SoHo
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SoHo is bound by Lafayette Street to Houston and Houston and Canal Street, its name is an acronym for “south of Houston”. SoHo is a boutique-lined, extremely crowded, developed, rejuvenated, rented and co-oped neighborhood in Manhattan. So what makes this neighborhood so varied, forever changing and inventive?
In the 1840s, the area of SoHo was the center of Manhattan nightlife, with more bars and brothels than anywhere else in the city. As Manhattan’s center moved uptown, the bars and brothels shut down until SoHo was known as “hell’s hundred acres”, full of sweatshops and small factories in the daytime and empty at night. SoHo remained a wasteland until the mid-20th century when artists began moving into the abandoned buildings and creating live/work residences.
By 1968 artists and activists were forming an organization to legalize their live/work residences. So they found a name for their area after looking at a city Planning Commission map, which described the area as “South of Houston”, which shortened to SoHo. By 1973 the area received landmark designation as the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District.
Throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s more and more artists were living and working in SoHo bringing people downtown again. Soon boutiques cropped up and galleries. Gentrification of abandoned areas soon became known as the “SoHo Effect” and can be seen all over the country and New York in neighborhoods like TriBeCa, Chelsea, Williamsburg and DUMBO.
Today, many artists are no longer able to live in SoHo because of the rent and have since moved to TriBeCa, Williamsburg or DUMBO. Current notable residents include John Mayer, Sofia Coppola and Boy George. Despite the huge move-in, move-out and move-back-in of artists in and throughout SoHo, it still houses some of the greatest galleries in America, SoHo Rep is one of the most cutting edge and best Off-Broadway Theaters in New York and its cobblestone streets still evoke imagination and the long history we all love about New York.
