SoHo, NYC is a fashionable shopping district with many boutiques and restaurants.
Broadway, West Broadway, Prince St, and Spring St are the main shopping streets, but the side streets are filled with upscale boutiques.
Chanel
Madison Avenue, Upper East Side
57th Street, Midtown
SoHo
Louis Vuitton
MIDTOWN EAST, SOHO & BATTERY PARK CITY, NYC ~ The flagship store is the one in Midtown at Fifth and 57th
La Perla
803 Madison Avenue
Upper East Side
434 West Broadway
SoHo
Desigual
GARMENT DISTRICT & SOHO Bold style
Zara
NEW YORK CITY ~ The world’s biggest clothing retailer, a leader in fast fashion, has eleven stores in the City
Drawing Center
Wednesday-Sunday
SOHO, NYC ~ New York City’s museum of drawings
Bloomingdale’s
UPPER EAST SIDE FLAGSHIP, UPPER WEST SIDE OUTLET, SOHO, Mon, November 5, 2018 ~ Holiday window reveal at the Flagship store
SoHo is Grand
The neighborhood was the first free Black community in Manhattan. It began to grow in the mid-1800s. Manufacturers moved in after the U.S. Civil War (1860-1865). The area declined after World War II.
In the 1960s, Robert Moses, one of the main architects of modern New York City (Triborough Bridge, FDR, West Side Highway, Cross-Bronx Expressway), planned to run two highways through the neighborhood from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges on the East Side. The community fought back and ended the reign of Robert Moses.
In the 1970s, artists began building illegal lofts in the largely abandoned neighborhood. Art galleries soon followed and the neighborhood gentrified. The pioneering artists were grandfathered in the 1980s. In search of cheap rent and a Bohemian lifestyle, the art world mostly moved on to the East Village, then Williamsburg, and then Berlin, Germany. SoHo is still an art district, but mostly for commercial art popular with tourists.