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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603</id><updated>2024-03-13T11:03:26.407-04:00</updated><category term="Spring St."/><category term="street vendors"/><category term="Greene St."/><category term="Prince St."/><category term="Chanel"/><category term="Chelsea Girl"/><category term="Ling"/><category term="MacDougal St."/><category term="Metropolitan"/><category term="SoHo"/><category term="St. Anthony"/><category term="Sullivan St."/><category term="billboards"/><category term="maps"/><category term="snapshots"/><category term="7 for all Mankind"/><category term="AGI Brooks"/><category term="Adriano Goldschmied"/><category term="Agnes B."/><category term="Amalga"/><category term="Andrianna Shamaris"/><category term="Anna Sui"/><category term="Anne Fontaine"/><category term="Anya Hindmarch"/><category term="Arcadia"/><category term="Armani Casa"/><category term="Atelier Minyon"/><category term="BAPE"/><category term="BCBG Max Azria"/><category term="Babette"/><category term="Barney's CO-OP"/><category term="Ben Sherman"/><category term="Big Drop"/><category term="Body Shop"/><category term="Bogner"/><category term="Breil"/><category term="Broadway"/><category term="Broome St."/><category term="Burberry"/><category term="Burton"/><category term="Carrol Boyes"/><category term="Cigarillos"/><category term="Cite"/><category term="Clarins"/><category term="Comptoir des Cotonniers"/><category term="Custo Barcelona"/><category term="DKNY"/><category term="David Lee Holland"/><category term="Diesel"/><category term="E. Buk Antiques"/><category term="Empire State Building"/><category term="Erbe"/><category term="Eres"/><category term="Evolution"/><category term="Face Stockholm"/><category term="Flowers"/><category term="Flying A"/><category term="Fragments"/><category term="Frames"/><category term="Giggle"/><category term="Global Table"/><category term="Glory Chen"/><category term="Hair Box"/><category term="Hans Koch"/><category term="Hogan"/><category term="Hollister"/><category term="Houston St."/><category term="Il Bisonte"/><category term="Ilori"/><category term="Iradj"/><category term="J. Lindberg"/><category term="Jenny B."/><category term="Joe's Dairy"/><category term="John Varvatos"/><category term="Jonathan Adler"/><category term="Karen Millen"/><category term="Kidrobot"/><category term="Kisan"/><category term="Koho School of Sumi-E"/><category term="Korres"/><category term="LF"/><category term="La Perla"/><category term="Le Bo"/><category term="Le Petit Cafe"/><category term="LeSportsac"/><category term="LensCrafters"/><category term="Links"/><category term="Local"/><category term="Longchamp"/><category term="Lords News International"/><category term="Luceplan"/><category term="Meeka Meeko"/><category term="Miss Sixty"/><category term="Modern Tibet"/><category term="Molton Brown"/><category term="Morgenthal-Frederics"/><category term="Morrison Hotel"/><category term="Natuzzi"/><category term="Nuchtern House"/><category term="Olive and Bettes"/><category term="Once Upon a Tart"/><category term="Origins"/><category term="Ottiva"/><category term="Petal Belle"/><category term="Pino"/><category term="Pleats Please Issey Miyake"/><category term="Pomegranate Gallery"/><category term="Pottery Barn"/><category term="Psychic Elaine"/><category term="Psychic Fatima"/><category term="Purl"/><category term="Reinstein Ross"/><category term="Replay"/><category term="Robert Lee Morris"/><category term="STUart"/><category term="Salon Hoshi Coupe"/><category term="Sean"/><category term="Sicis"/><category term="Sol de Ibiza"/><category term="Something Special"/><category term="Space NK"/><category term="Sunglass Hut"/><category term="São"/><category term="Tarina Tarantino"/><category term="Taschen"/><category term="Tasti D-lite"/><category term="Theory"/><category term="Tibet Emporium"/><category term="Tommy Hilfiger"/><category term="Tous"/><category term="Tretorn"/><category term="Trump"/><category term="Union"/><category term="Vajra"/><category term="Varda"/><category term="Variazioni"/><category term="Vosages"/><category term="Ward-Nasse Gallery"/><category term="Waterworks"/><category term="West Broadway"/><category term="Wine Shop"/><category term="Wink"/><category term="Wooster St."/><category term="by boe"/><category term="forgotten signs"/><category term="littlemissmatched"/><category term="m0851"/><category term="posters"/><category term="subways"/><category term="tibi"/><category term="té casan"/><category term="welcome"/><title type='text'>SoHo Windows</title><subtitle type='html'>A photographic peek into the storefronts of the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo, the world's most fashionable and expensive outdoor shopping mall.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-4308605643816167253</id><published>2009-06-08T13:33:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T15:03:53.263-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="billboards"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Broadway"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="DKNY"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hollister"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Houston St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pottery Barn"/><title type='text'>Houston St. (Broadway)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Here's a picture I took on March 17, looking downtown from the busy NW corner of the intersection of Houston St. and Broadway.<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/31709/DKNY.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/31709/DKNY.JPG" border="0" width="512" height="384" /></a><br /></div><br />The big <a href="http://www.dkny.com/" target="_blank">DKNY</a> mural on the SE corner was painted over recently. The wall space will be used for a billboard for the store <a href="http://www.hollisterco.com/hol/homepage.html" target="_blank">Hollister</a>, which just moved into the SE corner store, where a big <a href="http://www.potterybarn.com/" target="_blank">Pottery Barn</a> store <a href="http://racked.com/tags/pottery-barn-soho" target="_blank">used to be</a>. Here's a picture from today's <a href="http://gawker.com/5283191/the-disappearing-dkny-mural" target="_blank">Gawker</a>, showing what the site looks like now.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://gawker.com/5283191/the-disappearing-dkny-mural" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/31709/newdkny.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Another SoHo landmark bites the dust. Although I disagree with this quote from the <a href="http://gawker.com/5283191/the-disappearing-dkny-mural" target="_blank">Gawker</a> article:<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Not as memorable or institutional as the tele-screens of Times Square or the Domino Sugar factory over in Queens, sure, but still a visual presence that now cedes to the neighborhood's near-complete suburban mall makeover.</blockquote>Yes, the neighborhood has become a mall . . . but I don't think the removal of a <span style="font-style: italic;">DKNY </span>billboard makes SoHo <span style="font-style: italic;">more </span>mall-like!<br /><br />The thing I'll miss most about the DKNY billboard is that it always reminded me of this amazing cartoon by Roz Chast:<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/31709/DKNJ.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/31709/DKNJ.jpg" border="0" width="301" height="400" /></a></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/4308605643816167253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=4308605643816167253&isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4308605643816167253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4308605643816167253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/06/houston-st-broadway.html' title='Houston St. (Broadway)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-8943051049677942154</id><published>2009-03-11T08:17:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T08:23:59.060-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chelsea Girl"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><title type='text'>Spring St. (between Thompson St. and Sullivan St.)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/Vintage.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/Vintage.JPG" border="0" width="324" height="400" /></a><br /></div>A new display at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chelsea-girl.com/" target="_blank">Chelsea Girl Couture</a> (186 Spring St.) caught my eye -- that is one bold outfit, quite Studio 54 fabulous if you could pull it off. The display rightfully gives it solo billing in the window, supported by a phalanx of fantastic Japanese bags. I adore that giant necklace, which I believe is a hefty golden owl. Wear it and get your <a href="http://hoaryredpoll.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/athenas-owl/" target="_blank"><span>Athena</span></a> on!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/8943051049677942154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=8943051049677942154&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/8943051049677942154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/8943051049677942154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-st-between-thompson-st-and.html' title='Spring St. (between Thompson St. and Sullivan St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-5936307960241398313</id><published>2009-03-11T08:04:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T08:06:17.861-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="by boe"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hans Koch"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lords News International"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Meeka Meeko"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Prince St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ward-Nasse Gallery"/><title type='text'>Prince St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Prince St. gets a little busier between Sullivan St. and Thompson St., and it's dotted with quite a few bag, jewelry, and accessory shops. Most of these are stores that exist only in SoHo.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/LordsNewsE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/LordsNewsE.JPG" border="0" width="322" height="400" /></a><br /></div>On the southeast corner of Prince St. and Sullivan St. is the spacious <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lords News International</span> (186 Prince St.). As you can see from the printed signs, they do film processing, provide WiFi, take passport photos, send and receive faxes, sell cold soda (and beer!) and candy, and have an ATM. They also do picture framing. Mainly, though, what they sell is magazines . . . hundreds and hundreds of magazines. Their windows on Prince St. are updated regularly, but I find the tall displays overwhelming . . . it's a blitzkrieg of media, and it's hard to focus on any one magazine cover.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/LordsNewsW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/LordsNewsW.JPG" border="0" width="339" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Another of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lords News International</span>'s windows on the Prince St. side. I only subscribe to the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">New Yorker</span></a> on purpose, so the vast array of periodicals here befuddles me. Who reads all these magazines?<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>Mysteriously, I also get <a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Time Out New York</span></a> (I don't do anything they suggest), <a href="http://www.foodandwine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Food &amp; Wine</span></a> (because I watch <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef" target="_blank">Top Chef</a>?), and <a href="http://www.genremagazine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Genre</span></a> (deeply lame and slight) in the mail, although I ordered none of those. As a sort of joke, my mother gave me a subscription to <a href="http://www.rd.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Reader's Digest</span></a> for Christmas, so I am able to follow the current frightened obsessions of the elderly and chuckle at <a href="http://www.rd.com/all-jokes.do?cat=1198" target="_blank">Humor in Uniform</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/WardNasse.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/WardNasse.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="355" /></a><br /></div>At 178 Prince St. is the <a href="http://www.wardnasse.org/index.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ward-Nasse Gallery</span></a>, displaying this arresting Jesus painting. I feel a deep fondness for the remaining galleries in SoHo, since most of them have fled the mall for the newer gallery district in Chelsea.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/HansKoch.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/HansKoch.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="290" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://nymag.com/listings/stores/hans-koch/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hans Koch</span></a> (174 Prince St.) sells handcrafted, one-of-a-kind bags, purses, jewelry, and other accessories, with an emphasis on strikingly colorful and inventive leatherwork. Everything in the store is created by Bauhaus-trained Hans Koch himself and his assistants.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/HansKochang.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/HansKochang.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="309" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Another angle on the <a href="http://nymag.com/listings/stores/hans-koch/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hans Koch</span></a> window, showing more of the unique bags and clutches and the jewelry hanging on the side wall.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoE.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="336" /></a><br /></div>At 181 Prince St. is <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1441105" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meeka Meeko</span></a> (clicking that link takes you to an obsessive slideshow video of the store's wares). This is a difficult store to categorize . . . on one hand, it's a jewelry and accessories shop, overflowing with rare, idiosyncratic, and vintage items. But the store also has gifty craft items and odd <span style="font-style: italic;">object</span> that remind me of items you usually see in shops with names such as The Whittling Fig on tourist beach town main streets that have turned quaint in order to survive.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoWwide.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoWwide.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="303" /></a><br /></div>The western window of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Meeka Meeko</span>. I kind of like the girly pink sale scrawl on the window.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoWclose1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoWclose1.JPG" border="0" width="337" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Closeup of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Meeka Meeko</span>'s western window. It does give the impression that you may discover a treasure amongst the clutter.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoWclose2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/MeekaMeekoWclose2.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="268" /></a><br /></div>Another closeup of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Meeka Meeko</span>'s eclectic and eccentric western window.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/byboe.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/byboe.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="285" /></a><br /></div>At 172 Prince St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.byboe.com/" target="_blank">by boe</a>, another bag and jewelry store. I give the display some points for the intriguing long-necked busts showing off the accessories in front of that green panel, but those points are quickly taken away because of the crappy printed "sample sale" signs.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/5936307960241398313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=5936307960241398313&isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/5936307960241398313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/5936307960241398313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/03/prince-st-between-sullivan-st-and.html' title='Prince St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-4748216876702827095</id><published>2009-03-10T07:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T07:05:14.912-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Empire State Building"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="snapshots"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sullivan St."/><title type='text'>SoHo Snapshot</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/EmpireDusk.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/EmpireDusk.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="354" /></a><br /></div>I had to stand in the middle of the intersection of Sullivan St. and Spring St. to snap this photo of the Empire State Building. It was chilly and overcast in the late afternoon, which lent the sky a moody, bruised appearance.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/4748216876702827095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=4748216876702827095&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4748216876702827095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4748216876702827095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/03/soho-snapshot.html' title='SoHo Snapshot'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-4815408721582540084</id><published>2009-03-10T06:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T06:51:38.168-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Erbe"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ling"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Prince St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salon Hoshi Coupe"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sean"/><title type='text'>Prince St. (between MacDougal St. and Sullivan St.)