HIStORY How do you define a neighborhood that’s also a New York lifestyle? SoHo, an acronym for SOuth of HOuston Street—the trendy district bordered by Houston Street on its north, Canal Street on its south, Broadway on the east, and the Hudson River on the west—means glamour, youth, luxury, shopping, and enterprise. We just say SoHo. Before it became an art and shopping mecca, SoHo had a very long city history—first as a residential neighborhood, then, during the 1800s, a commercial center, where the neighborhood’s famous cast-iron warehouse buildings and romantic cobble-stone streets were built—housing such fashion staples as Lord & Taylor and Tiffany & Co. By the time the 1930s rolled around with a plan to run the Lower Manhattan Expressway through it, SoHo had become run-down and near-deserted. Of course, there is nothing cutting-edge artists love more than spacious real estate away from the uptown folds. In sprawling SoHo loft spaces of the late ‘60s, artists as diverse Chuck Close, Frank Stella, and Richard Serra started vital, bohemian art movement—and the neighborhood revival. Like today, art poured through the SoHo streets. Buyers, trendsetters, and intellectuals again flocked to the once-forgotten neighborhood. And where artists go, fashion follows.  In the1990s, the neighborhood became a glamour capital, for chic stores, restaurants, spas, art galleries, and boutiques. Today Cipriani’s, Prada, Chanel, Yohji Yamamoto, Bloomingdales’s SoHo, and Apple’s flagship store, are among the many that fill the storefronts along Mercer Street, Greene Street, Spring Street, Prince Street, and West Broadway. SoHo has become one of the most exclusive and sought-after residences in New York City. And the Soho Grand was the first hotel to bring luxury back to the neighborhood for visitors, partiers, celebrities, and friends.