SoHo
Cast-iron district that went from garment factories to artists' lofts to luxury boutiques.
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This guide to SoHo in New York City starts among the cast-iron facades once known as Hell's Hundred Acres, home to garment factories until the 1960s left them empty. You'll meet George Maciunas, the Fluxus founder who saw the empty lofts and set out to fill them with artists despite a zoning code that made living there illegal. The guide follows the workaround he filed with the city, and the painters and sculptors who moved in anyway, long before the boutiques arrived.
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