Moving to New York for his wife permanently ended Emanuel Moses’s working life

Evidence

In order to move he had to sell his store and his real estate holdings. In 1897, he was forty-six years old, a businessman who had achieved success and who had seemed to be heading for more. Moreover, he had liked running his store. He was a businessman who enjoyed being in business. He was to spend the rest of his life in retirement. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 128