SoHo — Cast Iron and Artists · 12 stops
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SoHo — Cast Iron and Artists
Midtown, New York
12 stops · ~17 min
About 40 min walk · 12 stories · Free
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Start: The Puck Building — —
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Twelve stories from the Puck Building to the Haughwout Building — Keith Haring's Pop Shop, the Bayard-Condict Building, the Earth Room, the Broken Kilometer and the expressway that never came.
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The Puck Building
A magazine's gilded mascot on Lafayette
2
Keith Haring's Pop Shop
Art for everyone, on Lafayette Street
3
Bayard-Condict Building
Louis Sullivan's only New York building
4
The Cable Building
Broadway's cable-car powerhouse
5
The Wall
Forrest Myers' Gateway to SoHo
6
How to Say Houston
HOW-ston, not HYOO-ston, and why
7
The New York Earth Room
A loft full of dirt since 1977
8
SoHo's First Gallery
Paula Cooper's 1968 antiwar opening
9
Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse
New York's first gay community center
10
The Broken Kilometer
A kilometer of brass, in pieces
11
The Expressway That Never Came
How Broome Street escaped a highway
12
Haughwout Building
Where shoppers first rode an elevator
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