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peterfeld:

emilykearns:

peterfeld:

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.