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Mick Jones Is Moving To Soho

by | Jul 1, 2016

Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones recently purchased an NYC loft at 420 West Broadway better known as 94 Thompson Street. The building sits between Spring and Prince Street and was famous back in the sixties as the Soho Gallery Building.

This area of Soho, especially the building itself, was once considered the center of the Soho art scene. The building was originally built in 1900 as a condo which was converted to a co-op in 2000. It has seven floors with a single resident per floor with a purchase price of 4.9 million.

headerSoho – The Heart of Lower Manhattan

Soho is best known for its artistic roots, but also for its endless shopping and various boutiques featuring name brands for both national and international vendors.

The name Soho itself is a reference to the “South of Houston Street” and also a reference to London’s West End. Soho is famous for its cast iron architecture throughout the district and boasts approximately over two hundred fifty examples throughout the district.

Cast iron was originally used as a decorative front over a pre-existing building façade. Most of this construction occurred during the 1840’s to the 1880’s when the cast iron construction process was originally thought to be stronger than steel. However, testing later showed that the cast iron could not stand up to the extreme heat that would have been present during a fire. As a result, builders switched back to steel.

Soho was Originally Meant to be a Highway

The area was originally slated to be the location of two enormous elevated highways. The project was meant to create a car and truck thoroughfare that would have connected the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges on the eastern side with the Holland Tunnel on the West.

The artist movement in the 1960’s was able to challenge the plans citing the potential loss of historic structures dating back to the mid 1800’s. In the end, the artist movement won out over a possible highway. This led to the redevelopment and repurposing of the area into what we see today.

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