soho

"south of houston street" flows north from canal street between the hudson river and lafayette st. the ultimate urban gentrification story, soho was a rundown industrial area until the 1960s, when artists began inhabiting its spacious and then-cheap lofts. After the artists came the galleries, then the celebrities, then the shoppers, and now the visitors. filled with gorgeous cast-iron architecture (greene street especially), soho is a great shopping and dining destination, even if many of the artists have moved on.