We've got one more new Barry Boyz podcast for 2021, and it's a doozy.

So look out for that one next week.

But for today, we wanted to give you another sampling of our new spin-off podcast

called The Guilded Gentlemen hosted by Social and Culinary Historian, Carl Raymond.

In the newest episode of The Guilded Gentlemen, Carl looks at one of the most legendary figures of the period.

Caroline Astor or V Mrs. Astor, the ruler and creator of New York's Gilded Age High Society.

And if you head over and subscribe to The Guilded Gentlemen Now, you'll get another new episode

on the life of Murray Hall, a Tammany Hall politician and an operator of an employment agency

for domestic help in the late 19th century. But Murray had a secret.

One that he took to his grave, it's an incredible story really moving.

I really love this episode, and Carl is joined by Ken Lusbater of the LGBT Historic Sites Project

to discuss Murray's life.

So go subscribe to Carl's show The Guilded Gentlemen immediately after listening to this one.

And as for the episode that you're about to hear right now,

Carl is joined by a very, very special guest.

Somebody who may be familiar to you if you're a hardcore lover of New York City architectural history.

So enjoy the show and have a great New York week.

The real Mrs. Astor, ruler or rebel.

Caroline Astor, known just as Mrs. Astor, has often been thought of hands down as the most

well-known and powerful person in Guilded Age society. She ruled with an iron fist clad

in a soft calf skin glove from Paris, of course.

With a wave of her bejeweled hand, you were either in or you were out.

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