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There is no part of NYC that is "only" for the rich. Even in the richest parts of NYC, there will be someone renting a cheap room, or someone who will be in the waning days of a dirt-cheap rental control apartment.
True. I know people who live in such cheap rentals in Sutton Place and Park Avenue. Course they're like 80-90 years old.
Right now theres a 1br for $2900 and another for $3695 one block apart from each other on houston. So it does depend on the block, the building and the street.
I lived there for years before moving uptown. These days SoHo gets jam packed wit tourists and their fanny packs. The people who live there are typically Euro Trash that spends little time in the area.
A buddy of mine still lives there with a roommate. They pay $4k per month for the smallest 2-bedroom I've ever seen. And their shower is in the freakin' KITCHEN!
Personally, I wouldn't live in SoHo even if I had the money. The crowds on the street can be worse than Times Square.
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Originally Posted by HellUpInHarlem
This is true. Broadway in the summer. Houston to canal. Sheesh.
Its really not that bad. Maybe B'way and Canal get congested, and to a lessor extent Spring and Prince, but overall its pretty nice and easy on Wooster, Greene and Mercer. I'd say its the most desired neighborhood in the city.
Are there many rent stabilized places even IN SOHO?
Most conversion were from factories and warehouses and artists grabbed the huge spaces without much more than lease protection if that.
And then the artists were shuttled out to be replaced by beautiful conversions and an influx of wealthy Eurotrash.
Street level is all precious little bits of pricey arts and crafts and hideously overpriced clothes.
My impression is that anyone moving into SOHO today had best have dough.
I've never loved Soho's "charm" and today, least of all.
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