It’s all but impossible to stroll through SoHo without marveling at the neighborhood’s 19th-century cast-iron buildings. Many, if not most, of these buildings were originally used as factories and warehouses. Today they, along with the former warehouses and Federalist-style rowhomes of neighboring Hudson Square, are home to an awe-inspiring array of art galleries and PR firms, designer shops and boutique hotels, restaurants and bars catering to every craving and budget. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson’s quote about London, “When a man is tired of SoHo, he is tired of life; for there is in SoHo all that life can afford.”
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