The legendary Bowery Boys podcast released a new episode all about NoHo’s unique role as the birthplace of the Gilded Age, and all the glamour, greed, and even murder that came along with it. Our neighborhood was one of the first destinations for wealthy New Yorkers in the early 1800s looking to escape the crowds of Lower Manhattan, and this podcast dives deep into it. Read more and access the podcast here.
“Today’s New York neighborhood called NoHo, wedged between Greenwich Village and the East Village, holds many captivating stories from the 19th century, and the tales of many people and places that then went on to become associated with the Gilded Age.
The Astor family began their dynasty here in both investment and real estate as did the well-known Dutch-American merchant family the Schermerhorns.
Caroline Schermerhorn, who became the famed Mrs. Astor, grew up right here on Bond Street along with many members of her family.
NoHo today still contains many remnants of its early 19th-century glamorous past and sites where the tensions between the wealthy residents of the Lafayette Place neighborhood clashed with the growing immigrant population just one street away on the Bowery.”
