SoHo Broadway News Roundup: 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 neighborhood improvement districts like ours. What’s been happening over the past month? Read on!:

• 5/1/25 – Korean Skin Care Company Skin1004 Opening First U.S. Store in SoHo (Commercial Observer)
• 5/3/25 – Organic growth spurt: NYC Sanitation composting is a big success (New York Daily News)
• 5/5/25 – Decades-old street vendor limits face elimination, alarming retailers (Crain’s)
• 5/6/25 – Tishman Speyer Under Contract to Buy SoHo Office Building for $180M (Commercial Observer)
• 5/6/25 – The City Council Wants to Finall Fix NYC’s Broken Street Vendor System, Again (Hell Gate)
• 5/6/25 – NYC offers technical support to eligible small businesses (PIX 11)
• 5/7/25 – City Councilmembers consider legislation to lift cap on vendor licenses (NY1)
• 5/7/25 – Burlesque and blood: Joe Coleman’s ‘Carnival’ opens with a road in SoHo (AMNY)
• 5/8/25 – The Best Restaurants in SoHo, According to Eater Editors (Eater)
• 5/9/25 – Where Christo and Jeanne-Claude Cast Their Spells (New York Times)
• 5/11/25 – Los Angeles Apparel to Open First NYC Store at 480 Broadway (New York Post)
• 5/12/25 – How New Yorkers Are Adjusting to Congestion Pricing (New York Times)
• 5/13/25 – A New York Restaurant Institution Gets Its Own Documentary (Eater)
• 5/14/25 – New York City Street Vendors Have Been Treated Poorly for 300 Years (Intelligencer)
• 5/14/25 – This garbage and rats walking tour explores the gross—and engrossing—history of NYC (Time Out)
• 5/15/25 – SoHo stabbing: Panhandlers’ argument leads to bloody assault near subway station (AMNY)
• 5/16/25 – From Coast to Coast, hello82 opens new headquarters in SoHo (AMNY)
• 5/16/25 – ‘Don’t Do new York Dirty’ Means ‘Don’t Litter’ (New York Times)
• 5/18/25 – NYC leads the pack in post-pandemic return to office (New York Post)
• 5/18/25 – SoHo gem 568 Broadway thriving despite Group Nine Media exit (New York Post)
• 5/19/25 – Why a SoHo Storefront Had Two Iconic Companies Willing to Pay Top Dollar (Commercial Observer)
• 5/19/25 – Public Art, Private Interests: The Evolution of SoHo through The Wall, NYC (Artefuse)
• 5/21/25 – Some NYC carters say sanitation overhaul threatens their livelihood (CBS New York)
• 5/21/25 – Pedestrian paradise: $400M 5th Avenue redesign to begin in 2028 (AMNY)
• 5/22/25 – The SoHo Loft That Mothered a Movement (Curbed)
• 5/22/25 – Longchamp’s Art-Infused SoHo Store has been Redesigned with Hospitality in Mind (Retail TouchPoints)
• 5/25/25 – SoHo Gallery Owner Louis Meisel Talks Art & Commerce (Dan’s Papers)
• 5/26/25 – The Travel Agency opens a new cannabis retail store in SoHo (AMNY)
• 5/26/25 – SoHo retail-leasing boom bolstering investment sales (New York Post)
• 5/27/25 – Officials say beatings, drugs, guns used in SoHo torture case, 2nd crypto suspect arraigned (ABC 7)
• 5/29/25 – Welcome to Tween Row (The Strategist)
• 5/29/25 – For $12M, a restored SoHo merchant hours with a rare historic authenticity (6sqft)
• 5/29/25 – NYPD places officers on modified duty amid SoHo crypto kidnapping investigation (Gothamist)
• 5/31/25 – NYC’s garbage fix is making problems (New York Daily News)
• 6/2/25 – The Next Phase of New York City’s ‘Trash Revolution’ is Here (New York Times)