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Mary by janis cooke newman5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Lucky thing there's Nolita (an amalgam of North of Little Italy), those formerly empty streets I would trek through on the journey between my SoHo walk-up in the '80s and my favorite Little Italy red-sauce joint. A visitor could be forgiven for thinking there are no authentic New York neighborhood experiences to be had in lower Manhattan. And as for Little Italy, a recent New York Times story reported that there were no actual born-in-Italy Italians living there (and only 5 percent of the current residents would call themselves Italian American). Lately, Greenwich Village seems like a combination chain store mall and NYU campus. A claim bolstered by the Tiffany store that's just opened on formerly grungy Greene Street.Īnd it's not just SoHo that's lost its neighborhood feel. ![]() These days, SoHo (even its fringes) has turned into designer Disneyland, prompting New York magazine to run a piece calling SoHo more Upper East Side than the Upper East Side. A place, in other words, where you'd go to get a taste of a "real NYC" neighborhood. ![]()
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