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High, Low, and Underfoot: SoHo Street Art
Francoise Schein’s “Subway Map Floating on a NY Sidewalk” on Greene Street between Prince and Spring I recently had coffee with Sascha Mombartz and Anastasija Ochetertina of Art Walk NYC...
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SoHo as Muse: The SoHo Shift
Public Interaction: Isabel modeled the Soho dress for a fashion editorial photoshoot the group named “Bag Lady”. She caused quite a scene in the big, attention grabbing garment, both disrupting and...
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Another year older…
A “Keep SoHo Low” t-shirt from the SoHo Alliance And am I any wiser? Yes, in fact I think I am. I have gathered quite a bit of wisdom after writing this blog for four years. I’ve done oodles of...
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Back to the Future on Mercer Street
The SoHo weekly News, November 1973. See the end of this post for highlights from this issue. So here I am one month into cataloging The SoHo Memory Archive, and I have begun with the easiest...
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The SoHo Memory Project Goes on The Line
Last month, I was interviewed by The Line about The SoHo Memory Project. Read the article, and check out all of the great things happening at The Line and at their loft on Greene Street, The...
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Girls and Boys on Film
I just looked over my past few posts, and boy oh boy are they serious! So I thought today we could do something fun. I’ve uploaded a bunch of photos of SoHo kids (and some grownups) and I thought you...
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The SoHo Historical Society?
Loft For Sale – Copy for an advertisement, date unknown. Sounds like a nice place. And I think it was on West Broadway! Ever wonder why SoHo doesn’t have a historical society or neighborhood...
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Yes, The SoHo Historical Society!
So here it is—my big plan. Drumroll please….. I plan to design and build a portable historical society that can navigate the bustling urban environment of today’s SoHo while showing a glimpse of its...
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Moving Forward Toward the Past
420 West Broadway back when it was the center of SoHo’s gallery scene in the early-1970’s We did it! And we did it SoHo style. Everyone in our community came together this past month and gave what...
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And The Survey Says,… Part II
Crosby Lunch, the coffee shop on the corner of Crosby and Prince, where my mom would get me grilled cheese and milkshakes, is one of the places I miss most from my childhood. A couple of years back, I...
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Crosby Street
Are you ready to go back? WAY back? Here we go…. Filmaker Jody Saslow contacted me recently about a film she made when she was at NYU film school called “Crosby Street.” It is a beautiful portrayal...
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You are What You Eat….or is it Wear?
(image via domesticgeekgirl.com) A couple of months ago, I walked past 127 Prince Street at the corner of Wooster and was surprised to see that a Lululemon men’s store had opened. Lululemon for men? It...
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Is there art in SoHo?
Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, 1979. Long-term installation,393 West Broadway, New York City. Photo: Jon Abbott Many people lament the fact that SoHo is no longer a cultural destination, that...
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Going Greene—The Greene Street Project: A Long History of a Short Block
What can one block, a span of less than 500 feet of a New York City street, tell you? If you look closely enough, you can see 400 years of economic development. In a new website entitled, “Greene...
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SoHo Past, Present, …Future?
What a year it’s been for The SoHo Memory Project! We’ve made so much progress toward preserving and sharing the history of SoHo during this first few months of programming. There has been a recent...
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Welcome to Year Six: The SoHo Memory Project in 2016
The SoHo Memory Project Portable Historical Society is ready to roll! On January 1, 2011, I started writing this blog without a clue about where it would lead. I began almost grudgingly, thinking that...
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Sharon Watts’ SoHo
John Baeder Postcard The tagline for this blog is “shaping our collective memory one post at a time.” Which is to say that, although we have been remembering SoHo’s past together, these remembrances...
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Listening to SoHo
Back in October 2015, The SoHo Memory Project held a day of recording with StoryCorps, an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate the lives of everyday Americans by...
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Ben Schonzeit
Artist Ben Schonzeit in his studio on Mercer Street I recently had the privilege of visiting the home and studio of Ben Schonzeit. It turns out the we have been neighbors on Mercer Street going on 40...
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The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980
I am so very pleased to announce the publication of The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980, by SMP friend Aaron Shkuda. I’ve know Aaron since he was doing research...
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