LOCATION In New York, location is everything. The Soho Grand stands right in the pulse of downtown’s richest, rawest, and most luxurious locations—an advantageous criss-cross of fashion, industry, culture, and nightlife. Bordered by Houston Street to the north, Canal Street to the south, Broadway and Lafayette Street to the east, and the Hudson River on the west, SoHo is an acronym for South of Houston—and an adjective for high style.  In SoHo it is possible to get away while standing right in the center. Along beautiful cobble-stoned streets, cafes, clothing boutiques, jewelry stores, exceptional restaurants, art galleries, lounges, and nightclubs bring an intersection of life and luxury the latest fashions housed in the historic cast-iron buildings underneath glass-bottle sidewalks. The only thing that may be more attractive than the architecture may be the people wandering down the streets.  SoHo is downtown’s gateway neighborhood, with streets weaving closely into other exceptional New York neighborhoods, such as Wall Street, Tribeca, and the Financial District to the south, the rich, bohemian residences of Nolita, the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, West Village, and lively, cultured neighborhoods like Chinatown and Little Italy. Restaurants as upscale as Nobu or as casual as a French café are all within footsteps from the hotel doors. All trains run through SoHo, leading only a few stops away to the Theater District, Times Square, Museum of Modern Art, and the Empire State Building—the ultimate New York landmarks so close at hand without sacrificing the cool of the downtown scene.