</title><content type='html'>Sorry for disappearing for a couple of weeks . . . I don't know what I was doing, really. Nothing productive, that's for sure. I just crawled into the depths of my cave and stayed inside, floating in the ether of ineffective dreaminess. It happens. Especially this time of year, when the sun moves into Pisces.<br /><br />But I've resurfaced now. These shots were taken on Prince St., heading from MacDougal St. to Sullivan St. Prepare for multiple spas and salons, but otherwise this is a quiet residential block, with St. Anthony's convent on the southern Sullivan St. corner.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/SeanW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/SeanW.JPG" border="0" width="359" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Menswear boutique <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.seanstore.com/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Sean</a> used to be on Thompson St., between Spring St. and Prince St., but it moved to its new, seemingly-smaller, similarly off-the-beaten-path location at 199 Prince St. last summer. I've always admired the store's natty, stylish suits, and I think these are the kinds of clothes I should be wearing if I ever get wealthy enough to embrace my full adulthood. Although I'm not exactly lusting after that purple scarf.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/SeanE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/SeanE.JPG" border="0" width="316" height="400" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The eastern window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.seanstore.com/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Sean</a>. I could totally see myself at some literary cocktail party in that blazer or those sweaters, but again, sans that scarf.<br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/ErbeWide.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/ErbeWide.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="217" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At 196 Prince St. is <a href="http://www.erbespa.com/erbespa.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Erbe</span></a>, an Italian herbal beauty spa. The inconspicuous, discreet entrance suits its elite clientele, which supposedly includes many celebrities such as Kate Moss and Lauren Hutton.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/ErbeClose.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/ErbeClose.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="214" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">A closeup of the <a href="http://www.erbespa.com/erbespa.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Erbe</span></a> window, with a Gothic white banister and some cherubim from<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cabanel's <a href="http://jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Cabanel/Cabanel_Birth_of_Venus.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Birth of Venus</span></a></span></span>.<br /></div><br /></div> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/SalonHoshiCoupe.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/SalonHoshiCoupe.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="266" /></a> </div>Across the street is another salon, also underground, the Japanese <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/hoshi-coupe-soho-new-york" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Salon Hoshi Coupe</span></a>, at 193 Prince St. Apparently, the haircuts are cheap but phenomenal, and the low-key space is comforting. But I'm stuck on that literal representation of <span style="font-style: italic;">ball-and-chain</span> in the front.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/Ling.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/21909/Ling.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="344" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">On the corner of Prince St. and Sullivan St., across the street from the convent, is our third beauty shop on the block, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://lingskincare.com/catalog/home.php" target="_blank">Ling</a>, at 191 Prince St. My favorite part of the Ling shop is outside the store . . . that funky tile on the sidewalk.<br /></div></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/4815408721582540084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=4815408721582540084&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4815408721582540084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4815408721582540084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/03/prince-st-between-macdougal-st-and.html' title='Prince St. (between MacDougal St. and Sullivan St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-2259583392502326038</id><published>2009-02-28T14:07:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T12:05:52.344-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MacDougal St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Nuchtern House"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Prince St."/><title type='text'>Nuchtern House (Northeast Corner of MacDougal St. and Prince St.)</title><content type='html'>One of the most intriguing and beautiful sets of windows in SoHo belongs to the Nuchtern House, located on the corner of MacDougal St. and Prince St. The house has two addresses: 34 MacDougal St. and 205 Prince St., which just shows you how big the thing is. Besides being a lovely and very large single-family house, which is rare enough in SoHo, its four giant street-level windows positively teem with gorgeous vegetation.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/BehindDoorNumberOne.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/BehindDoorNumberOne.JPG" border="0" width="315" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I stole the above picture from the blog <a href="http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/12/behind-door-number-one.html" target="_blank">New York Daily Photo</a>, because I didn't take a full picture of the whole house. On that site, I also learned that the home is owned by Anna and Simon Nuchtern. Simon Nuchtern, originally from Belgium, is a filmmaker, formerly for August Films. He now runs <a href="http://katinaproductions.com/about/about.html" target="_blank">Katina Productions</a>, a film and video production and subtitling services company, out of his SoHo home. The two large grates in the sidewalk on the Prince St. side are also fascinating, as there are huge windowboxes outside the below-ground windows, with giant hostas reaching up toward the sun.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternMac.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternMac.JPG" border="0" width="262" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I took this picture, and the following window pictures. This is the single tall window of Nuchtern House on the MacDougal St. side, showing the amazing variety of cacti and hanging plants. The greenery is so dense that you can't see past the wall of vegetation.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternPW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternPW.JPG" border="0" width="198" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The westernmost window on the Prince St. side. I go out of my way to walk past these windows regularly, and I'm always disappointed when the shades are down. When I saw that the windows were open on this pass, I had to stop and take pictures.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternPM.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternPM.JPG" border="0" width="235" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The middle window on the Prince St. side. How long does it take to water these plants regularly? (Luckily, most of them appear to be water-retaining cacti and bromeliads.) More than a green thumb, one of the Nuchterns has a green <span style="font-style: italic;">hand</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternPE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/NuchternPE.JPG" border="0" width="233" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The easternmost window of the Nuchtern House on the Prince St. side. It's a jungle in there!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/2259583392502326038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=2259583392502326038&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/2259583392502326038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/2259583392502326038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/nuchtern-house-northeast-corner-of.html' title='Nuchtern House (Northeast Corner of MacDougal St. and Prince St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-1001295825385878530</id><published>2009-02-28T13:35:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T13:37:47.012-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Koho School of Sumi-E"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MacDougal St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Something Special"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="St. Anthony"/><title type='text'>MacDougal St.</title><content type='html'>In the northwest corner of SoHo is the tail end of MacDougal St., which is only one block long south of W. Houston St. on the east side. On this part of MacDougal St.'s west side, it's broken up by a short, one-way block of King St. that barely gets any traffic at all. MacDougal St. ends at Prince St., where the angle of Sixth Avenue doesn't give it room to continue, and the street merges into the narrow <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=6442" target="_blank">Father Fagan Park</a>.<br /><br />North of W. Houston St., MacDougal St. is a busy bazaar of little stores, coffeehouses, head shops, restaurants, bars, and unique, international take-out joints, mostly catering to the tourist trade and feeding the NYU students' appetites. On the south side of W. Houston St., in SoHo proper, MacDougal St. is quiet and mostly residential, and has St. Anthony's school building on it, so there is only room for a few out-of-the-way restaurants . . . and just two storefronts on the whole block.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/SomethingSpecial.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/SomethingSpecial.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="271" /></a><br /></div>At 51 MacDougal St. is the mysterious and eccentric <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thevillager.com/villager_198/lowkeymailboxandkey.html" target="_blank">Something Special</a>, which offers mailbox and notary public services, makes keys, and sells offbeat gift items. Apparently, the store has quite a following with the local celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Lucy Lawless, and Patti Smith.<br /><br />The reflection of St. Anthony's school can be seen in the window. The school is now being used by the <a href="http://www.cookecenter.org/" target="_blank">Cardinal Cooke Academy for Learning and Development</a>, a school-based special education provider.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/KohoN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/KohoN.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="346" /></a><br /></div>Across the street is the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.koho-schoolofsumi-e.com/pages/1/index.htm" target="_blank">Koho School of Sumi-E</a> (64 MacDougal St.), where the instructor Koho Yamamoto conducts classes in brush painting and calligraphy, and displays her own art. This is the storefront school's northern window.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/KohoS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/MacDougal21909/KohoS.JPG" border="0" width="272" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Here's the southern window at the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.koho-schoolofsumi-e.com/pages/1/index.htm" target="_blank">Koho School of Sumi-E</a>, showing a Sumi-E portrait perhaps done by Koho herself.<br /><br />And that's the entirety of the storefronts on the SoHo side of MacDougal St.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/1001295825385878530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=1001295825385878530&isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/1001295825385878530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/1001295825385878530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/macdougal-st.html' title='MacDougal St.'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-1950726324429799241</id><published>2009-02-23T15:48:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T16:40:57.494-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Atelier Minyon"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Comptoir des Cotonniers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Custo Barcelona"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="E. Buk Antiques"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="LF"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sunglass Hut"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Theory"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Varda"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wink"/><title type='text'>Spring St. (North Side, between Wooster St. and West Broadway)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Here's the final entry of photos taken on the evening of February 17 . . . and about time, as almost a week has passed since then! I have more recent photographs to post! In my earnestness in getting all of SoHo shot, I've been biting off more than I can digest quickly. Patience, my pretty . . . patience.<br /><br />These are all taken on the north side of Spring St., on the block between Wooster St. and West Broadway.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Custo.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Custo.JPG" width="400" height="338" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At 145 Spring St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.custo-barcelona.com/" target="_blank">Custo Barcelona</a>, which obviously has no time for subtlety. I'm not loving the male mannequin's pajama pants with those sneakers, although the shirts are rather fun. The silky purple women's outfit nearest to the gilded peacock feather placard might work on a certain type of rich bohemian lady, but I suggest she forgo the white turban the outfit might inspire. The next garment to the right is a cute, short number, but in the colors of a technicolor barf. I can get behind the more darkly intense colors of the rightmost dress, but is that a single-celled organism printed on the front? Or merely a pulsating vagina? Each outfit might function at a party for sheer notability, but all together in a display, standing on mirrored gold and silver disks, they're quite an aesthetic assault.<br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Varda.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Varda.JPG" width="400" height="187" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">After Custo Barcelona, the muted, sensibly straightforward display of tasteful shoes at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vardashoes.com/main.html" target="_blank">Varda</a> (147 Spring St.) comes as a relief. All these handmade Italian shoes have a refined formality, and look completely wearable. I'm coveting the topmost ankle boot.<br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/LF.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/LF.JPG" width="378" height="400" /></a><br /></div>A distractingly haphazard and brutally amateurish display at the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lfstores.com/" target="_blank">LF</a> store (149 Spring St.). That spray paint graffiti is just ugly, and obscures the clothes, as does the desperate and bewildering ad text. What I can see of the outfits through the window's clutter isn't heinous -- there's a schlumpy, urban nerd-girl coziness that's almost charming. That nasty silver bag is an affront, though, as it looks like a receptacle for toxic biological waste. How this all connects to that antler chandelier, I do not know. But! 60% off!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/EBuk.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/EBuk.JPG" width="287" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I've often been intrigued by this window for a store somewhere upstairs at 151 Spring St., which showcases eclectic and often eccentric antiques. Finally reading the text in that small frame, I discovered this is the display for <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ebuk.com/" target="_blank">E. Buk Antiques</a>, which sells oddball items and quirky collectibles, and rents historically accurate props for movie, television, and photography studios. Honestly fascinating.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Theory.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Theory.JPG" width="372" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Another storefront with distracting text, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theory.com/en-us/#/en-us" target="_blank">Theory</a>, at 151 Spring St., otherwise has a direct approach to showcasing its clothing that I appreciate. (Although I keep thinking of Marge Simpson telling her family, "We can't afford to shop anywhere that has a philosophy.") I love the striped sweater in the middle. I'm not completely convinced by the messy black-and-white checked print on the flanking mannequins, but it's not offensive.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ComptoirDesCotonniers.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ComptoirDesCotonniers.JPG" width="400" height="387" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.comptoirdescotonniers.com/" target="_blank">Comptoir des Cotonniers</a>, at 155 Spring St. I dig how their storefront is designed as a classic house window. The pinkish dress is almost cute, but the proportions are strange . . . it seems too short below that waist panel . . . and the cap sleeves throw off the whole look. The sleek gray trenchcoat is fab, though, as are the scrunchy leather boots.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AtelierMinyon.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AtelierMinyon.JPG" width="239" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Also sharing 155 Spring St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.atelierminyon.com/" target="_blank">Atelier Minyon</a>, showcasing their Ottoman Empire-inspired handcrafted jewelry. I love the repeated crescent moon symbol (which the Ottoman Empire adopted after conquering Constantinople, and later came to represent Islam in general), especially on the towering bronze display tower. The full window display of their glittering jewelry is opulently overwhelming, but all my other photos showing the complete sweep of gems and gold came out blurry.