Manufacturing in America isn’t easy. But Steinway & Sons, a 150-year-old company based in New York City, is a rare bright spot and example of how domestic producers can survive.

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QUEENS, N.Y. - It’s a symphony of manufacturing on the production line at the historic Steinway & Sons piano factory once again. For 150 years, pianos handcrafted to withstand the test of time have ...

N, Q at Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. The old Steinway Village surrounding the factory once featured schools, post offices, and shops. Many of these buildings are still standing; the original workers' ...

Deep in the basement of the Steinway Piano factory on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, a man presses his thumb to a small biometric scanner attached to the wall in a darkened hallway next to a ...

I first heard of photographer Christopher Payne through his work in Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. In the early 1980s, my mother was a social worker in the now abandoned ...

Steinways are often referred to as the Rolls Royce of pianos. The company has a more than 150 year old history that began on Varrick Street in Manhattan’s West Village. Steinway and Sons was founded ...

One of the most famous Queens residents of any century was William Steinway, the German-born piano maker who made his namesake piano one of the most famous musical instruments of all time. In the ...

John Paulson has a plan for the historic Steinway piano factory in Queens — and it involves sharing some of the premises with Robert De Niro. The billionaire hedge-fund mogul — who scooped up Steinway ...

Steinway & Sons’ piano factory in Astoria, Queens is one of the city’s great hidden gems, where 250 workers are still meticulously handcrafting the world’s most acclaimed pianos since the 1870s. It is ...