SoHo, New York, NY Rentals

30 Charlton St #1B, New York, NY 10014
$3,800/mo
Studio · 1 bath
30 Charlton St #1BNew York, NY 10014
Call(631) 626-0027
183 Prince St #4E, New York, NY 10012
$5,995/mo
2 beds · 1 bath
183 Prince St #4ENew York, NY 10012
Call(646) 895-9524
529 Broome St #13, New York, NY 10013
$3,890/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
529 Broome St #13New York, NY 10013
Call(212) 695-4360
98 Charlton St #8, New York, NY 10014
$3,800/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
98 Charlton St #8New York, NY 10014
Call(212) 387-8877
212 Lafayette St #1A, New York, NY 10012
$4,500/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
212 Lafayette St #1ANew York, NY 10012
131 Thompson St #4Q, New York, NY 10012
$5,400/mo
2 beds · 1 bath
131 Thompson St #4QNew York, NY 10012
147 Sullivan St #4C, New York, NY 10012
$3,950/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
147 Sullivan St #4CNew York, NY 10012
150 Sullivan St #33, New York, NY 10012
$4,495/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
150 Sullivan St #33New York, NY 10012
104 Sullivan St #D, New York, NY 10012
$5,000/mo
2 beds · 1 bath
104 Sullivan St #DNew York, NY 10012
200 Prince St #1F, New York, NY 10012
$3,495/mo
Studio · 1 bath
200 Prince St #1FNew York, NY 10012
100 Vandam St #10A, New York, NY 10013
$32,500/mo
4 beds · 4 baths · 2,589 sq ft
100 Vandam St #10ANew York, NY 10013
111 Varick St #26A, New York, NY 10013
$19,750/mo
2 beds · 2.5 baths · 1,564 sq ft
111 Varick St #26ANew York, NY 10013
40 Mercer St #21, New York, NY 10013
$19,000/mo
2 beds · 2.5 baths · 1,745 sq ft
40 Mercer St #21New York, NY 10013
38 Macdougal St #4A, New York, NY 10012
$4,495/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
38 Macdougal St #4ANew York, NY 10012
103 Sullivan St #2A, New York, NY 10012
$3,900/mo
Studio · 1 bath
103 Sullivan St #2ANew York, NY 10012
33 Wooster St #4, New York, NY 10013
$25,000/mo
2 beds · 2.5 baths · 3,000 sq ft
33 Wooster St #4New York, NY 10013
323 Canal St #3, New York, NY 10013
$6,000/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
323 Canal St #3New York, NY 10013
57 Thompson St #RB1, New York, NY 10012
$5,295/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
57 Thompson St #RB1New York, NY 10012
81 Wooster St #4WM, New York, NY 10012
$20,000/mo
4 beds · 2 baths · 3,660 sq ft
81 Wooster St #4WMNew York, NY 10012
120 Thompson St #22, New York, NY 10012
$3,750/mo
Studio · 1 bath
120 Thompson St #22New York, NY 10012
77 Charlton St #N11A, New York, NY 10014
$15,495/mo
2 beds · 2 baths · 1,099 sq ft
77 Charlton St #N11ANew York, NY 10014
77 Sullivan St #4, New York, NY 10012
$8,200/mo
2 beds · 1 bath
77 Sullivan St #4New York, NY 10012
102 Charlton St #10D, New York, NY 10014
$4,695/mo
Studio · 1 bath
102 Charlton St #10DNew York, NY 10014
152 Thompson St #4EF, New York, NY 10012
$7,695/mo
2 beds · 1 bath
152 Thompson St #4EFNew York, NY 10012
210 Avenue Of The Americas #5A, New York, NY 10014
$6,975/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
210 Avenue Of The Americas #5ANew York, NY 10014
330 Spring St #11C, New York, NY 10013
$17,000/mo
2 beds · 2 baths · 1,422 sq ft
330 Spring St #11CNew York, NY 10013
188 6th Ave #5R, New York, NY 10013
$8,995/mo
3 beds · 2 baths
188 6th Ave #5RNew York, NY 10013
327 Canal St #1, New York, NY 10013
$12,750/mo
4 beds · 2 baths · 1,250 sq ft
327 Canal St #1New York, NY 10013
345 W Broadway #5, New York, NY 10013
$22,500/mo
3 beds · 2.5 baths · 2,200 sq ft
345 W Broadway #5New York, NY 10013
52 Macdougal St #3B, New York, NY 10012
$4,200/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
52 Macdougal St #3BNew York, NY 10012
402 Broadway #3, New York, NY 10012
$30,000/mo
2 beds · 2 baths · 2,100 sq ft
402 Broadway #3New York, NY 10012
9 Mercer St #5A, New York, NY 10013
$19,000/mo
2 beds · 2 baths · 1,800 sq ft
9 Mercer St #5ANew York, NY 10013
448 Broome St #4R, New York, NY 10013
$11,975/mo
2 beds · 2 baths
448 Broome St #4RNew York, NY 10013
142 Sullivan St #13, New York, NY 10012
$7,500/mo
2 beds · 1 bath
142 Sullivan St #13New York, NY 10012
83 Spring St #5F, New York, NY 10012
$15,500/mo
1 bed · 2 baths · 2,000 sq ft
83 Spring St #5FNew York, NY 10012
68 Thompson St #D5, New York, NY 10012
$4,850/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
68 Thompson St #D5New York, NY 10012
159 Prince St #19, New York, NY 10012
$5,220/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
159 Prince St #19New York, NY 10012
29 King St #2H, New York, NY 10014
$12,000/mo
1 bed · 1 bath · 1,000 sq ft
29 King St #2HNew York, NY 10014
75 Thompson St #21, New York, NY 10012
$4,950/mo
1 bed · 1 bath
75 Thompson St #21New York, NY 10012
70 Charlton St #4C, New York, NY 10014
$14,900/mo
2 beds · 2.5 baths · 1,323 sq ft
70 Charlton St #4CNew York, NY 10014