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/WinkE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/WinkE.JPG" width="387" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Here's the eastern side of the window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.winknyc.com/" target="_blank">Wink</a> (155 Spring St.). Even though at first glance, the storefront appears cluttered, the display somehow manages to give each item its due. Someone understands the progression of eye movement! The store also has an inviting thrift-store atmosphere, although I'm honestly not greatly impacted by the apparel itself, even though I appreciate the styling.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/WinkW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/WinkW.JPG" width="259" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The western side of the window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.winknyc.com/" target="_blank">Wink</a>. That's a chic hat, and while the bag may be too much, at least it's black.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/SunglassHut.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/SunglassHut.JPG" width="400" height="360" /></a><br /></div>At the busy corner of Spring St. and West Broadway is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sunglasshut.com/sgh/index.jsp#view=close" target="_blank">Sunglass Hut</a> (157 Spring St.), for all your overpriced sunglasses needs. The clerk was sitting in this window, talking on her cell phone, when I first started taking pictures. When she spotted me, she <span style="font-style: italic;">bolted </span>into the back of the store. Either she really hates having her picture taken, or she was afraid she'd get busted by her boss for chatting on her phone during work hours.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/1950726324429799241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=1950726324429799241&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/1950726324429799241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/1950726324429799241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-st-north-side-between-wooster-st.html' title='Spring St. (North Side, between Wooster St. and West Broadway)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-2532890904792029084</id><published>2009-02-22T13:46:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T18:12:38.978-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Burberry"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chanel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Diesel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="street vendors"/><title type='text'>Spring St. (North Side, between Greene St. and Wooster St.)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: left;">More pictures from the evening of February 17 (yes, I took a lot of pictures during that session), heading west on the north side of Spring St. from Greene St. to Wooster St. Next time, I'll try not to take pictures during rush hour, as there was too much pedestrian traffic. Honestly, though, I'm not sure what the best time is to take pictures on Spring St. -- it's <span style="font-style: italic;">always </span>crowded.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BurberryE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BurberryE.JPG" width="262" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Here's the eastern window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.burberry.com/" target="_blank">Burberry</a>, at 131 Spring St. All together, the outfit is fashionable enough in a uptight, upper-crust casual sort of way, and the long jacket would hide more egregious ass issues, but that high-waisted pleated pant with the belt and the skin-tight top looks specifically designed to highlight a poochy stomach. The knotted ropes holding up the placards are a nice nautical touch that meshes well with the store's preppy aesthetic.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BurberryW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BurberryW.JPG" width="213" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Not a bad effort toward glitzy evening sparkle in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.burberry.com/" target="_blank">Burberry</a>'s western window. The long "ties" are a little too busy when mixed with that long necklace, though, and I'm uncertain about the ankle boots. On one hand, I think the boots are kind of cute with the dress ending above the knee . . . but on the other hand, the boots also look like a businessman's black socks in that awkward, vulnerable moment just after he takes off his trousers.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/DieselE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/DieselE.JPG" width="312" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This sepia-soaked, theatrical display of a decrepit tenement room is in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.diesel.com/" target="_blank">Diesel</a>'s eastern window at 135 Spring St. I give them major props for the effort of building such an authentically squalid set, but I'm also reminded of the Derelicte fashion show in <span style="font-style: italic;">Zoolander </span>. . . and of the Nine Inch Nails video for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLq_wie8CRc"><span style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Closer</span></a>. As for the apparel itself, well, there's not much here, really. That's a cool enough brown shoe on the chair, and the scarf hanging on the wall has some style. I'm not positive what item of apparel that scarf is paired with, though . . . could that be a long wifebeater with a hoodie? Or just a rumpled sack dress? This is why mannequins come in handy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/DieselM.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/DieselM.JPG" width="325" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Another of the funky <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.diesel.com/" target="_blank">Diesel</a> windows with their tenement set. I remember in my 7th Grade art class, my teacher told me to leave out all the wires and outlets from the baseboards, unless I wanted the room I was drawing to look specifically sordid and busy. So, here: specifically sordid and busy, but rather lovely in an Ashcan-school sort of way. I believe I already owned that shirt in 1986, when I was aiming for a cool New Wave look with touches of Goth. I guess that can come back.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/DieselE-1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/DieselE-1.JPG" width="391" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The westernmost <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.diesel.com/" target="_blank">Diesel</a> window, alongside the entrance. I do like their purposefully edgy and schlumpy aesthetic, but has anyone else noticed how surprisingly <span style="font-style: italic;">uncomfortable </span>Diesel clothes can be? It's like they're factory-imbued with scratchy starch.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/beanievendor.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/beanievendor.JPG" width="400" height="297" /></a><br /></div>A street vendor's tables displaying skull-emblazoned beanies and scarves with roses. The booth appeared abandoned, with no actual vendor in sight. He was probably off keeping warm somewhere . . . it was <span style="font-style: italic;">frigid </span>outside, and my hands were getting chapped holding the camera.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ChanelE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ChanelE.JPG" width="332" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Ah, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chanel.com/" target="_blank">Chanel</a>. 139 Spring St., on the Spring St. side. This is taken from the easternmost window, although these mannequins are in the center of the store, as though they were discriminating patrons themselves. Having money is the only excuse to wear that color. What <span style="font-style: italic;">is </span>that color, anyway . . . coral? Clownfish? Clementine? I love the way the poster in the background appears to hover in the middle of the store, like an apparition of Ophelia floating by.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ChanelM.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ChanelM.JPG" width="400" height="391" /></a><br /></div>A <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chanel.com/" target="_blank">Chanel</a> purse and sunglasses. I say that flourichon on the purse is too much. Cute little planner, though. Mary J. Blige could rock those sunglasses.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ChanelW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ChanelW.JPG" width="248" height="400" /></a><br /></div>An impressive goddess gown on the front mannequin in the westernmost <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chanel.com/" target="_blank">Chanel</a> window. The back mannequin is wearing the kind of power trousers that Chanel perfected.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/NewYorkervendor.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/NewYorkervendor.JPG" width="400" height="160" /></a><br /></div>Right outside the Chanel shop, this <span style="font-style: italic;">New Yorker</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Vogue </span>cover art street vendor has taken shelter in his car. I first saw <span style="font-style: italic;">New Yorker</span> covers for sale at a street vendor's booth up by Central Park, and I was going to buy a few, but then I realized that they were just color printouts in cheap frames, so I made my own at home.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/2532890904792029084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=2532890904792029084&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/2532890904792029084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/2532890904792029084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-st-north-side-between-greene-st.html' title='Spring St. (North Side, between Greene St. and Wooster St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-6565407999305677317</id><published>2009-02-21T13:55:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T14:47:14.368-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Agnes B."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Anne Fontaine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Armani Casa"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="BAPE"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Greene St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="La Perla"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Natuzzi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="posters"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Space NK"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Taschen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tous"/><title type='text'>Greene St. (West Side, between Prince St. and Spring St., Part 2)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">We now continue on our further adventures down Greene St., heading south from Prince St. to Spring St. on the evening of February 17.<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Touswide.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Touswide.JPG" width="400" height="392" /></a><br /></div>Located at 109 Greene St. is the jewelry shop <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://tous-shop.com/eng/index.php" target="_blank">Tous</a>. Say "hi" to Kylie Minogue in the background! Apparently, Kylie designed some of the items.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Tousclose.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Tousclose.JPG" width="400" height="179" /></a><br /></div>A closeup of the jewelry featured in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://tous-shop.com/eng/index.php" target="_blank">Tous</a> window display case. Much of it has an elegant, delicate filigree, and I'm enamored of the long necklace with the irregular translucent gemstones in subtle shades.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Taschen.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Taschen.JPG" width="400" height="250" /></a><br /></div>I feel apologetic about this photo of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/stores/979.store_new_york.htm" target="_blank">Taschen</a> (107 Greene St.) storefront window. The picture doesn't capture the intriguing playfulness of the bookstore's interior, with its artfully warped shelves, warm, inviting lighting, and poppy wall art. The window display is appropriately messily sexy for <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/01092/facts.bettina_rheims_the_book_of_olga.htm" target="_blank">The Book of Olga</a>, a limited-edition book that was commissioned from photographer Bettina Rheims by a Russian oligarch to showcase his hot wife, Olga Rodionova. On the right, I again apologize for blurring the Pierre et Gilles book <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/01064/facts.pierre_et_gilles_double_je_1976_2007.htm" target="_blank">Double Je</a>, especially since I just adore their dreamlike yet crystalline fantasy photography.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AgnesBHomme.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AgnesBHomme.JPG" width="246" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The northern window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.agnesb.com/front/usa_en.jsp" target="_blank">Agnes B.</a> (103 Greene St.) is evidently the "Homme" display, although I can't say that's the most masculine of outfits. It's quite upscale gay, really . . . although pleasantly clean-cut.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AgnesBFemme.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AgnesBFemme.JPG" width="346" height="400" /></a><br /></div>A simple belted sleeveless sack in the southern "Femme" window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.agnesb.com/front/usa_en.jsp" target="_blank">Agnes B.</a> The color is bland enough to shift attention to the wearer, and the lines of the dress are flattering, but I don't know . . . I keep picturing Wendie Malick wearing it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Natuzzi.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Natuzzi.JPG" width="212" height="400" /></a><br /></div>A gorgeously comforting window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://soho.natuzziamericas.com/" target="_blank">Natuzzi</a> (101 Greene St.). I covet those lamps, and I want my entire life to be lived in that kind of soothing, honeyed light. I personally would never buy any white furniture because of the required vigilance of cleanliness, but that chair does appear to be very soft.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/SpaceNKtall.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/SpaceNKtall.JPG" width="337" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Did you know that beauty is a treasure hunt? So says <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.spacenk.co.uk/" target="_blank">Space NK</a> (99 Greene St.)! I get that they're going for a clean, clinical, streamlined look, but I keep thinking <span style="font-style: italic;">alien autopsy</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/SpaceNKclose.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/SpaceNKclose.JPG" width="400" height="247" /></a><br /></div>A closeup of the chilly window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.spacenk.co.uk/" target="_blank">Space NK</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ArmaniCasaN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ArmaniCasaN.JPG" width="363" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Alas, I must apologize again for my photos of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.armanicasa.com/armani_casa_docs/en/index.html" target="_blank">Armani/Casa</a> at 97 Greene St. This is perhaps my favorite storefront in SoHo, and the window's somber, hushed atmosphere is lusciously cozy in person, and not indicative in my picture. I had to use a flash to avoid blurring, ruining the luxurious, plush murk of the display. When I get rich (however that might happen), I'm walking into this store and hiring them to furnish my entire home.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ArmaniCaseS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ArmaniCaseS.JPG" width="352" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The southern window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.armanicasa.com/armani_casa_docs/en/index.html" target="_blank">Armani/Casa</a>, photographed with no flash, as evidenced by the blurry trails around the lamp. As much as I adore this store, I'm not sure what room this is meant to showcase. It looks mostly like a women's rest room parlor in a swanky hotel.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnneFontaine.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnneFontaine.JPG" width="347" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.annefontaine.com/" target="_blank">Anne Fontaine</a> storefront at 93 Greene St. Those blouses and bags are so terribly French that they're edging over into caricature. That pink belt just looks slutty.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/LaPerla.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/LaPerla.JPG" width="400" height="247" /></a><br /></div>Speaking of slutty, here's the storefront of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.laperla.com/" target="_blank">La Perla</a> at 93 Greene St. Yes, everyone deserves some sexy undergarments, but I'm not sure if displaying it in the setting of the Red Light District in Amsterdam doesn't tip the fantasy from sexy into sleazy. But maybe women are seeking a touch of Euroskank in their frilly unmentionables, and if so, God bless.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BAPEtall.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BAPEtall.JPG" width="253" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bape.com/#/shop" target="_blank">BAPE</a>, at 90 Greene St., compels one bow down to this impressive mirrored shrine to the sneaker. The full name of the store is A Bathing Ape, and I'm not sure if that's an easy fit with this shop's overwhelming opulence.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BAPEclose.