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at the beginning of the Gilded Age New York's Elite Society was comprised of what were known as the 400 or the Patriarchs a list of people also referred to as the Knickerbockers by the likes of Washington Irving though it was said that they didn't like that name essentially they were considered old New York because they came from the Dutch and English settlers of the city whose families brought their wealth and aristocratic Heritage to the new world they later became known as old money when a new class of wealth-bearing individuals began showing up in New York at the end of the 1800s into the new 20th century and the queen of old New York Society was Mrs Caroline Astor commonly known as the Mrs Astor she and her High Society parties were equally famous and they were taking place long before the HBO series introduces us to the newly wealthy industrialist family the Russells who were actually the Vanderbilts of the time and who became known as the new money moving into town I did another