The Lay Of The Land
NoHo is small enough to walk end to end in ten minutes and carries more landmarked architecture per block than almost anywhere in Manhattan. Broadway, Lafayette Street, Bond Street and Great Jones Street are lined with cast-iron and Romanesque commercial buildings from the 1870s through the 1890s, built as dry-goods warehouses and later occupied by artists' lofts. Colonnade Row on Lafayette dates to the 1830s.
The housing is loft living in its original form. Apartments run wide and deep with ceilings of twelve feet and more, columns in the middle of the room, and windows the size of doors. Many are co-ops and condos converted decades ago; rentals turn over less often and tend to be large. A handful of newer buildings on Bond Street and along the Bowery add contemporary condos with the same scale.
Astor Place and Cooper Square mark the north end, where Cooper Union and the Public Theater sit, and the blocks toward the Bowery pick up the East Village's restaurants and bars. Retail on Broadway and Lafayette runs to design stores and flagships rather than groceries, so daily errands tend to happen in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Transit is direct. The 6 stops at Bleecker Street and Astor Place, the B, D, F and M at Broadway-Lafayette, and the N, R and W at 8th Street. Greenwich Village is across Broadway, SoHo across Houston, and the East Village across the Bowery, which makes NoHo less a destination than a very good address in the middle of three.
Market Pulse
What renting in NoHo looks like right now, from listings active on Sidewalk.
- 1 BR$4,600/mo
- 2 BR$7,195/mo
- Hollow: fewer than 5 listings that month
Asking rents among listings active on Sidewalk, updated September 27.
Nearby restaurants
A taste of where to eat around NoHo.
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