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BAPEclose.JPG" width="400" height="74" /></a><br /></div>A closeup of the mirrored sneaker carousel at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bape.com/#/shop" target="_blank">BAPE</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/posters.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/posters.JPG" width="247" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Intriguing guerrilla poster art in a doorway on Greene St., near Spring St. Those are some perky orange nipples in the top poster! (By <a href="http://www.celsoart.com/" target="_blank">Celso</a>, I think.) But I'm most taken with the text on the bottom poster: <span style="font-style: italic;">Good guys finish last. Tedi pees the bed. I saw u with Todd. Ha ha ha ha. New York City Girl Beef. </span> Good work, <a href="http://www.streetsy.com/streetsy/tag/haculla/" target="_blank">Haculla</a>.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/6565407999305677317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=6565407999305677317&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/6565407999305677317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/6565407999305677317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/greene-st-west-side-between-prince-st_21.html' title='Greene St. (West Side, between Prince St. and Spring St., Part 2)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-541978092719166912</id><published>2009-02-21T11:50:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T12:06:34.775-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Adriano Goldschmied"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Anna Sui"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Anya Hindmarch"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Greene St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tarina Tarantino"/><title type='text'>Greene St. (West Side, between Prince St. and Spring St., Part 1)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">More pictures from the evening of February 17, walking down the south side of Greene St., between Prince St. and Spring St.<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/TarinaTarantino.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/TarinaTarantino.JPG" width="400" height="389" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At 117 Greene St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tarinatarantino.com/" target="_blank">Tarina Tarantino</a>, displaying adorably girly costume jewelry. I'm far from immune to the quirky, colorful femininity showcased in this storefront. It's just so dress-up <span style="font-style: italic;">princessy</span>. Where's my purple crystal tiara?<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Tarinasidetall.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Tarinasidetall.JPG" width="236" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The small side display case of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tarinatarantino.com/" target="_blank">Tarina Tarantino</a>. I took a tall shot here to show off that awesome bordello-wallpaper vertical sign, and the cartoon-sexy bottom panel.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/TarinaTarantinosideclose.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/TarinaTarantinosideclose.JPG" width="342" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Here's a closeup of small side display case of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tarinatarantino.com/" target="_blank">Tarina Tarantino</a>. Those yellow beads just <span style="font-style: italic;">glow</span>, and I love the gaudy, historical-chic cameo pieces. My mother had a much more demure cameo of Mary, Queen of Scots that she often wore pinned to her silk business blouses, so I'm a sucker for oval cameos, even when the silhouette is set on a tangerine background.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnyaHindmarchwide.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnyaHindmarchwide.JPG" width="400" height="323" /></a><br /></div>Next door to the south is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.anyahindmarch.com/" target="_blank">Anya Hindmarch</a>'s designer bag store at 115 Greene St. The big, obviously roomy bag has gorgeous natural leather, and that white clutch has an elegant modernist simplicity.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnyaHindmarchtall.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnyaHindmarchtall.JPG" width="204" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Here's the south side of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.anyahindmarch.com/" target="_blank">Anya Hindmarch</a> window, with a large, practical day bag that whispers tasteful, moneyed granny. The petite, chic evening clutch is cute, but perhaps a little too hand-painted crafts-fair in appearance to satisfy its aspiration to be an expensive luxury item.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnnaSui.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AnnaSui.JPG" width="276" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The wacky window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.annasui.com/" target="_blank">Anna Sui</a> at 113 Greene St. supplies a blast of eccentric energy. The dresses featured are quite cute, although the purple and red retro one strikes me as being more of a costume than an appropriate party dress . . . although maybe that opinion is colored by the mannequin's eye patch. I am a fan of that big gold messenger bag with tassels, though.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AdrianoGoldschmied.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AdrianoGoldschmied.JPG" width="400" height="354" /></a><br /></div>At 111 Greene St. is the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.agjeans.com/" target="_blank">Adriano Goldschmied</a> store, better known as simply AG Jeans. The shop has been growing in reputation as the hot spot for vintage-inspired denim. While they're visually arresting, I'm not sure those hanging wire-forms make the jeans look all that flattering. They appear wet and wrinkled (or perhaps <span style="font-style: italic;">shellacked</span>), and is there anything more uncomfortable than wearing wet jeans?</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/541978092719166912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=541978092719166912&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/541978092719166912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/541978092719166912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/greene-st-west-side-between-prince-st.html' title='Greene St. (West Side, between Prince St. and Spring St., Part 1)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-2306819645040099708</id><published>2009-02-19T23:07:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T23:12:19.981-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Andrianna Shamaris"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Babette"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cite"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Glory Chen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Greene St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kisan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pomegranate Gallery"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Replay"/><title type='text'>Greene St. (West Side, between West Broadway and Prince St.)</title><content type='html'>I had to be out of my apartment all afternoon on February 17 while it was being cleaned, so I went to see the movie <span style="font-style: italic;">Doubt </span>(quite fabulous and affecting), and then headed back downtown to take pictures. My goal was to attempt to photograph windows just past dusk, when the storefronts would be fully illuminated, but before the stores started closing their protective metal grates. I figured maybe I could eliminate most of the reflections in the window glass if I relied on the displays' lights after the sun had set. Results were mixed, as my photography skills are still disappointingly lacking, but I did manage to add to my repertoire of effects.<br /><br />These were all taken on the west side of Greene St., heading downtown from West Broadway to Prince St.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BabetteN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BabetteN.JPG" width="242" height="400" /></a><br /></div>At 137 Greene St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.babettesf.com/" target="_blank">Babette</a>, with some hot librarian outfits in their northern window. I like how the clothes represent so many dichotomies: sexy/dowdy; revealing/demure; modern/historical; American/European; casual/classy; schoolgirl/biddy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BabetteS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/BabetteS.JPG" width="242" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.babettesf.com/" target="_blank">Babette</a>'s southern window. Great colors on the right mannequin: a lovely yellow blouse with a nice black placket over a cute, grass-colored shirt, all atop a warm, crinkled-linen long skirt. Both schoolmarmish and approachable. I like the touch of surprise in the right mannequin's pose, too -- she's may lose her shoe! But the silhouette of the outfit on the left seems too fussy, and looks as though both the pants and top have been put on backward.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Pomegranate.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Pomegranate.JPG" width="372" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pomgallery.com/" target="_blank">Pomegranate Gallery</a> is located at 133 Greene St., and is dedicated to introducing Americans to Middle Eastern art. Is that grid illustrating "Iraqi Art Today" supposed to reference the PC game <span style="font-style: italic;">Minesweeper</span>?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Cite.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Cite.JPG" width="268" height="400" /></a><br /></div>It's an <span style="font-style: italic;">avalanche sale</span> at <a href="http://www.citenyc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cite</span></a> (131 Greene St.)! Has anyone heard that term before, <span style="font-style: italic;">avalanche sale</span>? I get what they're going for, a really big, out-of-control sale, but I'm not sure I'm down with this expansion of the word <span style="font-style: italic;">avalanche</span>. It's not a reference to a specific designer's furniture -- I checked. Anyway, I usually like Cite's chunky square furniture, but that chair looks awkward and uncomfortable, and I really dislike the burgundy color. And ugh, what is that furry pillow? It looks like diseased coral. Yuck.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Kisan.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/Kisan.JPG" width="280" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Zebras! <span style="font-style: italic;">Baby </span>zebras! I have trouble looking away from the stuffed animals in the window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kisanstore.com/" target="_blank">Kisan</a> (125 Greene St.) in order to pay attention to those smocky black-and-white outfits. The red bag is cool, anyway . . . although the whole display starts to remind of the old joke, What's black and white and red all over? <span style="font-style: italic;">An embarrassed zebra!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/GloryChen.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/GloryChen.JPG" width="400" height="167" /></a><br /></div>Nice, simple, sophisticated shoes in pleasant colors in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.glorychen.com/" target="_blank">Glory Chen</a> shop at 121 Greene St.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AndrianaShamaris.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/AndrianaShamaris.JPG" width="375" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The economy's got to be hitting the chunky-marble-sideboard and big-hunk-of-driftwood market pretty hard, right? These objects in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.andriannashamaris.com/" target="_blank">Andrianna Shamaris</a> (121 Greene St.) window remind me of the art and decor in the country house in <span style="font-style: italic;">Beetlejuice</span>, after Catherine O'Hara takes over with her "city" taste.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayKids1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayKids1.JPG" width="273" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The huge <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/" target="_blank">Replay</a> store at 109 Prince St. has seven windows on its Greene St. side alone! The clothes are aimed at such a classic casual American aesthetic that I had no idea that Replay was actually an Italian company. Starting from the northernmost window, we get basic kids' clothes with some nice pocket details on the pants. I really like the gentle flare of the longer trouser. Plus I adore that wooden hedgehog cutout lurking in the bottom left corner!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayKids2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayKids2.JPG" width="328" height="400" /></a><br /></div>That's an adorable white-and-blue spring dress on the creepy wire-headed child mannequin in this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/" target="_blank">Replay</a> window. The other outfits don't differ much from what you might find at Old Navy. The wooden bunny silhouettes on the bottom are cute enough, but the naked pressboard of the big flower is a bit distracting.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayKids3.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayKids3.JPG" width="340" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Okay, the kids' clothes are passably cute in this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/">Replay</a> window, but those wire-headed mannequins are now reminding me of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti" target="_blank">Giacometti</a> sculptures, which in turn have always struck me as frighteningly post-nuclear. That bear in the bag with the schmatta on its head just looks miserable.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayMens1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayMens1.JPG" width="227" height="400" /></a><br /></div>More <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/" target="_blank">Replay</a>. I'm glad lighter jeans are coming back in . . . I was so sick of the dark, dirty-looking ones in the heavy, distressed denim.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayWoman.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayWoman.JPG" width="280" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Despite the cute nipped waist on the cropped jacket, that bland beige-on-white outfit in this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/" target="_blank">Replay</a> window washes even that mannequin out. She's quite the messy painter, no? Why is she painting in slime-green anyway?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayMens2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayMens2.JPG" width="154" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I <span style="font-style: italic;">love </span>that sweater in this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/" target="_blank">Replay</a> window. The leather gym bag with the strap is quite chic, too. But why are the mannequin's hands a different color than his head? If those are supposed to be leather gloves worn only with a sweater, I don't think I can support that.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayMens3.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/GreeneSpring21709/ReplayMens3.JPG" width="225" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Basic collegiate clothing in the southernmost <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.replay.it/" target="_blank">Replay</a> window on Greene St. On the mannequin on the left, that bag is too purse-like to really accent that outfit's nerdy masculinity. For the mannequin on the right, let me just say that I refuse to wear any item of clothing with a label as obvious as that. If I'm going to be a walking billboard for a brand, they'd better cut me a big check.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/2306819645040099708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=2306819645040099708&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/2306819645040099708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/2306819645040099708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/greene-st-west-side-between-west.html' title='Greene St. (West Side, between West Broadway and Prince St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-6346837026581940747</id><published>2009-02-16T01:53:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T03:24:59.970-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="maps"/><title type='text'>New SoHo Map!</title><content type='html'>Thanks to my friend Gail, I no longer have to have a stolen map up there on the top right of the blog sidebar . . . she made me a new one! So big appreciation to her for that.<br /><br />Gail said I should also give thanks to the <a href="http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/mp/Portal.do" target="_blank">City of New York</a> for making their Geographic Information Systems (GIS) free and accessible. Thanks, NYC!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SoHo%20map.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Map" src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SoHo%20map.jpg" width="544" height="500" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SoHo%20map.jpg" target="_blank">Click the map to embiggen in a new window.</a></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/6346837026581940747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=6346837026581940747&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/6346837026581940747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/6346837026581940747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-soho-map.html' title='New SoHo Map!'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-3468889870458614380</id><published>2009-02-16T00:26:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T03:24:39.007-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Carrol Boyes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Face Stockholm"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="forgotten signs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fragments"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Karen Millen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kidrobot"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Morrison Hotel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Prince St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Reinstein Ross"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="street vendors"/><title type='text'>Prince St. (South Side, between Wooster St. and Greene St.)