This is Barry Boy's After Dark, history with a side of spice.

Today's show will feature discussions of adult playgrounds of a mature nature.

Now it won't get too far into the specifics, but needless to say,

parental guidance is suggested.

But first, let's talk about a farm.

William Earl Dodge Stokes had a farm, a most unusual farm.

Despite being a gentleman engaged in real estate and dalliances with chorus girls,

Stokes personally attended to his little farm and its extraordinary collection of farm animals,

hundreds of chickens, goats, pigs, geese with clipped wings, and even at one point a small domesticated bear.

This farm was not at his Kentucky horse ranch, where he raised prize-winning thoroughbreds,

nor was it out in the New York countryside, rapidly disappearing by the start of the 20th century.

This racquet and mostly illegal animal farm was raised more than 180 feet off the ground,

on a rooftop which overlooked both the Hudson River and the rising city of apartment buildings and office towers.

For farmer Stokes had placed his little farm, a top and architectural marvel,

a glamorous home from music, scandal, and sex, a place called the Ensenia.

Hi there, welcome to the Barry Boys.

This is Greg Young, just solo today, and starting the new year by looking at the peculiarity

of one old and famous apartment building on the Upper West Side.

The New York generally speaking tends to attract a profound and eccentric mix of people,

and when you put that mix of personalities into an old, lived-in apartment building,

with its own unusual quirks, you create a very unique world,

a building that's almost like a collection of short stories.

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