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SoHo Snapshot

About SoHo

Introduction

Welcome to SoHo, the neighborhood justsouth of Houston Street in Lower Manhattan. SoHo has a split personality. In the morning, when the sun slants on Belgian-block streets and charming storefronts yawn open, it feels a bit like Europe. As if in a photo shoot, stylish locals casually emerge from cast-iron buildings to grab coffee. Bikes flow down Prince Street and buttery aromas waft from French bakeries. But by midday, SoHo's narrow sidewalks are so clogged with bodies - tourists, shoppers, workers and street vendors - that it instead resembles Times Square. The art studio scene of the 1970s is pretty much gone, though a handful of artists remain by the grace of rent control. In its place are globe-trotting socialites, expensive cocktails, and Bloomingdales. Whatever the hour, there's one commonality: SoHo is a place to be.

Transportation

SoHo is roughly bounded by Canal Street to the south, West Houston Street to the north, Lafayette Street to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. It's a convenient and connected location, with lots of subway options: the N/R, B/D/F/M, C/E, 1 and 6 trains. The M21 bus goes across town on Houston Street and the M5 goes down Broadway and up Sixth Avenue. There are also plenty of bike-sharing stations courtesy of CitiBike.

Livability

SoHo doesn't have many parks, but the scruffy Vesuvio Playground on Thompson Street between Spring and Prince Streets is very popular, offering basketball courts, a small pool and a playground. Leafier green spaces are just outside the neighborhood. A few blocks north in Greenwich Village is Washington Square Park, with a recently-refurbished playground and dog run. To the west, Hudson River Park has those and other amenities, including sunny lawns, an island-long bike path, and a sports fields on Pier 40 at the end of Houston Street.

This isn't the best neighborhood for families. Though it's relatively quiet at night, daytime crowds verge on unpleasant. Given its narrow, clogged sidewalks, it's not a fun place to push a stroller. There are a few kid-friendly places, such as the Scholastic Store and Citababes indoor gym, but families would likely prefer more low-key areas like the West Village or Tribeca.

Neighborhood Life

SoHo is primarily a shopping district. The main streets are Prince, Spring, Broadway and West Broadway, all filled with major chain stores such as Apple, Bloomingdales, Uniqlo, Prada and Gap. The cobbled back streets have fashionable boutiques and quirky specialty stores, including local favorites like the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and Opening Ceremony. Modern home and furniture design stores abound, useful for filling the airy lofts above. Alessi, Design Within Reach, Ochre, Dwell Studio and Jonathan Adler sit within a few blocks of each other. Mixed among the storefronts are plenty of fine food and drink stops for the harried shopper, ranging from the enduringly stylish Balthazar to old-school pub Fanelli's.

Though SoHo is no longer the arts hub it was in the 1960s and 1970s, a few remnants remain. You can get a sense of the old neighborhood at Donald Judd's loft and studio on Spring Street, which has been preserved and recently opened to visitors. The nonprofit Drawing Center perseveres on Wooster Street, offering exhibitions and school programs. Galleries like the Artists Space, Team and Spencer Brownstone keep the neighborhood current.

SoHo History

The area that's now SoHo was mostly hilly farmland until the late 1700s. A Native American trail that ran the length of Manhattan passed through it, later becoming Broadway. Some of the land was owned by former slaves freed by the Dutch West India Company, making it the first free African-American settlement on Manhattan island.

The hills were eventually leveled and the soil used to fill in the polluted canal and marshland to the south of the area. Once it became suitable for development, the area was quickly built up, lined with red-brick Federal townhouses for the wealthy. In the mid-19th century, the neighborhood transitioned from a residential tract to a commercial and entertainment district. Broadway was lined with stores, hotels, theaters and music halls, while the cobbled side streets became a red-light district. Between 1860 and 1865, the neighborhood's population dropped by 25%, due to its increasingly sordid character and an influx of manufacturing businesses. Old buildings were demolished and replaced with factories and warehouses constructed with cast iron, and SoHo became a center for the textile and dry-goods industries. As the city pushed northward at the turn of the 20th century, major businesses moved out of SoHo and were replaced by smaller, less-fashionable ones. The beautiful cast-iron buildings sat largely forgotten until the 1960s, when artists moved in and used the large lofts as studios. The artists were able to get the warehouse zoning laws modified in a way that allowed both them and the remaining industry to use the buildings, and the area became a hive of contemporary art. A large part of the neighborhood between West Broadway and Crosby was designated the SoHo-Cast Iron historic district in 1973. This revitalization spurred growth, which drew high-end boutiques and priced out artists.

Notable Addresses

27 Greene Street - Artist Chuck Close had a studio here.
101 Spring Street - Donald Judd's loft and studio.
80 Wooster Street - Former Fluxus Foundation creative co-op, where artists suc as Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg and Andy Warhol performed or showed their work.
141 Prince Street - Rupert Murdoch and designer Elie Tahari have each lived in lofts here.
30 Crosby Street - Formerly home to several famous residents, including Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz and Courtney Love.
158 Mercer Street - Notable residents have included Jon Bon Jovi, hotelier André Balazs and Fabien Baron.