1797 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 345–346.
5. Cornelia J. Randolph to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, July 6, 1828. (ViU: Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge Correspondence). Published in “Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters,” Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., http://tjrs.monticello.org, 2015.
6. Virginia Jefferson Randolph (Trist) to Nicholas P. Trist, June 5, 1823. (NcU: NPT). Published in “Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters,” at Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., http://tjrs.monticello.org, 2015.
7. Harriet Taylor Upton, Our Early Presidents: their wives and children (
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