Jul. 27, 2007 - SoHo kvetching (yes, more)
Aside from people who are paying millions and millions to move to SoHo lofts (not that there is anything wrong with that), there is a nearly constant stream of people complaining about the loss of the Good Old Days in SoHo – which seems to be measured idiosyncratically as ‘the year I first moved here’.
In that vein, consider this quote from the NY Times:
On weekends, the narrow streets are filled with gallery-goers and those curious to see la vie de boheme being played out behind grimy cast-iron facades. … [S]tores and bookshops, boutiques, restaurants and bars have grown up around the tourist trade, and the cry among residents has become “Not another Eighth Street”, their symbol of Greenwich Village commercialism.
[there may be artists still there, yes …] But anyone who spends much time in SoHo will probably run into stockbrokers, lawyers and others who live there, simply because they want to .
Pretty standard rant, right?
Plus ca change ….
© Sandy Mattingly 2007
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