</title><content type='html'>Heading east on the south side of Prince St., from Wooster St. to Greene St., around 3:30 in the afternoon on February 10. An unseasonably warm, overcast day. The streets were teeming with tourists.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Boyes.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Boyes.JPG" width="400" height="351" /></a><br /></div>In the storefront of 126 Prince St. is the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.carrolboyes.com/" target="_blank">Carrol Boyes</a> shop, showing her range of handcrafted metal flatware and tableware. There are some odd, unique, little gifty things in here that look pretty interesting, but the window itself suffers from overkill -- with all the glittering objects, it's difficult to focus on any one thing. The hanging paper sculptures aren't helping the clutter issue. Although I do love the chunky people drawings on the ceiling.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Boyeshandle.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Boyeshandle.JPG" width="176" height="400" /></a><br /></div>There's a terrific handmade handle on the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.carrolboyes.com/" target="_blank">Carrol Boyes</a> store door.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Boyessign.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Boyessign.JPG" width="400" height="202" /></a><br /></div>I just love these leftover signs around the city. This rusted old sign is advertising "Commercial Printing, Stationery, Office Supplies, Paper &amp; Twine." Something about this relic really reminds me of an old-school Main Street shop.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/MorrisonHotel.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/MorrisonHotel.JPG" width="400" height="327" /></a><br /></div>The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/" target="_blank">Morrison Hotel Gallery</a>, at 124 Prince St., always has cool photos of rock stars in their window. I dig the anti-pose Kurt Cobain is striking in the big central photo (by <a href="http://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographer/default.aspx?photographerID=80" target="_blank">Jesse Frohman</a>), and the sleepy, shirtless Miles Davis pic on the left.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/RR.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/RR.JPG" width="400" height="397" /></a><br /></div>The painted jeweled frame in the window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reinsteinross.com/About.html" target="_blank">Reinstein/Ross</a> (122 Prince St.) is memorable, and harks toward the store's Egyptian and Etruscan jewelry designs, but the display case is far back away from the window, and lit so that it glows like a sci-fi incubator, making everything in it difficult to see from the street. Also, the security guard (seen as a creepy shadow in the bottom right corner of the photo) glares at everyone who walks by.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/kidrobotW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/kidrobotW.JPG" width="400" height="312" /></a><br /></div>At 118 Prince St. is ultra-modern toy and clothing store <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kidrobot.com/content.cfm?section=nystore" target="_blank">Kidrobot</a>. Apparently, that giant blue thing in the window is called a <a href="http://www.kidrobot.com/products2.cfm?ID=7256&amp;cfid=12108978&amp;cftoken=80163384&amp;nav_chooser=&amp;dept=TOYS&amp;typ=KIDROBOT">Munny</a>, and is made of inflatable vinyl. Although my eye is more quickly drawn to the gleeful Paul McCartney figure by <a href="http://www.medicomtoy.co.jp/index.html" target="_blank">Medicomtoy</a>. The mannequin modeling the fitted hoodie and skinny jeans needs to eat a sandwich, <span style="font-style: italic;">stat</span>, even if she makes for a rather cute nerd girl. I prefer my geeky girlfriends without the horrifying eating disorders.<br /><br />Yes, I realize I'm anthropomorphizing all these mannequins. But isn't that the <span style="font-style: italic;">point </span>of mannequins?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/kidrobotE.JPG"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/kidrobotE.JPG" width="246" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kidrobot.com/content.cfm?section=nystore" target="_blank">Kidrobot</a>'s eastern window. Is this what the cool kids are wearing these days? I guess the outfits are working that retro-future vibe, but I personally would rather expire than wear a giant, useless safety-pin jammed into the front of my cap.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Fragmentswider.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Fragmentswider.JPG" width="387" height="400" /></a><br /></div>That's a lot of pink butterflies! <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fragments.com/" target="_blank">Fragments</a>, at 116 Prince St., adds a splash of color to their winter window. I can take or leave the dead trees and fake snow, but I dig the diorama in the middle.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Fragmentsclose.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Fragmentsclose.JPG" width="301" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I don't know if <a href="http://www.josephcornellbox.com/" target="_blank">Joseph Cornell</a> would love or loathe this "box" in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fragments.com/" target="_blank">Fragments</a> window, but I think it works as a great way to make the scale of a full storefront feel more intimate, and sets the jewelry in an unexpected surrealist pastoral narrative.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/KarenMillenW.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/KarenMillenW.JPG" width="257" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.karenmillen.com/" target="_blank">Karen Millen</a> flagship store is located at 112-114 Prince St. While I lost some of the photos of the other windows due to reflections and glare (and, um . . . focus), the blend of the snappy green military coat, the mannequin's pose, and the lights all work together to make the image feel quite ecstatic.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/KarenMillenE.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/KarenMillenE.JPG" width="257" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Not sure what to say about this display at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.karenmillen.com/" target="_blank">Karen Millen</a>, except if this alabaster creature greeted me at the door of a fancy dinner party, I'm not sure if I would pretend not to notice that she looks like a refugee from the attenuated aliens of <span style="font-style: italic;">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</span> . . . or if I would run screaming. Nice, simple, flowy black dress, though, even if the pleats give her a rounded mound of tummy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/FaceDoor.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/FaceDoor.JPG" width="257" height="400" /></a><br /></div>At 110 Prince St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facestockholm.com/" target="_blank">Face Stockholm</a>, a Swedish cosmetics and skin care shop. This is the view through the door, as they don't do much with the storefront on the Prince St. side. I like the interior's aesthetic combination of apothecary shop and boudoir.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/FaceHeads.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/FaceHeads.JPG" width="400" height="246" /></a><br /></div>But my favorite thing about <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facestockholm.com/" target="_blank">Face Stockholm</a>'s shop is that row of busts on top of the cabinet in the back. Freaky and fabulous.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/streetjewelry.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/streetjewelry.JPG" width="400" height="238" /></a><br /></div>A jewelry street vendor on the corner of Prince St. and Greene St. The guy hunched over was busy twisting wire for new ornaments created on the spot. This booth means business -- they take VISA, MasterCard, or American Express! I do enjoy the serious sparseness of their display.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/3468889870458614380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=3468889870458614380&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/3468889870458614380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/3468889870458614380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/prince-st-south-side-between-wooster-st.html' title='Prince St. (South Side, between Wooster St. and Greene St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-6371255620261182757</id><published>2009-02-13T14:56:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T14:16:14.315-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Metropolitan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Trump"/><title type='text'>Trumping</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Trumped.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Trumped.JPG" width="285" height="400" /></a><br /></div>After months of a stop-work injunction that kept construction on the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.trumpsoho.com/" target="_blank">Trump SoHo Hotel Condominium</a> (warning: site has nasty automatic music) ground to an unfinished halt, I've noticed over the past few weeks that the little external construction elevators are moving again, and the glass panels are once again climbing toward the top. I found an unsurprising article in the <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/building-permit-for-trump-soho-tower-is-upheld/" target="_blank">New York Times</a> that talks about Trump getting his building permit upheld after it was called into question.<br /><br />Yes, it's entirely out of place in the neighborhood, and yes, it damages the small-village character of SoHo. But I can't fight Trump, so I've decided to get used to that glass monstrosity towering over everything. The picture above is from February 10th, from Spring St., near Thompson St., at dusk.<br /><br />I was standing in front of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.themetlumber.com/" target="_blank">Metropolitan Hardware</a> . . . note the little forklift in the bottom left corner.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/6371255620261182757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=6371255620261182757&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/6371255620261182757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/6371255620261182757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/trumping.html' title='Trumping'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-4162975564015788274</id><published>2009-02-13T13:51:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T15:09:32.620-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Amalga"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barney's CO-OP"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="BCBG Max Azria"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chanel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eres"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Giggle"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Korres"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="m0851"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pleats Please Issey Miyake"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="São"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tibi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wooster St."/><title type='text'>Wooster St. (East Side, between Spring St. and Prince St.)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Tuesday, February 10 was unseasonably warm here in SoHo . . . close to 65°F! Which meant that the neighborhood was jam-packed with shoppers, and I was doing a little back-and-forth, wait-to-shoot, wave-them-past sidewalk dance to take these pictures.<br /><br />These shots were taken on the east side of Wooster St., heading north from Spring St. to Prince St. We're up to the glitzier stores in the village mall now.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelS1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelS1.JPG" width="220" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chanel.com/" target="_blank">Chanel</a>, sweetie-darling, Chanel. 139 Spring St. These pictures are from the Wooster St. side only. Yes, they're absolutely fabulous, and reek of Patsy Stone. I do rather adore the man's houndstooth hat balanced on the femme's upsweep. The expression of the model on the right makes me think that Mrs. Dalloway decided to buy the flowers herself.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelS2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelS2.JPG" width="382" height="289" /></a><br /></div>Ladies of a certain age, don't drool on your keyboard. Terribly difficult to clean.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelN1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelN1.JPG" width="270" height="400" /></a><br /></div>That navy dress is gorgeous; love the stitching detail. And the white pants would look fantastic on Kelly Rutherford on <span style="font-style: italic;">Gossip Girl</span>, although she would fill out that top much better.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelN2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/ChanelN2.JPG" width="356" height="400" /></a><br /></div>You older gals, didn't I tell you what would happen if you didn't quit that messy drooling?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/EresS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/EresS.JPG" width="294" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.eresparis.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Eres</a>, at 98 Wooster St. <span style="font-style: italic;">Please be wearing the giant panties!</span> Although the affectless expression on the mannequins' faces makes this window look like a Stepford Wife showroom showcase.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/EresM.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/EresM.JPG" width="286" height="400" /></a><br /></div>More <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.eresparis.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Eres</a>. Those are happy, fun colors for swimsuits, but the headbands are rather awkwardly retro, and the mustard and ochre ones are just plain ugly.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/EresN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/EresN.JPG" width="197" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The northernmost window of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.eresparis.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Eres</a>. That's a pretty sexy bra to be wearing with those dowdy pajamas. I kind of like the Olympic-inspired swimsuit in the back. More stupid headbands. Really, they look like misplaced belts.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/m0851S.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/m0851S.JPG" width="400" height="276" /></a><br /></div>Quite safari, quite Kristin Scott Thomas. Although I like the lines of the hooded white raincoat in the back, especially with the big buttons, and paired with that red bag. Not sure what the point is of the high breast zippers on the jacket on the right. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.m0851.com/#/en" target="_blank">m0851</a>, at 106 Wooster St, south window.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/m0851N.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/m0851N.JPG" width="400" height="342" /></a><br /></div>I'm coveting that raincoat on the left; elegant yet casual simplicity. Not loving the hooded leather jacket, especially not with a blue-gray messenger bag. The short, fitted white jacket in the back, paired with that red messenger bag, seems a little too British nurse, circa WWI. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.m0851.com/#/en" target="_blank">m0851</a>, north window.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Korres.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Korres.JPG" width="308" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Ugh, I loathe that ugly sailor-tattoo V in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.korres.com/" target="_blank">Korres</a> window at 110 Wooster St. What does that have to do with homeopathic Greek moisturizer?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Sao.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Sao.JPG" width="400" height="328" /></a><br /></div>You're not allowed to wear any of the items in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.saonewyork.com/" target="_blank">São</a> window (112 Wooster St.) until after you've had your first face lift. But I am not immune to the charms of the nubbly red jacket hanging in a picture frame; love that collar.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/WyldeS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/WyldeS.JPG" width="285" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Okay. This is the southern window at multi-label <span style="font-weight: bold;">Amalga</span>, at 114 Wooster St. This is a store that prides itself on "Japanese niche brands and ultramodern pieces" with a "casual, goth-y rock &amp; roll flair" . . . and that has to do with hanging rows of leather sausages how, exactly? I have to admit that the acid tag on the window does support the punk-Goth ambiance nicely.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/WyldeN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/WyldeN.JPG" width="349" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I believe (from the lettering on the glass) that these are Thomas Wylde Resort Collection items in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Amalga </span>northern window. I have to say, I rather love the Gothic flapper style. It's difficult to be both hard-edged and feminine, and these pull it off.