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In the following show, the gilded gentleman Carl Raymond and Bowery boys tour guide Aaron Shilky give you a fascinating tour of the Manhattan neighborhood of NoHo, the blocks

between Astor Place and Houston Street, chock full of fascinating history.

But let's get this out of the way.

Most of the figures you'll hear about at today's show never called it NoHo, which means

north of Houston, and was a term first used in the late 1970s as a way to classify

these very historical blocks that were undergoing a cultural change that was a little bit different

from what was happening in the East Village or Gredditch Village or of course Soho.

What's great is that this is a neighborhood that's just small enough to explore in one afternoon.

Maybe while listening to this fascinating episode of the Gilded Gentleman, which was released earlier this year.

Enjoy.

Enjoy. Hello, I'm Carl Raymond, the host of the Gilded Gentleman History podcast, where every two weeks we delve into worlds light and dark in America's Gilded Age, France's Belle-Puc

and England's late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

New York certainly has its share of famous and iconic neighborhoods that have each played a role

in the city's 400-year-old history.

Greenwich Village is perhaps the most famous as the heart of a bohemian culture in the 50s and 60s following its 19th century home to some of the city's wealthy and cultural elite.

But there is one neighborhood found east of the village's great Washington Square Park that holds many keys and insights to the world that just preceded the great gilded age and indeed played a leading role in fueling it.

The area known today as Noho, a sister neighborhood to the famed Soho, which lies just to

itself, was once land owned by the Astor family dynasty and where so much of the great

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