 During the next 15 years of his leadership, he kept a home in Braunschweig and traveled often between Germany and the United States.Around 1870–80, William Steinway (born Wilhelm Steinweg, a son of Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) established a professional community, the company town "Steinway Village", in what is now the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.Steinway Village was built as its own town, and included a new factory (still used today) with its own foundry and sawmill, houses for employees, kindergarten, lending library, post office, volunteer fire department, and parks.