
Independent Projects Spotlight: Here There Be Dragons
Recent recipients of The Architectural League and NYSCA’s Independent Projects grants present their work.The Architectural League of NY
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Jun 30, 2025 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: How deep foundations shape the skyline It’s easy to go about your day without ever thinking about the bedrock our buildings, streets, and parks rest on. However, geology shapes our city in surprising and important ways. Learning about what’s underneath SoHo provides a deeper understanding of what influences the buildings in the […]
May 2, 2025 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
If you walk by 555 Broadway, you will notice the name “Charles Broadway Rouss” emblazoned across its façade.
Mar 3, 2025 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: A look back at P.T. Barnum’s career in the neighborhood
Oct 1, 2024 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: The fascinating story of the iconic Haughwout Emporium at 488 Broadway
Jul 29, 2024 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: A Look Back at SoHo Broadway and Bloomingdales
Jun 29, 2024 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: A legacy of legal protection for SoHo’s artists lofts
Apr 1, 2024 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: Thinking about our pastoral past
Nov 1, 2023 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: The Rise of Minimalism and Loft Jazz in SoHo
Sep 1, 2023 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: Looking back at 591 and 593 Broadway, a mismatched pair
Jun 1, 2022 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
SoHo Broadway History: Looking back on the life and death of SoHo’s trade businesses within one building on Broadway
Feb 2, 2020 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
A look beyond the boundary of the original designated SoHo Cast Iron Historic District
Nov 3, 2019 | By Yukie Ohta
The 12-story Little Singer Building at 561 Broadway is not really that little
Aug 30, 2019 | By Yukie Ohta
Learn more about John Jacob Astor’s Haughwout Building.
Jun 30, 2019 | By Yukie Ohta
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…
Feb 26, 2019 | By Yukie Ohta
When you think of the SoHo Broadway streetscape, you think of cast iron, water towers, street lights and maybe even vault lights, but what about Belgian blocks?
Jan 30, 2019 | By Yukie Ohta
If you walk along Broadway from Canal to Houston Street, you will see many charming old-fashioned lampposts along the way. They are replicas of Bishops Crook cast iron lampposts that were common in New York City in the early 20th century. Named for the staff carried by high-ranking clerics, a garland motif winds around a […]
Jan 15, 2019 | By Yukie Ohta
Look up. Look way up! Although they may look like remnants from New York’s past, 99% of the water towers in SoHo, including those along SoHo Broadway, are still in use and they are still being manufactured locally by two New York City companies that fabricate and maintain these cherished gems from SoHo’s skyline.
Nov 28, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
Have you ever wondered why some buildings in SoHo have “HOLLOW SIDEWALK” or “VAULTED SIDEWALK” signs posted on their facades?
Oct 31, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
There are approximately 250 cast iron buildings in New York City, most of them in SoHo and mostly built from the mid-1800’s through the late 1800’s.
Sep 29, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
Have you noticed the subtle artwork that can be found along the Prince Street station’s walls?
Aug 23, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
Balthazar at 80 Spring Street (a.k.a. 524 Broadway) SoHo Broadway Community Keith McNally, the British restauranteur, opened Balthazar in 1997 when SoHo still had a slight patina of grunge left on it. This was especially true for the area east of Broadway, where Balthazar has been packing in crowds night after night for over two […]
Aug 7, 2018 | By SoHo Broadway Initiative
The St. Nicholas Hotel, on the west side of Broadway between Spring and Broome Streets, was a hotel like nothing New York City had seen before.
Jun 28, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
SoHo has long been known for its art galleries, but did you know that Broadway was once home to three major art museums, all on the same block, between Houston and Prince Street?
Jun 8, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
If there is any place in SoHo that could be called a town square or a community center, it would be the Housing Works Bookstore Café at 126 Crosby Street (also known as the rear address of 594 Broadway).
May 8, 2018 | By Yukie Ohta
Featured countless times in tourism and commercial photography and famously in the opening credits of the hit television show NYPD Blue, the DKNY billboard, one of the first to dot the outskirts of SoHo, became a quasi-New York City landmark.
Jul 16 | Culture
Recent recipients of The Architectural League and NYSCA’s Independent Projects grants present their work.The Architectural League of NY
Jul 19 | Culture
The Gotham Pulp Collectors Club (July 2025) at the Mulberry Street Branch NYPL
Jul 19 | Culture
Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years Grey Art Museum, NYU
Jul 24 | Community
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
Aug 2 | Culture
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents Charles Hinman: Paper Matters, 1980s
Aug 18 | Culture
SoHo Events IN-PERSON Write Now! A Writers’ Collective at the Mulberry Street Branch NYPL
Aug 24 | Culture
CLOSING: The Monkey King in Chinatown: Illustrated Journeys of a Chinese Legend in NYC, August 24, 2025 In celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month comes this group exhibition inspired by the mythical Chinese folk hero, the Monkey King, and curated by acclaimed graphic novel artist Jerry Ma. The epitome of tricksterdom, the Monkey King (more […]
Aug 30 | Culture
Yuji Agematsu at 101 Spring Street in New York at Judd Foundation
Independent Projects Spotlight: Here There Be Dragons
By The Architectural League and the Urban Design Forum
The Gotham Pulp Collectors Club at Mulberry St Library
By Mulberry Street Branch NYPL
Closing-Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years
By Grey Art Museum, NYU
Manhattan Community Board No. 2 – Meeting July 24, 2025
By Manhattan Community Board No. 2