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April 1, 2014

Revisit Jackie O.’s Glorious, Chic New York Years

By Erica Schwiegershausen

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Images of Jackie Onassis are practically ubiquitous: making the rounds with her husband in pillbox hats, attending state dinners in elbow-length white gloves, or entertaining in her signature strands of pearls. But a new book, New York Jackie, out this month, celebrates some of the lesser-known moments in her life, from the three decades she lived in Manhattan, where she moved in 1964 after JFK’s assassination. She lived on Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and divided her time between New Jersey, Greece, Paris, and Martha’s Vineyard.

Following the death of her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, in 1975, Jackie began working as an editor, first at Viking Press and later at Doubleday, where she would be remembered for her subtle fashion sense and quick wit. “One day in the elevator at Doubleday, a fellow passenger looked at her and exclaimed, ‘You are Jackie Onassis,’” fellow editor Nan Talese recalls in the book’s introduction. “Without a beat, she responded, ‘No I’m not.’ This was typical of her. And she had a brilliant, and rather wicked, sense of humor.”

Click through the slideshow for a look back at the later years of Jackie’s life, from bike rides in Central Park to window-shopping at Chanel.

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1965 With Indira Gandhi at a photographic exhibit about the life of Jawaharlal Nehru. Photo: New York Daily News Archive/1965/Daily News, L.P. (... 1965 With Indira Gandhi at a photographic exhibit about the life of Jawaharlal Nehru. Photo: New York Daily News Archive/1965/Daily News, L.P. (New York)
1967 At JFK Airport. Photo: Hulton Archive/2005 Getty Images
1970 At the Chanel boutique.
1970 At Bonwit Teller.
1970 With John Jr. in Central Park.
1970 In Manhattan.
1971 On Madison Avenue. Photo: Ron Galella
1975 At Viking Press. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt./Time Life Pictures
1978 At the International Center of Photography.
1979 At the Met Costume Institute Gala.
1984 Walking in Manhattan on the Fourth of July.
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