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The Social Order For a time, I lived in a women-only hotel—the Brandon, on West 85th Street, which closed in 2017. Women-only hotels are rare today, but cities once abounded with this kind of institution, meant for young women who came to a big city and needed somewhere “respectable” to stay. The Brandon was originally built for the Three Arts Club in 1927. Its opening was reported in the newspapers and supported by the great and good of the city. The library (long gone by the time I live...

Julian Fellowes, the creator of "Downton Abbey," has set his new HBO series in  America. "The Gilded Age," a 10-episode historical drama, takes place during the late 19th century. Filming took place in the Sleepy Hollow area in November. According to an HBO release, the series is set in 1882 during a period of immense economic change; huge fortunes were made in the era coined "The Gilded Age." Many of those fortunes were used to build lavish estates in the Hudson Valley, including todays...