Manhattan Community Board No. 2 – Meeting April 23, 2026
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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The Community Corner, a guide to the not for profits and organizations in and around SoHo Broadway.
The Community Corner, a guide to the not for profits and organizations in and around SoHo Broadway.
The Community Corner, a guide to the not for profits and organizations in and around SoHo Broadway.
The Community Corner, a guide to the not for profits and organizations in and around SoHo Broadway.
The Initiative’s Executive Director is among the new fellows of the Urban Design Forum
The Community Corner, a guide to the not for profits and organizations in and around SoHo Broadway.
Author Aaron Shkuda shares the dramatic story of how SoHo became SoHo
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…
Envision SoHo-Noho Presentation of Preliminary Recommendations
Workshop #4 will focus on sharing tools and options to address goals that emerged from previous events.
Workshop #2 will focus on living in the neighborhood, challenges of renting/owning, future of housing & live/work.
Topic: Mixing it Up (non-residential + residential)
Workshop #2 will focus on living in the neighborhood, challenges of renting/owning, future of housing & live/work.
It all started with a skirt, hoop skirt to be exact.
Long before P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum (1810 – 1891) founded his famous three-ring circus, he opened an “instructive entertainment” venue called Barnum’s American Museum in 1842 on Broadway at Ann Street.
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…
What do P.T. Barnum, Boss Tweed, and Foursquare have in common?
There was once a time when SoHo was threatened with becoming a victim of the City’s ambitious urban renewal efforts.
Have you ever noticed the beautiful, intricate design carved into the sidewalk at the northwest corner of Broadway at Prince Street in front of the Prada store, one of the most heavily trafficked corners in New York City?
The corner of Broadway and Houston Street, where two of New York’s major thoroughfares intersect, has gone through many changes since it was first settled in the early 1800’s.
The Roosevelt Building, located at 478 Broadway (between Broome and Grand), was built in 1874 and designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt. It is said to be one of the most significant cast iron buildings in the world.
Believe it or not, Canal Street was not only once an actual canal, but it was also the northernmost border of New York City.
Who would ever know that the unassuming yet grand buildings at 537 and 541 Broadway, unified by a homogenous façade design, were once the epicenter of modern dance in SoHo?
Part of ‘A Look Back at SoHo’s Broadway’ Series – SoHo Neighborhood Guide
