Manhattan Community Board No. 2 – Meeting May 15, 2025
Manhattan Community Board #2 Manhattan is one of the first community boards to be established in the early 1960’s. One of Soho Broadway Community Neighborhood Resources
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If you walk by 555 Broadway, you will notice the name “Charles Broadway Rouss” emblazoned across its façade.
SoHo Broadway History: Merry Melodies for Happy Holidays
SoHo Broadway History: The fascinating story of the iconic Haughwout Emporium at 488 Broadway
SoHo Broadway History: Thinking about our pastoral past
SoHo Broadway History: This Black History Month we look back on SoHo’s legacy as an African American community
SoHo Broadway History: The Rise of Minimalism and Loft Jazz in SoHo
SoHo Broadway History: Manhattan’s north-south artery was originally a historic path known as the Wickquasgeck Trail, predating European colonization.
SoHo Broadway History: Exploring the area’s 20th century history as a nexus of automotive service businesses
Visions of a Greener SoHo
SoHo Broadway History: A look back and look forward at efforts to bring more trees and plantings to the neighborhood
SoHo Broadway History: This Black History Month we look back on SoHo’s legacy as an African American community
SoHo Broadway History: Petrosino Square is small but packed with history and is one of the few public realm oases serving our district
SoHo Broadway History: Looking back on the stylistic origins of SoHo’s iconic architecture
This month, the Initiative looks back on the many lives lived and showcased in 485 Broadway, at one time deemed a ‘temple of Thespis’ by the New York Herald.
SoHo Broadway History: Trails to Transit
SoHo Broadway History: Land use and its regulation through the years
SoHo Broadway History: 2004 subway art installation still resonates today
SoHo Broadway History: Merry Melodies for Happy Holidays
SoHo Broadway History: Surveying Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living, 38 years later
SoHo Broadway History: shady dealings and crimes at district landmark
SoHo Broadway History: Empty streets for the first time in decades
SoHo Broadway History: How a Yellow Fever outbreak changed Manhattan’s landscape
A look beyond the boundary of the original designated SoHo Cast Iron Historic District
This month we take a look at one of SoHo Broadway’s smaller buildings, but with a unique charm all its own.
Learn more about John Jacob Astor’s Haughwout Building.
Dean & Deluca, the high-end food purveyor at the corner of Broadway and Prince Street, opened in 1973 as The Cheese Store at 120 Prince Street (between Greene and Wooster). In 1977, Giorgio DeLuca…
