Not to focus on the miniscule when there are clearly bigger issues, but local media please get your neighborhoods right: Sixth Avenue and Watts is not in SoHo, the boundaries of which are West Broadway, Canal, Houston and Lafayette. Neither is the Trump SoHo. (Source: nyc.gov)
Waitttttt. I don’t live in Soho?! What is the area just west of Soho called then?
Sorry for all the people I’ve slightly misinformed over the past 12 hours thanks to reblogs. Yes, the area west of West Broadway is not considered Soho. I call it “those nice blocks of Sullivan and Thompson.” Unless it’s west of 6th Ave., which is even more not-Soho. On some maps I had seen that section grouped with the far West Village and the old taxi maps even lumped that area in with Tribeca, which makes no sense, since Tribeca means “triangle below Canal.” You have to admit, Sullivan, Thompson and MacDougal don’t feel much like the cobblestones and cast iron buildings of Wooster, Mercer, Greene, etc.
On the other end, a newer map extends Soho one block further east from Crosby to Lafayette. The east side of Lafayette is Nolita (north of Kenmare; south of that it’s Little Italy proper) and, three blocks further east (at Bowery) it becomes the Lower East Side.
Next up: why the East Village is not part of “the Village” and they don’t even connect.
I think SoHo should extend to sixth now - there’s really nothing else to call, say, Thompson and Prince. I am pleased to see I made the cut for “the real” SoHo though.
Can’t sleep. Catching up on old Tumblr. Re: Sullivan, Thompson and MacDougal, one could make a pretty solid case that those streets were (and are?) considered to belong to Greenwich Village, in spirit and style. That said, 6th Ave seems to be a commonly accepted demarcation line for Soho.
The broad borders of Little Italy and Nolita are for the most part easy to agree on. But sometimes, depending on who you are talking to or what you are reading, the borders of the Lower East Side are considered to encompass both neighborhoods (as Carnegie Hill or Yorkville fall within the UES) and extend west to Lafayette Street. Our paper of record sees it that way too (sometimes.) For example, in this 2009 article about Gold Bar on Broome Street in Little Italy, the New York Times refers to it as that “tiny Lower East Side lounge.”
