Alister Greene

Alister Greene (September 28, 1854 – March 8, 1923) He was the son of Martin E. Greene (1826–1907) and Matilda Mary (née Zabriskie) Greene (d. 1898),

His maternal grandparents were Mary (née Ryerson) Zabriskie and Andrew Christian Zabriskie, and the Zabriskie family descended from Albrycht Zaborowski, a Polish immigrant from Angerburg (Węgorzewo) in Ducal Prussia, who settled in New Jersey in 1662 alongside a Dutch community. His cousin, Andrew Christian Zabriskie was married to Frances Hunter in 1895, and Alister served as best man. Another cousin, Eliot Zborowski, was married to Margaret Astor Carey, a niece of William Astor Jr., Caroline Astor, and granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Sr. of the prominent Astor family.

He was a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School. which was referred to as the "silk stocking" regiment or "Blue-Bloods", due to the disproportionate number of its members who were part of New York City's social elite,

Society life In 1892, Greene, who was well known in the "New York club and society worlds," Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

He was a member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, serving on its executive committee, a life member of the New-York Historical Society (since 1896), and was a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Club, the University Club, the Army and Navy Club, the New York Yacht Club, and the American Bar Association. His funeral was held at the Church of the Incarnation on Madison Avenue. A month after his death, the heirs of his and his later father's estates sold the East 72nd Street properties. In November 1923, his estate sold additional property owned by Greene at 102 Franklin Street (in the modern neighborhood of Tribeca) which consisted of a five-story and basement building on a lot of 25 by 100 feet.