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BarneysS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BarneysS.JPG" width="293" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Heinous nastiness on the Tiffany-blue mannequins in the south window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.barneys.com/" target="_blank">Barney's CO-OP</a> (116 Wooster St.). Let's see . . . smocky black-and-white kulottes? Flower/lepoard-print slutwear? A hippy gray gingham nightmare? Awful. But (up to) 75% off!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BarneysN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BarneysN.JPG" width="373" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The northern window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.barneys.com/" target="_blank">Barney's CO-OP</a> is infinitely better. Those sweaters are perfectly wearable.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Giggle.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Giggle.JPG" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /></div>I get that <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.giggle.com/" target="_blank">Giggle</a> (120 Wooster St.) wants to show off their cute pink sheet sets, but that crib setup doesn't leave a lot of room for the baby . . . unless you want a princess-and-the-pea, falling-onto-the-floor sort of situation. Those big plastic babies are right on the edge of cute and horrifying, but I'm going to go with "cute" so I don't have nightmares.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/tibi.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/tibi.JPG" width="354" height="400" /></a><br /></div>All right, I can see the Twiggy '60s Mod thing working on the mannequin on the right in the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tibi.com/" target="_blank">tibi</a> (120 Wooster St.) storefront, but what's the matter with the mannequin collapsed on the floor? I suppose the relaxed pose and embellished tank-top are meant to suggest a certain casualness, but I keep thinking she's going to burst into over-dramatic sobs.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BCBG.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BCBG.JPG" width="356" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Also at 120 Wooster St. is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bcbg.com/home/index.jsp" target="_blank">BCBG Max Azria</a>, with frilly dresses in painful colors. Plus floating lime-green umbrellas.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BCBGinside.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/BCBGinside.JPG" width="327" height="400" /></a><br /></div>A picture of the inside of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bcbg.com/home/index.jsp" target="_blank">BCBG Max Azria</a> store, taken through the open doorway. Is Falcon Crest back on the air?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/MiyakeWooster.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/MiyakeWooster.JPG" width="400" height="317" /></a><br /></div>Now that's a gorgeous yellow! <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pleatsplease.com/" target="_blank">Pleats Please Issey Miyake</a>, at 128 Wooster St. It's hard to make a burnt orange happy and feminine, but these manage it somehow.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Miyakecorner.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/Miyakecorner.JPG" width="276" height="400" /></a><br /></div>More happy springtime clothes in the corner window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pleatsplease.com/" target="_blank">Pleats Please Issey Miyake</a>. I love the geometric bags. (Picture taken from Prince St. side.)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/MiyakePrince.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WoosterPrince021109/MiyakePrince.JPG" width="327" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Another shot of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pleatsplease.com/" target="_blank">Pleats Please Issey Miyake</a> storefront from the Prince St. side. While the first few hanging articles might be too busy (and loud), I adore that soft blue in the middle of the rack.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/4162975564015788274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=4162975564015788274&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4162975564015788274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4162975564015788274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/wooster-st-east-side-between-spring-st.html' title='Wooster St. (East Side, between Spring St. and Prince St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-327839189346076193</id><published>2009-02-10T05:47:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-10T13:24:55.980-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="billboards"/><title type='text'>Billboard</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Billboard%202-7-09/dogyears.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Billboard%202-7-09/dogyears.JPG" width="300" height="400" /></a><br /></div>An enormous billboard overlooking the intersection of Watts St. and Thompson St. Basically, Watts St. serves as the feeder street to the Holland Tunnel, and it's congested with heavy traffic at rush hour, which means commuters spend long minutes staring at this billboard.<br /><br />While I'm wholeheartedly in agreement with the sign's sentiments, and that rottweiler is pretty cute, the choppy urban splatter graphics are so very tired.<br /><br />And can we put an end to the random use of "It's all good!" Please?<br /><br />Does it say "sux" on the dog's collar? At first glance, I thought he was wearing a bow tie.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/327839189346076193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=327839189346076193&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/327839189346076193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/327839189346076193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/billboard.html' title='Billboard'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-5986854792311723083</id><published>2009-02-10T03:54:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T14:14:11.227-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="7 for all Mankind"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bogner"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="LensCrafters"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Links"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Miss Sixty"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Robert Lee Morris"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="street vendors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tommy Hilfiger"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="té casan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="West Broadway"/><title type='text'>West Broadway (West Side, between Spring St. and Broome St.)</title><content type='html'>These pictures were taken on Saturday, February 7th, on a warm, sunny, busy afternoon, on the west side of West Broadway, between Spring St. and Broome St.<br /><br />For those of you out there who aren't intimately familiar with the intricacies of SoHo, West Broadway is a two-way, north-south street that starts at West Houston St. (it's Laguardia Pl. from Washington Square South down to West Houston St.), and continues south until it hits the hole that used to be the World Trade Center. West Broadway should not be confused with Broadway, which is four blocks east, and which swerves its way down almost the whole length of Manhattan island. Regular Broadway is a wildly popular shopping area in SoHo, but it's often painfully crowded, and the street itself is a major thoroughfare. West Broadway has a tonier caché, with more of a quaint walking-district feel.<br /><br />I'm feeling more than a little bitchy tonight -- an incipient headache -- so heads up.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/Linksnorth.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/Linksnorth.JPG" width="248" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This is the northern window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.linksoflondon.com/">Links of London</a> (402 W. Broadway). That giant fuchsia neon diamond is certainly attention-grabbing, but it rather dwarfs the jewelry on display. I think the neon is oddly unsubtle for such unfussy, understated ornaments.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/Linksmiddle.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/Linksmiddle.JPG" width="400" height="273" /></a><br /></div>The central window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.linksoflondon.com/">Links of London</a>. The necklaces are fine, if chilly, but what's up with that pink dog collar thing? And don't the obsidian, oblong display things look like they're poorly made out of origami paper? Unimpressive.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/Linkssouth.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/Linkssouth.JPG" width="284" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The southern window of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.linksoflondon.com/">Links of London</a>. Again, that giant neon diamond draws you in, but seems overtly gaudy for the elegant simplicity of the central necklace.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/RobertLeeMorrisnorth.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/RobertLeeMorrisnorth.JPG" width="253" height="400" /></a><br /></div>At 400 West Broadway is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.robertleemorris.com/">Robert Lee Morris</a>, with a display in their northern window of inexplicably cheesy paper valentines dangling above exotic beadwork necklaces and bracelets. Dissonant, and reductive. And wow, is that manniquin-statue awkwardly-shaped!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/RobertLeeMorrissouth.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/RobertLeeMorrissouth.JPG" width="228" height="400" /></a><br /></div>At least the display in the southern window at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.robertleemorris.com/">Robert Lee Morris</a> has some color in the jewelry that connects to the cut-out hearts. But still those hanging strands of valentines suggest a paper-goods store . . . not fine, expensive jewelry.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/streetprints.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/streetprints.JPG" width="400" height="273" /></a><br /></div>A street vendor on West Broadway selling photographs. <u>SALE</u> 1/2 PRICE! Cheap!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/7Mankindnorth.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/7Mankindnorth.JPG" width="334" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The northern side of the storefront of <a href="http://www.7forallmankind.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7 for all Mankind</span></a>, at 394 West Broadway. Cute basics, with irritating frills. I know that mustard color is supposed to be hot right now, but I'm already sick of it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/7Mankindsouth.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/7Mankindsouth.JPG" width="328" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Look, I'm wearing a fuchsia blouse! With a sickly knitted sweater! Aren't I <span style="font-style: italic;">adorable</span>? And feminine? <span style="font-style: italic;">La de da, la de da. </span> Plus I <span style="font-style: italic;">love </span>to drape vibrant scarves on my bag! The southern window at <a href="http://www.7forallmankind.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7 for all Mankind</span></a>, too cutesy for its own good.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/LensCrafters.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/LensCrafters.JPG" width="294" height="400" /></a><br /></div>An upscale <a href="http://www.lenscrafters.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LensCrafters</span></a> at 390 West Broadway, billing itself as a LensCrafters <span style="font-style: italic;">Optique</span>. With the giant head of Patrick Dempsey selling Versace frames.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyN1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyN1.JPG" width="254" height="400" /></a><br /></div>These are some cool-girl mannequins in the northern window of <a href="http://www.misssixty.com/index.asp?tskay=19440A6A"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Sixty</span></a> (386 West Broadway). Very New York-styled, with a soupçon of Parisienne.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyN2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyN2.JPG" width="316" height="400" /></a><br /></div>That mannequin at the second of <a href="http://www.misssixty.com/index.asp?tskay=19440A6A"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Sixty</span></a>'s four windows has attitude! And bitchin' shoes. She looks like she's waiting to tear her boyfriend to shreds after he took <span style="font-style: italic;">hours </span>price-checking baseball mitts in a sporting-goods store. She's got a knife in that hot little purse. <span style="font-style: italic;">She'll cut you</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyS1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyS1.JPG" width="237" height="400" /></a><br /></div>These cool-girl mannequins in the third window at <a href="http://www.misssixty.com/index.asp?tskay=19440A6A"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Sixty</span></a> look like they've tipped over into <span style="font-style: italic;">mean</span>-girl mannequins. Whatever you did to piss off the blond, apologize <span style="font-style: italic;">now</span>. And the lady in the red jacket doesn't care if you live or die, although maybe your dying would amuse her, briefly. She's pulling off those yellow shoes, though, damn.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyS2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/MissSixtyS2.JPG" width="257" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This mannequin in her paisley smock in the southernmost window of <a href="http://www.misssixty.com/index.asp?tskay=19440A6A"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Sixty</span></a> has got somewhere to be, so you best get out of her way. Her shoes and dress play well together, but I'm not feeling that bag or that hat. Does that hat have a <span style="font-style: italic;">visor</span>?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/tecasanN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/tecasanN.JPG" width="301" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This is the first of three massive posters on the construction façade of what will become <a href="http://www.tecasan.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">té casan</span></a> at 382 West Broadway. I kind of dig the streetwise aesthetic of this poster, but it also looks like an ad for a horror movie in which the victims are crunchy neo-hippies.<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/tecasanM.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/tecasanM.JPG" width="400" height="322" /></a><br /></div>The giant central poster for <a href="http://www.tecasan.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">té casan</span></a>, over where the doors will eventually be. I guess wanna-be grunge musicians and their groupies were an underserved market. That dude needs to have that hat smacked off his girly head.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/tecasanS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/tecasanS.JPG" width="321" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The southern poster of <a href="http://www.tecasan.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">té casan</span></a> has a more successful streetwise vibe. I instantly appreciate a girl who can wear a hat like that, and the guy looks comfortable without appearing like a poseur.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/BognerN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/BognerN.JPG" width="310" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Wow, the northern window at German skiware sellers <a href="http://www.bogner.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bogner</span></a> (380 West Broadway) just strikes me as depressing. The chick in the dead-muskrat hat looks so despondent, like she's fallen into a pit of existential angst. Cheer up, girl -- you're on a fabulous ski trip! But of course we know who's to blame for her misery. Her boyfriend there, with his cell-phone pocket on his jeans' calf, turned-away face, and dark sunglasses, has got <span style="font-style: italic;">douchebag </span>written all over him.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/BognerS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/BognerS.JPG" width="269" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The southern window of <a href="http://www.bogner.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bogner</span></a>. Ugh, these two seem so insufferable, and perhaps oddly kinky in some unsanitary way.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/HilfigerN.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/HilfigerN.JPG" width="400" height="373" /></a><br /></div>At the corner of West Broadway and Broome St. (372 West Broadway) is the massive, multistory temple to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://usa.tommy.com/">Tommy Hilfiger</a>. I'm surprised this store is still here, which means someone must still be wearing these clothes. These are the windows on the northern side, showcasing two preppy a-hole mannequins. Wow, that green sweater even makes the <span style="font-style: italic;">mannequin </span>look paunchy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/HilfigerS.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/WBroadwayW%20spring%20broome%202-7-09/HilfigerS.JPG" width="400" height="262" /></a><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://usa.tommy.com/">Tommy Hilfiger</a> mildly improves on the southern side of their West Broadway windows. The trench is fine and basic, if a little too short, and I have friends who I can see wearing a rich purple sweater like the one on the right (although not with a green shirt, <span style="font-style: italic;">please</span> . . . or white jeans, which should always be reserved for street hustlers). The painted skirt in the middle is surprising fresh and fun.