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Famously memorialized as the Amazon Hotel in Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar, the Barbizon also hosted the likes of Grace Kelly and Liza Minnelli, Peggy Noonan, and future First Lady Nancy Reagan. However, by 1980 it was one of only three hotels for women operating in the city. Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times/Redux
New York City

No Boys Allowed: NYC’s Women-Only Hotels

Were they a haven, an escape from male predation, a control of women’s sexuality—or all three?

Gardening

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Julie Reiner, New York City's 'cocktail queen'. Photo by Daniel Krieger
Food & Drink

Julie Reiner, NYC’s Cocktail Queen

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First Person

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History Lessons

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DP Books

Excerpt: A Small Affair
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After Hours

Speakeasies 2023

Sometimes you want to go where absolutely nobody knows your name.

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Trends

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Manners

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GLAMSQUAD

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Performers at Fool’s Delight, a new circus extravaganza in the UK. Photo courtesy of Fool’s Delight
Night Out

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Beauty

The Vampire Breast Lift

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The Heartland

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Gala Productions Founder, Alexandra Lind Rose, and President, James Hallquist with their Event Truck
Paid Post

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An illustration of a man in coattails and a top hat by Marc Luc in 1923
From the Archives

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Robot Heart at Central Park
Rave On

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1920s French couple embracing. Could she be his mistress?
After Hours

A LOOK BACK: SECRETS OF A MISTRESS

When it comes to being the “other woman”, has anything really changed since the 1920s?

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