“NYC BUSKING HOTSPOTS” - -KINGDOM OF JOGA-

SoHo, sometimes capitalized Soho,^[2] is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, which in recent history came to the public’s attention for being the location of many artists’ lofts and art galleries, but is now better known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store outlets.

The area’s history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing socio-economic, cultural, political and architectural developments.^[3]

The name “SoHo” refers to the area being “South of Houston Street”, and was also a reference to Soho, an area in London’s West End.^[4] It was coined by Chester Rapkin,^[5] an urban planner and author of the The South Houston Industrial Area study,^[6] also known as the “Rapkin Report”. This began a naming convention that became a model for the names of emerging and re-purposed neighborhoods in New York such as TriBeCa for “Triangle Below Canal Street”, DUMBO (“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”), NoHo (“North of Houston Street”), Nolita (“North of Little Italy”) and NoMad (“North of Madison Square”), among others.

Almost all of SoHo is included in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973, extended in 2010, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.^[7] It consists of 26 blocks and approximately 500 buildings,^[8] many of them incorporating cast-iron architectural elements.

(many side streets in the district are paved with Belgian blocks)

“LITTLE ITALY”

3 blocks on mulberry street

EAST VILLAGE

THE BOWERY

the Bowery (/ˈbaʊ.əri/ or New York English /ˈbaʊər.i/) is a street and neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north,^[1] while the neighborhood’s boundaries are roughly East 4th Street and the East Village to the north; Canal Street and Chinatown to the south; Allen Street and theLower East Side to the east; and Little Italy to the west.^[2]

In the 17th century, the road branched off Broadway north of Fort Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan to the homestead of Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland. The street was known as Bowery Lane prior to 1807.^[3] “Bowery” is an anglicization of the Dutch bouwerij, derived from an antiquated Dutch word for “farm”, as in the 17th century the area contained many large farms.^[1]

A New York City Subway station named Bowery, serving the BMT Nassau Street Line (J Z trains), is located close to the Bowery’s intersection withDelancey and Kenmare Streets.

there is a tunnel under the Bowery once intended for use by proposed but never built New York City Subway services, including the Second Avenue Subway

GREENWICH VILLAGE

PIER 40

353 west street
(greenwich village)

(homefries suggested we record in an abandoned lot there in order to take advantage of acoustics)

BORDERS:

broadway
(east)

north river
(west)

houston street
(south)

14th street
(north)

(named after greenwich england)
(south london)

centered around washington square park + NYU

(land of bob dylan)

(land of liliana and elizabeth ziman)
(liliana traced its roots to england)
(because she is also british?)
(her mama?)
(or just the beatles?)
(and the taylors)

(paul mccartney panders to new york city)

WEST VILLAGE

BORDERS:

hudson river
(west)

sixth avenue
(east)

west houston street
(south)

west 14th street
(north)

GRAMERCY PARK

FIFTH AVENUE

(runs north south through manhattan)
(from michael anthony’s apartment to the arches)

(the section between 49th street and 60th street is lined with prestigious shops)

(one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world)