Looking westward along the Bond street in NOHO
NoHo, for North of Houston Street (as contrasted with SoHo, South of Houston) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly bounded by Houston Street on the south, The Bowery on the east, Astor Place on the north, and Broadway on the west. NoHo is wedged between Greenwich Village, west of Broadway, and the East Village. When Lafayette Street was opened in the 1820s, it was one of the most fashionable streets in New York: the only survivor of that era is half of the original Colonnade Row, 1833, perhaps designed by Alexander Jackson Davis for speculative builder Seth Geer. Across from it is The Public Theater. When it was a light manufacturing and warehouse district, Robert Mapplethorpe's loft was in NoHo.
The term NoHo is gaining popularity now in London, UK. Coined by real estate agents in 2006-2007, NoHo in London is made up of the area extending several blocks north of Oxford Street between Great Portland Street and Tottenham Court Road, in the same way as London's Soho is to the south of Oxford Street. It should be noted, though, that this usage is opposed by local residents, and the area is more commonly called Fitzrovia.
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