SoHo Broadway News Roundup: April 2025

SoHo Broadway News: A selection of relevant articles from the past month

For the benefit of our stakeholders, the SoHo Broadway Initiative is providing a monthly curated collection of recent news articles about the district, neighborhood or issues relevant to business improvement districts like ours. What’s been happening over the past month? Read on!:

• 3/4/25 – Ken Burns pleads with Prada to not ‘rip the soul out of Soho’ by taking over Lure Fishbar (Page Six)
• 3/4/25 – How does it feel to be involuntarily committed? NY advocates condemn Gov. Hochul plan (Gothamist)
• 3/5/25 – Cher thanks volunteers at ‘God’s Love We Deliver’ in NYC (WABC)
• 3/12/25 – Ray-Ban to Open Global Flagship at SoHo’s 62 Prince Street (Commercial Observer)
• 3/16/25 – DAs in NYC train retailers on bail reform workaround that can land shoplifters in jail (Gothamist)
• 3/17/25 – SoHo-based startup helps a new generation put down the nicotine (Crain’s)
• 3/19/25 – Foot Traffic Data Shows New Yorkers Aren’t Avoiding Manhattan After Congestion Pricing (Streetsblog)
• 3/25/25 – Nonprofit community organizations rally against Sanitation Department’s containerization mandate (NY1)
• 3/25/25 – “Con-job disaster”: Tal Alexander, Official sued over Soho penthouse rental (The Real Deal)
• 3/25/25 – Business Groups mobilize behind Hochul’s reforms to evidence-sharing laws (Crain’s)
• 3/25/25 – New DSNY Trash Collection Rule “Could Result in Dirtier Streets,” Warn BIDs and Community Leaders (W42ST)
• 3/26/25 – Australian Beauty Brand Comes to SoHo for NYC Headquarters (Connect CRE)
• 3/26/25 – French chef dies after paying $210K deposit to open NYC restaurant — and ‘heartless’ landlord refuses refund to widow (New York Post)
• 3/26/25 – The SoHo loft visited by Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada is on the market for $8.95 million – it epitomizes chic NYC living (Yahoo!)
• 3/27/25 – Gawker Founder Nick Denton Is Selling His N.Y.C. Condo for $3.5 Million (Robb Report)
• 3/28/25 – Inside NYC’s Smallest Store, Dr. Silkman’s in SoHo (Untapped New York)
• 3/28/25 – Step inside fashion influencer Xenia Adonts’ perfectly tranquil Soho loft (Vogue)