Well, I've got a few recommendations for you. All you have to do is go back in time 128 years.
Entries from Free Lovyer's Directory of the Seraglios in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and All the Principal Cities in the Union, 1879-99
Miss Clara Gordon
No. 119 Mercer Street
"We cannot too highly recommend this house, the lady herself is a perfect Venus: beautiful, entertaining, and supremely seductive. Her aidesdecamp are really charming and irresistible, and altogether honest and honorable. Miss G. is a great belle, and her mansion is patronized by Southern merchants and planters principally. She is highly accomplished, skillful, and prudent, and sees her visitors are well entertained. Good wines of the most elaborate brands, constantly on hand, and in all, a finer resort cannot be found in the City."
Mrs. Bailey
No. 76 Greene Street, below Spring
"This quiet and comfortable resort is situated very central, and within a few moments' walk of Broadway and the principal hotels... Gents must come well recommended or they won't get in. . . The hostess is an agreeable lady, indued with a tasteful mind. . . Her young ladies behave with much prudence and propriety..."
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