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/5986854792311723083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=5986854792311723083&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/5986854792311723083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/5986854792311723083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/west-broadway-west-side-between-spring.html' title='West Broadway (West Side, between Spring St. and Broome St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-3550968782828113587</id><published>2009-02-07T19:17:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-16T01:35:57.316-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cigarillos"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Flying A"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hair Box"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Metropolitan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="street vendors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="subways"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tasti D-lite"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Variazioni"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wine Shop"/><title type='text'>Spring St. (North Side, between 6th Ave. and West Broadway)</title><content type='html'>Rather than tackle the whole north side of Spring St. in one blitz, I decided to capture just a few blocks at a time. So here are three blocks of the north side of Spring St., between 6th Avenue and West Broadway.<br /><br />I overexposed many of today's photos, overcompensating for the darkening effect of the polarizing filter. I'll get it right one of these days! Although probably not anytime soon.<br /><br />It was a warm, gorgeous day out this afternoon . . . and really crowded. I can't decide whether or not I'm annoyed or pleased when people pause on the sidewalk, waiting for me to take my pictures. On one hand, it hurries me, and as it takes me a few seconds to set up each shot (and wait for the flash, if any), and I wait for a clear spot before shooting, I wasn't going to capture the people in the photo anyway. On the other hand . . . well, it's curmudgeonly to complain about people being considerate, isn't it?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/subway.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/subway.JPG" width="284" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The entrance to the Spring St. Subway station for uptown service on the C and E lines, at the corner of 6th Avenue. I like the tile mosaic on the landing back wall, which the city does a reasonably good job of keeping free of graffiti.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/tastidlite.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/tastidlite.JPG" width="400" height="373" /></a><br /></div>Our neighborhood <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tastidlite.com/" target="_blank">Tasti D-lite</a> at 203 Spring St., for all our ice cream and candy needs. Yeah, I've spent some time in here filling up little bags with candy from the plastic cases. Their low-fat ice cream tastes like weak chalk, but the regular variety is reasonably decent. That big plastic chocolate and vanilla cone verges on the obscene; chocolate ice cream should never be rendered in plastic.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/HairBox.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/HairBox.JPG" width="300" height="248" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Despite its terrible name, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hair Box</span>, an old-fashioned barbershop at 203 Spring St., is where I get my hair cut. I like the celebrity pictures in the window, which include headshots of James Gandolfini and other <span style="font-style: italic;">Sopranos</span>. The Styrofoam heads in the window with "hair" formed from clay pebbles are extremely mysterious and creepy.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/Variazioni.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/Variazioni.JPG" width="400" height="246" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At 195 Spring St. is <a href="http://www.variazioninyc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Variazioni</span></a>, which updates their clear-eyed windows frequently. This is a no-nonsense display of Valentine's Day party outfits.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/cigarillos.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/cigarillos.JPG" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cigarillos</span>, a friendly neighborhood tobacconist (and head shop) at 191 Spring St. I dig the smoking cricket (or possibly a frog) logo and the bare-breasted cigar-store Indian. It also smells wonderful in there, probably from the wide selection of pipe tobacco. No, I'm not doing very well this week with quitting smoking.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/liquorwide.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/liquorwide.JPG" width="400" height="200" /></a><br /></div>Ah, my good friends at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Spring Street Wine Shop</span>, what would I do without you? 187 Spring St., conveniently located on the way home from the Subway.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/liquorwest.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/liquorwest.JPG" width="400" height="335" /></a><br /></div>This display has been up since New Year's Eve. Whatever -- Veuve Clicquot never goes out of style.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/liquoreast.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/liquoreast.JPG" width="339" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I love scotch. Go ahead, put Johnny Walker Blue Label up on a pedestal, it's all right by me.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/hardware.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/hardware.JPG" width="331" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This isn't a window so much as an industrial archway, leading to a miniature indoor lumberyard right here on one of SoHo's busiest shopping streets. (<a href="http://www.themetlumber.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metropolitan Lumber and Hardware</span></a>, 175 Spring St.) I love watching the tourists almost get run over by the little forklift the workers use to shuttle the lumber and bags of cement across the sidewalk.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/FlyingAwest.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/FlyingAwest.JPG" width="225" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This is the western window of <a href="http://www.flyinganyc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flying A</span></a> (169 Spring St.), which I always think of as the boys' window. Flying A is a little bit like Diesel-lite, but I like that bag and those sneaks. I'm not sure why the mannequin (the one with the head) looks so spaced-out. He'd better watch where he's going!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/FlyingAeast.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/FlyingAeast.JPG" width="400" height="348" /></a><br /></div>And this would be the eastern window of <a href="http://www.flyinganyc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Flying A</span></a>, the "girls' window". Basic women's daily wear, kinda cute, a little chilly-looking for the season. Although that bust in the lower right corner is working her hat!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/tshirts.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/tshirts.JPG" width="400" height="225" /></a><br /></div>It seems as though this woman selling Russian-themed t-shirts on the street is enjoying her soup.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/streetjewelry.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/SpringN%206th%20Wbroad%202-7-09/streetjewelry.JPG" width="400" height="356" /></a><br /></div>A street vendor selling accessories on the northwest corner of Spring St. and West Broadway.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/3550968782828113587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=3550968782828113587&isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/3550968782828113587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/3550968782828113587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-st-north-side-between-6th-ave.html' title='Spring St. (North Side, between 6th Ave. and West Broadway)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-8134685716602443994</id><published>2009-02-07T19:13:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T14:10:43.258-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="snapshots"/><title type='text'>SoHo Snapshot</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Random%202-7-09/mixer.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Random%202-7-09/mixer.JPG" width="400" height="314" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Just a random picture of a colorfully patriotic cement mixer at the corner of Thompson St. and Broome St. I want to live in that tall, brick, single-family corner house, btw. -- they have a <span style="font-style: italic;">private yard</span>.<br /></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/8134685716602443994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=8134685716602443994&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/8134685716602443994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/8134685716602443994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/soho-snapshot.html' title='SoHo Snapshot'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-4658685698127077102</id><published>2009-02-06T15:44:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T14:09:53.949-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Arcadia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Broome St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Greene St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jonathan Adler"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Luceplan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sicis"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sol de Ibiza"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Waterworks"/><title type='text'>Greene St. (between Broome St. and Grand St.)</title><content type='html'>It was bitterly cold out today, but I wanted to try out my new polarization filter, to see if that helped block out some of the reflections in the glass storefront windows. And . . . not so much. Some of the pictures came out a little better, but some were darker and muddier. I'm going to have to practice more.<br /><br />Anyway, it was so chilly out (15ºF!) that my hands were shivering and getting chapped, so I only snapped a few storefronts on Greene St., between Grand St. and Broome St., and then one storefront on Broome St. itself that I couldn't resist.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Arcadia.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Arcadia.JPG" border="0" width="294" height="400" /></a><br /></div>This is the southern window of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.arcadiafinearts.com/home.html" target="_blank">Arcadia Fine Arts Gallery</a> at 51 Green St., showing a wickedly cool robot painting by <a href="http://www.stevenskollar.com/" target="_blank">Steven Skollar</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Plusse.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Plusse.JPG" border="0" width="286" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Here are some glitzy and yet simple and elegant Plissé light fixtures at the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.luceplan.com/" target="_blank">Luceplan Store</a> at 49 Greene St. "Plissé" apparently means "pleating," and the style is designed by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ingasempe.fr/" target="_blank">Inga Sempé</a>. The window is created well to showcase these fixtures, with the blue circles suggesting dazzling lightspots.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Jonathan%20Adler.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Jonathan%20Adler.JPG" border="0" width="288" height="400" /></a><br /></div>At 47 Greene St. is the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop/index.php" target="_blank">Jonathan Adler</a> store. It's a homey and kitchy window, and of course I'm a fan from seeing him on <a href="http://www.topdesignwiki.com/page/Jonathan+Adler" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Top Design</span></a> and <a href="http://www.theparkerpalmsprings.com/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Welcome to the Parker</span></a> (and from . . . my favorite <a href="http://jonathanadler.com/shop/product.php?productid=16633&amp;cat=339&amp;page=1" target="_blank">duvet</a>). The head with the multiple faces reminds me of the animated sequence in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch_%28film%29" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hedwig and the Angry Inch</span></a> for "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YO9FpWX57E" target="_blank">Origin of Love</a>." And you know I'm a sucker for a sweet ceramic squirrel wearing a pink bow.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Waterworks.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Waterworks.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I always enjoy peering into the windows at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.waterworks.com/" target="_blank">Waterworks</a> (469 Broome St.). This Greene St.-side shot shows off some of their colorful bathroom tile options. I rent, so I can only dream of redoing my bathroom in a style of my own choice.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Sol%20de%20Ibiza.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Sol%20de%20Ibiza.JPG" border="0" width="290" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I don't think I've ever noticed <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.soldeibiza.com/" target="_blank">Sol de Ibiza</a> at 52 Greene St. before, but today I was intrigued by the blue harem pants. That manniquin looks cold! And what's wrong with the wee manniquin? Her pose suggests she may have a yeast infection.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Sicis.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Greene%20Broome%20Grand%202-6-09/Sicis.JPG" border="0" width="359" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The storefront windows at <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.sicis.com/" target="_blank">Sicis</a> </span>(470 Broome St.) are amongst the funkiest in the city. They specialize in mosaic tile designs, which is so very specific. Usually the windows showcase manniquins covered in mirrored mosaic, but recently they switched to these giant flowers and gold chains, which are equally beguiling.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/4658685698127077102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=4658685698127077102&isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4658685698127077102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/4658685698127077102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/greene-st-between-broome-st-and-grand.html' title='Greene St. (between Broome St. and Grand St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-3734967024457793506</id><published>2009-02-05T14:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T14:07:12.078-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ben Sherman"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Burton"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Evolution"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jenny B."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="John Varvatos"/><title type='text'>Spring St. (South Side, between Greene St. and Broadway)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09John%20Varvatos.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/John%20Varvatos.JPG" width="283" height="306" /></a><br /></div>The <a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> store at 122 Spring St. is impressively intimidating, even though I find the fashions a big laughable in their goofy, brooding intensity. The sneering, urbane, tough-guy look is an uncomfortable mash-up. This is actually a view through the open door, since this space doesn't feel like it was originally created to be a retail location.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos2.JPG" width="400" height="157" /></a><br /></div>Here's the long Spring St. side of the <a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> shop, with all its narrow display windows.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window1.JPG" width="400" height="383" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> display window #1.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window2.JPG" width="400" height="399" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> display window #2.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window3.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window3.JPG" width="400" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> display window #3.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window4.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window4.JPG" width="390" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> display window #4. Come on, isn't there something silly about painted tires, scarves, sunglasses, and a man-bag all mixed together?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window5.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/varvatos%20window5.JPG" width="398" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.johnvarvatos.com/" target="_blank"><b>John Varvatos</b></a> display window #5. I know I always keep my moisturizer perched on an old tire.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/evolution.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/evolution.JPG" width="337" height="400" /></a><br /></div>A unique SoHo gem, <a href="http://theevolutionstore.com/" target="_blank"><b>Evolution</b></a> at 120 Spring St. has one of the most fascinating and intriguing storefronts in the whole city. I've gone in there occasionally to buy really surprising birthday presents, like a fetal shark in a jar for my brother, and a fox skull for my ex-boyfriend's father. I love staring in that window at the curios from the natural world.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Jenny%20B.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Jenny%20B.JPG" width="400" height="207" /></a><br /></div>At 118 Spring St. is the rather mysterious <b>Jenny B</b>. I couldn't even find a website for them. The display is simple and functional, keeping a clean emphasis on the straightforward shoes and boots themselves.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Burton%20Snowboards.