SoHo Broadway News Roundup for August 2026
Aug 3, 2026 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
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 and SoHo or issues relevant to neighborhood improvement districts like ours. What’s been happening over the past month? Read on!
- 7/6/26 – Report: Congestion Pricing Had No Impact on Parking Availability (Streetsblog NYC)
- 7/9/26 – Big Business Is Leasing Record Office Space in Mamdani’s New York (The City Reporter)
- 7/9/26 – Palermo Argentinian Bistro opens third New York City location in Soho (AMNY)
- 7/10/26 – Congestion Pricing Has Pulled Roughly 140,000 Vehicles a Day Off Manhattan Streets (Apollo)
- 7/10/26 – ‘Backyard Baseball’ to celebrate launch of new game with immersive Soho pop-up (AMNY)
- 7/12/26 – NYPD raids illegal NYC vendors again7/12/26 – NYPD raids illegal NYC vendors again—but Canal Street businesses say it won’t change a thing (New York Post)
- but Canal Street businesses say it won’t change a thing (New York Post)
- 7/14/26 – ‘Unsafe Disaster’: New Yorkers Ask Mamdani Charter Panel To Cut Street Redesign Red Tape (Streetsblog NYC)
- 7/14/26 – Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins (Gothamist)
- 7/14/26 – Fashion Meets Wellness: Herbalife and FIFA 1904 Launch Immersive Fashion, Soccer and Wellness Experience in New York City’s SoHo (Business Wire)
- 7/16/26 – Inside restaurateur Keith McNally’s eclectic SoHo apartment where New York charm meets European art
(House & Garden)
- 7/18/26 – Wild storms in NYC: ‘Life-threatening’ floods, intense winds, a tornado possible Saturday (Gothamist)
- 7/18/26 – Shocking video shows streets of Soho underwater as NYC is hit with heavy rain and flash flooding (New York Post)
- 7/19/26 – Flash flooding in NYC impacts restaurants, cancels concerts after severe storms sweep through (CBS News)
- 7/21/26 – With Another Storm On the Way, Businesses Brace for More Flooding (The New York Times)
- 7/21/26 – Former Mets ace strikes neighborhood peak with $26M Soho flip (The Real Deal)
- 7/22/26 – Op-ed: New York finally has a plan to make Canal Street safer (Crain’s New York Business)
- 7/22/26 – Prices Rise in 32 of NYC’s Leading Neighborhoods as City and Manhattan Hit Record Highs (Property Shark)
- 7/23/26 – Which NYC neighborhoods top the most expensive list of the year thus far? The devil is in the details. (AMNY)
- 7/23/26 – The Final Days of the Soho REI (Curbed)
- 7/23/26 – Selene and the chef behind SoHo’s Greek moonlight (AMNY)
- 7/25/26 – Saying Farewell to R.E.I.’s Beloved New York City Storefront (The New York Times)
- 7/25/26 – The New York of the Past is Still Visible Today (The New York Times)
- 7/26/26 – LPC to Review Revised Plans for 21-Story Tower at 277 Canal Street in Soho, Manhattan (New York YIMBY)
- 7/27/26 – NYC’s top deals: Soho condo trades for $26M (The Real Deal)
- 7/28/26 – Demolition Progresses at 419-421 Broadway in Soho, Manhattan (New York YIMBY)
- 7/28/26 – Arax gets going on Soho offices makeover (CoStar)
- 7/28/26 – NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal (Tribeca Citizen)
- 7/29/26 – Landmarks approves largest Soho new dev since rezoning (The Real Deal)
- 7/30/26 – A New York Hair Salon, Happily Stuck in 1986 (The New York Times)
- 7/30/26 – The Best Clothing Stores in New York (The New York Times)
- 7/31/26 – Brandy Melville lays off TikTok star Allegra Pinkowitz from Soho store despite drawing throngs of tweens
(New York Post)
- 8/1/26 – LPC to Review Proposal for 20-Story Tower at 257 Canal Street in Soho, Manhattan (New York YIMBY)
- 8/1/26 – NYC Summer Streets returns to Manhattan for 1st of 3 weekends (CBS News)
