What happened to the beautiful high society mansions of New York City?
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Most have been replaced by office buildings or apartment houses. A few (eg. Frick & Morgan) became museums. Some became retail stores.
Actually, there’s a lot of the old architecture still around. Mansions as we think of them today wouldn’t have existed for the wealthiest New Yorkers in the late 19th Century, when there was a lot of high society. Some of them have been razed, but a lot of wealthy families (the Rockefellers, for instance) built nice houses in midtown Manhattan as the city developed northward. Some of these are still around but have been repurposed.
There’s a stretch along Prospect Park West in Brooklyn that was once called the “Gold Coast” as many wealthy families built houses there, many of which are still standing.
they all turned to high rises
there are a bunch in Riverdale, in the Bronx.