Exploring New York's SoHo

Exploring New York's SoHo

Exploring New York's SoHo

Exploring New York's SoHo

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Overview

SoHo, short for South of Houston," is one of New York's trendiest neighborhoods. Innovative restaurants and fashion-forward shops line Broome and Spring Streets, and artists reside above in modern lofts. But it is also part of the SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. Its beautiful old buildings hold stories of the neighborhood's fascinating history, urban decline and regeneration. It was once the center of New York's show business world and its most infamous red-light district. The richest and poorest Manhattanites walked these streets: John Jacob Astor, Harry Houdini, Aaron Burr and P.T. Barnum. Local authors Alfred Pommer and Eleanor Winters reveal these and other stories of an ever-changing SoHo."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609495886
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 09/25/2012
Series: History & Guide
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Alfred Pommer (NYC) is a licensed tour guide and owner of New York City Cultural Walking Tours and a member of the Guides Association of New York. He is a native New Yorker with more than 20 years experience as a tour guide. Eleanor Winters is a native of Brooklyn. A commercial and fine artist specializing in calligraphy, she has written five books for calligraphers. Eleanor lives half the year in Brooklyn and half in Paris, and she teaches calligraphy in Europe and the U.S. She exhibits her artwork widely and is represented by the Franklin 54 Gallery + Projects in Manhattan. Eleanor has a Masters of Art from New York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

1 Local History, Part I 13

2 Local History, Part II 19

3 Canal Street: The Collect Pond, Bogardus and Bruce, Blackwell's Island and Samuel F.B. Morse 31

4 Along Crosby Street and Back to Grand Street: An Opium Den, the First Jewish Congregation, Department Stores, Spiritualists and Séances 41

5 Broadway and Broome Street: Robert Moses's Folly, Jane Jacobs and Margot Gayle, Daniel Badger and Richard Morris Hunt 55

6 Broadway and Spring Street: Bishop's Crook Lampposts, the St. Nicholas Hotel, Fernando Wood and the Copperhead Conspiracy, the Ghost of SoHo and the Prince of Humbugs 67

7 Still on Broadway, Heading for Prince Street: The Free-Love League, Charles Broadway Rouss, Little Singer and Old St. Pat's 81

8 Back on Broadway: Niblo's Garden, the Black Crook, John Jacob Astor, the Comic Book Museum and the Wall 93

9 Along Houston to Mercer Street: The Cable Building, Fanelli's Café, Artists and Brothers 105

10 Greene Street: Architectural Masterpieces, C. Godfrey Gunther, the Floating Subway Map and a Mural 117

11 Wooster Street: Maciunas and the Fluxhouse, Dionysus, Spalding Gray and the Ghosts of West Broadway 127

Index 137

About the Authors 143

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