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. This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City. For the area in London UK see Soho. The City of New York In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government which administers the five fundamental constituent parts that make up the consolidated city Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Houston Street redirects here For the Major League Baseball player with a similar name see Huston Street. Bowery (ˈbaʊɚi or /ˈbaʊri/ is the name of a street and a small neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Early Morning Alamo by David Shankbonejpg|thumb|right|200px|Tony Rosenthal's Alamo ]]The single block of Astor Place Broadway, as the name implies is a wide avenue in New York City. NoHo is wedged between Greenwich Village, west of Broadway, and the East Village. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. There was no such thing as "Noho" until the late 1980s, when the name was invented by a cabal of real estate developers. 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. Lafayette Street is a city street in New York City 's Lower Manhattan. Alexander Jackson Davis (AJ Davis ( July 24, 1803 &ndash January 14, 1892) was one of the most successful and influential American architects Across from it is the Public Theater. When it was a light manufacturing and warehouse district, Robert Mapplethorpe's loft was in NoHo. Robert Mapplethorpe ( November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American Photographer, known for his large-scale highly

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.

External links

• NoHo Historic District at the New York City Landmarks Commission
• NOHO NY Business Improvement District
• The Public Theater
• Evening Standard article about London 'Noho' controversy