Tag: SoHo (Manhattan, NY)

Serge Raoul, Whose SoHo Bistro Glittered With Stars, Dies at 86

Serge Raoul, an Alsatian-born former filmmaker who with his brother, Guy, a classically trained chef, founded Raoul’s, a clubby French bistro and SoHo canteen in Lower Manhattan that drew generations of artists, rock stars, writers, models, machers and movie people — along with those who yearned to be near them — died on March 8 […]

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A New York Apartment With a Garden in the Kitchen

When Brock Forsblom and Jeremy Heimans first saw their future apartment, “it was the SoHo loft fantasy,” says Heimans, 46, an Australian entrepreneur and nonfiction writer. With nine and a half-foot ceilings covered in moldering pressed tin, exposed brick walls and 3,000 square feet of open living space, it evoked a bygone era in which […]

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‘Grinch Boys’ Charged With Robbing Clubgoers to Fund Shopping Sprees

Manhattan prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against four people who they said targeted intoxicated clubgoers, stole their credit cards and phones and used them to purchase more than $400,000 worth of luxury goods. They called themselves the Grinch Boys, prosecutors said — and referred to their activities as “grinching.” Two people whom prosecutors identified as members […]

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Praxis Founder Dryden Brown’s Utopian Visions

Crisis as Opportunity In Amsterdam, Mr. Brown described Praxis as his response to being trapped inside his apartment during Covid, mixed with his longstanding interest in colonial America. “Ready to join America in 1776?” reads a company pitch deck. In 2022, Mr. Brown had been more specific about his motivation to build a city from […]

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How Chelsea Became the Unlikely Center of the Art World

THE NEW YORK art dealer Pat Hearn was two days away from signing a fresh lease on her gallery space in SoHo when the phone rang on a snowy Sunday night in the spring of 1994. Paul Morris, a fellow dealer who knew she was restless, suggested that they open galleries in Chelsea. “Why would […]

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