SoHo Broadway News Roundup for September 2026

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!

• 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)
• 8/1/26 – She Did That hosting annual Black Business Month Experience in SoHo (CBS News)
• 8/2/26 – The Quirky, Luxurious and Stylish Cannabis Dispensaries of New York (New York Times)
• 8/4/26 – NYC art gallery sues landlord for $1M and lease termination—for banning indoor cigar smoking (New York Post)
• 8/4/26 – Trash bins are turning the tide in NYC’s ‘War on Rats’ (1010 WINS)
• 8/5/26 – Fashionphile to Host Three-Day SoHo Pop-Up Event (Women’s Wear Daily)
• 8/7/26 – A Nearly 200-Year-Old SoHo Landmark Has Been Reimagined as a New Dining Destination (Whatnow)
• 8/7/26 – US seizes another massive haul of fake luxury watches headed for NY and worth $43M if real (New York Post)
• 8/11/26 – After bitter Elizabeth Street Garden saga, is an ‘amicable resolution’ in sight? (Gothamist)
• 8/12/26 – Famous NYC pizza chain’s unique method for recreating local flavor anywhere in North America (New York Post)
• 8/13/26 – Age of Stones to Open Flagship NYC Storefront in SoHo (Whatnow)
• 8/13/26 – Manhattan residents who tasted NYC’s trash revolution want their street bins back (Gothamist)
• 8/17/26 – From Greenpoint merchants to Chinatown lights: Where NYC’s $8.4M small-business grants are going (AMNY)
• 8/18/26 – Neko Health opening first US clinic in NYC this September and already has a 25,000 person waitlist (New York Post)
• 8/18/26 – New York City distributes $8.4M for business districts and neighborhood improvements (New York Business Journal)
• 8/19/26 – Neopets bring Y2K to NYC with limited-time pop-up this weekend (Yahoo!)
• 8/20/26 – Designer’s ‘Brutalist’-Like SoHo Penthouse Sells for $6.35 Million (Mansion Global)
• 8/21/26 – Nonprofit Blank Forms to Move Into a New Space in SoHo This Fall (ArtForum)
• 8/24/26 – A Fashion Designer’s Art-Filled Artist’s Loft in SoHo, NYC (Yahoo!)
• 8/24/26 – NYC’s top deals: Digital entrepreneur Elliot Tebele sells Soho townhouse for $15M (The Real Deal)
• 8/25/26 – MAC Cosmetics inks deal for SoHo store at 579 Broadway (The Real Deal)
• 8/25/26 – NYC street vendors set to receive new permits under first expansion in decades (Gothamist)
• 8/25/26 – Lenders move to foreclose on SoHo property once leased to Amazon (Crain’s New York Business)
• 8/26/26 – Developer plans to raze Claes Oldenburg’s former Broome Street workspace (New York Business Journal)
• 8/28/26 – Hypegolf Clubhouse Brought a Serious Game-Improvement Setup to SoHo (Hypebeast)