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Burton%20Snowboards.JPG" width="400" height="228" /></a><br /></div>The flagship store of <a href="http://store.burton.com/index.jsp" target="_blank"><b>Burton</b></a> is at 106 Spring. The windows are busy and messy, but it does fit their rough-and-tumble Xtreme sports aesthetic. I guess you could even call these displays "shredded".<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Burton%20Fun.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Burton%20Fun.JPG" width="331" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Another shredded display from <a href="http://store.burton.com/index.jsp" target="_blank"><b>Burton</b></a>, this time with a pithy slogan.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Burton%20credo.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Burton%20credo.JPG" width="273" height="400" /></a><br /></div>And here's the <a href="http://store.burton.com/index.jsp" target="_blank"><b>Burton</b></a> credo on their door.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20wide1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20wide1.JPG" width="400" height="207" /></a><br /></div>A very cool, youthful, trendy storefront from <a href="http://www.bensherman.com/client/index.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Ben Sherman</b></a> at 96 Spring St., with just the right level of '80s retro styling.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20wide2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20wide2.JPG" width="400" height="235" /></a><br /></div>Two more of the <a href="http://www.bensherman.com/client/index.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Ben Sherman</b></a> window displays. It certainly feels like he's got his finger on the generational pulse with this storefront.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20wide3.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20wide3.JPG" width="400" height="247" /></a><br /></div>More cool <a href="http://www.bensherman.com/client/index.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Ben Sherman</b></a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20front.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ben%20Sherman%20front.JPG" width="400" height="269" /></a><br /></div>The doorway of the <a href="http://www.bensherman.com/client/index.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Ben Sherman</b></a> storefront. He had me up until that Member's Only-style jacket just inside the entrance.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/3734967024457793506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=3734967024457793506&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/3734967024457793506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/3734967024457793506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-st-south-side-between-greene-st.html' title='Spring St. (South Side, between Greene St. and Broadway)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-8599672923604936746</id><published>2009-02-05T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T14:06:46.100-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Body Shop"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Breil"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Clarins"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hogan"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ilori"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="J. Lindberg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Le Petit Cafe"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="littlemissmatched"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Longchamp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Molton Brown"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Morgenthal-Frederics"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Olive and Bettes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="street vendors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tretorn"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vosages"/><title type='text'>Spring St. (South Side, between West Broadway and Greene St.)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Morgenthal%20Fredericks.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Morgenthal%20Fredericks.JPG" width="400" height="282" /></a><br /></div>I've always dug the European feel of this <a href="http://www.morgenthalfrederics.com/" target="_blank"><b>Morgenthal-Frederics</b></a> opticians on the southeast corner of West Broadway and Spring. There's something really old-school about the colors and display cases. . . like an apothecary shop. And who doesn't love that big dog welcoming you in?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20dog.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20dog.JPG" width="341" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Aw, that dog bowl is adorable.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20window1.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20window1.JPG" width="400" height="392" /></a><br /></div>In the Spring St.-side windows of <a href="http://www.morgenthalfrederics.com/" target="_blank"><b>Morgenthal-Frederics</b></a> there are three freestanding display cases, which on closer inspection, proved impressive. Here's the first of the three . . . winter sunglasses in a diorama!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20window2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20window2.JPG" width="395" height="400" /></a><br /></div>The second of the winter sunglasses displays at <a href="http://www.morgenthalfrederics.com/" target="_blank"><b>Morgenthal-Frederics</b></a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20window3.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/MF%20window3.JPG" width="400" height="396" /></a><br /></div>And the third <a href="http://www.morgenthalfrederics.com/" target="_blank"><b>Morgenthal-Frederics</b></a> display box, with a nice touch of orange. Someone spent time putting these together!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/street%20vendor.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/street%20vendor.JPG" width="400" height="259" /></a><br /></div>I'm not really sure what, exactly, this street vendor at the corner of West Broadway and Spring St. is selling, but it's a mighty colorful jumble. Are they hats? Or all kinds of winter accessories? Whatever -- she was nice enough to let me take her picture.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/littlemissmatched.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/littlemissmatched.JPG" width="400" height="275" /></a><br /></div>Okay, it's a kids' socks store. Plus they sell KnitWits, which appear to be long-eared sock monkey things. <a href="http://www.littlemissmatched.com/" target="_blank"><b>LittleMissMatched</b></a> at 160 Spring St. seems to be doing well enough, as it's one of the few stores around that isn't trumpeting a huge sale on their storefront. But really? Mismatched socks and sock monkeys?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/oliveandbettes.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/oliveandbettes.JPG" width="400" height="280" /></a><br /></div>A very pink <a href="http://www.oliveandbettes.com/index.php" target="_blank"><b>Olive &amp; Bettes</b></a> at 158 Spring St.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Le%20Petit%20Cafe.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Le%20Petit%20Cafe.JPG" width="363" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I like those drawings in Le Petit Cafe's windows at 156 Spring St. . . . working the European charm.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/body%20shop.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/body%20shop.JPG" width="280" height="400" /></a><br /></div>It's a <a href="http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/" target="_blank"><b>Body Shop</b></a>. 154 Spring St. Aren't they all the same? It makes SoHo seem even more like a giant outdoor mall.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Tretorn.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Tretorn.JPG" width="400" height="386" /></a><br /></div>Nice and simple and Swedish, and I like those sweaters. <a href="http://www.tretorn.com/" target="_blank"><b>Tretorn</b></a>, at 150 Spring St.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Breil.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Breil.JPG" width="400" height="349" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.breilmilano.com/#/us/" target="_blank"><b>Breil Milano</b></a> at 148 Spring St. It's a very cool modern display of their jewelry, watches, and bags, unfortunately obscured by the reflections in this picture.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09Clarins.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Clarins.JPG" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /></div>The door in this <a href="http://us.clarins.com/" target="_blank"><b>Clarins</b></a> storefront at 146 Spring St. is quite sexy.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Flea.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Flea.JPG" width="400" height="250" /></a><br /></div>In other seasons besides chilly winter, this flea market at the corner of Wooster St. and Spring St. teems with colorful street vendor wares, but it's looking kind of sparse right now. I wonder how many of the vendors here took the opportunity to move west to that indoor SoHo Flea Market for the winter?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Flea2.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Flea2.JPG" width="400" height="209" /></a><br /></div>Another angle on the flea market at Spring and Wooster.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ilori.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ilori.JPG" width="400" height="215" /></a><br /></div>At 138 Spring St. is <a href="http://www.iloristyle.com/" target="_blank"><b>Ilori</b></a>. Those scrims are quite arresting, although the reflections in this picture have rendered them sort of abstract, and have obscured the display of sunglasses.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Hogan.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Hogan.JPG" width="400" height="244" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.hoganworld.com/AI09/index.html" target="_blank"><b>Hogan</b></a> is located at 134 Spring St. Those squiggly-shaped multilevel display racks really boost the visual interest in these windows.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Longchamp.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Longchamp.JPG" width="400" height="301" /></a><br /></div>One of the coolest window displays in all of SoHo is in the storefront of <a href="http://www.longchamp.com/en/home-249.html" target="_blank"><b>Longchamp</b></a> at 132 Spring St. That undulating orange, wooden display floor holding up those shockingly red bags is just gorgeous.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Vosges.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Vosges.JPG" width="400" height="243" /></a><br /></div>Yummy! I've gotten hot chocolate at <a href="http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/" target="_blank"><b>Vosges Haut-Chocolat</b></a> (132 Spring St.) several times, and I just love how they drop a truffle into your hot chocolate for a wonderful surprise when you hit the bottom of the cup. The display is nicely Gothic and sexy, and the signature purple boxes add a nice twist to the typical Valentine's Day gift.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Molton%20Brown.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Molton%20Brown.JPG" width="400" height="272" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.moltonbrown.com/" target="_blank"><b>Molton Brown</b></a> at 128 Spring St. has a sturdy, upper-crust London apothecary shop feel. I'm not sure what the leather chair and the blanket is supposed to signify, though . . . a homey, masculine inner sanctum?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/JLindeberg.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/JLindeberg.JPG" width="400" height="249" /></a><br /></div>I like the variety of sleek menswear that <a href="http://www.jlindeberg.com/" target="_blank"><b>J. Lindeberg</b></a> always has displayed at 126 Spring St., but I'm not sure I'm Euro-riche enough to wear them. This window is showing a more sober, businessy side than the tightly-fitted Nordic sportswear they often showcase.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/8599672923604936746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=8599672923604936746&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/8599672923604936746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/8599672923604936746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-st-south-side-between-west.html' title='Spring St. (South Side, between West Broadway and Greene St.)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-5124871742039312502</id><published>2009-02-05T07:05:00.020-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T13:59:10.211-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="AGI Brooks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Big Drop"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chelsea Girl"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Iradj"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Le Bo"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="LeSportsac"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Origins"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ottiva"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Psychic Elaine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Psychic Fatima"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Union"/><title type='text'>Spring St. (South Side, between 6th Ave. and West Broadway)</title><content type='html'>On Monday, February 2, I thought I'd tackle one of the main streets in SoHo -- Spring St. There are so many stores along Spring that I decided to start with the shop windows along the south side of the street only at first. Still, it was a big undertaking.<br /><br />I also discovered a big limitation with my point-and-shoot digital camera -- no matter at what angle I photograph the windows, I get a lot of glare off the glass . . . and very detailed reflections muddying the displays. I've learned that I need a polarizing filter to help lessen the effect of the reflections, and so I've ordered a cheap one to try it out. But for now, we're all just going to have to deal with the apparitions hovering over the merchandise on display. Sorry about that.<br /><br />On to the tour of the south side of Spring St. Clicking any picture will open the full-size image in a new window.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/psychic.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/psychic.JPG" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /></div>We'll start with the cute <b>Psychic: <i>Readings by Fatima</i></b> store on Spring St., by 6th Ave. I dig that bench, and the way the ATM almost color-coordinates with the storefront colors. Maybe I should pop in and consult with Fatima sometime about my future.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Iradj.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Iradj.JPG" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /></div>At 198 Spring St. is <b>Iradj</b>, the home of the jewelry designer Iradj Moini, a former couture designer for Oscar de la Renta. Who doesn't love a turquoise or amethyst chunky necklace?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ottiva.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Ottiva.JPG" width="258" height="400" /></a><br /></div><b>Ottiva</b>, at 192 Spring St. Boots! Shoes! All very classic. Notice the first of the SALE signs . . . even SoHo is being hit hard by this recession.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/AGI%20Brooks.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/AGI%20Brooks.JPG" width="400" height="389" /></a><br /></div>Also in 192 Spring St. is <b><a href="http://www.agibrooks.com/" target="_blank">AGI Brooks</a></b>. The clothes in here remind me of every female executive I've ever worked for in my life. Another big sale going on.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Chelsea%20Girl%20Coture.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Chelsea%20Girl%20Coture.JPG" width="239" height="400" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.chelsea-girl.com/chelsea.html" target="_blank"><b>Chelsea Girl Couture</b></a> at 186 Spring St. always can be counted on for funky windows showcasing the top vintage trends. That Japanese purse in the lower left corner is to-die-for. Again, sale sale sale.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Chelsea%20Girl%20Coture%20closeup.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Chelsea%20Girl%20Coture%20closeup.JPG" width="400" height="256" /></a><br /></div>Close up of the <a href="http://www.chelsea-girl.com/chelsea.html" target="_blank"><b>Chelsea Girl Couture</b></a> window, showing a few more stunning vintage bags. If I had any extra cash (which I don't), I'd totally buy that mosaic bull purse for some Taurus chick.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/SoHo%20Flea%20Market.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/SoHo%20Flea%20Market.JPG" width="400" height="302" /></a><br /></div>Until a few months ago, this store on the corner of Spring St. and Thompson St. was a dentist's office, but recently the dentist moved, and the storefront was gutted. No new retail tenant rented quickly, so now it's occupied temporarily by the SoHo Flea Market, which is like a bargain basement, filled with street vendors who were smart enough to come in from the cold. Note the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Psychic Readings by <span style="font-style: italic;">Elaine</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>sign -- that makes two psychics on this block! I have a feeling Elaine has set up a little booth in the back, shielded from the tourist customers by a rack of coats.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Elaine.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Elaine.JPG" width="300" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Psychic Elaine was on the sidewalk, passing out her cards, and she was nice enough to pose for a picture by her sign in the vestibule.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/LeSportsac.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/LeSportsac.JPG" width="400" height="227" /></a><br /></div>Ah, <a href="http://www.lesportsac.com/" target="_blank"><b>LeSportsac</b></a>. Moved away from 176 Spring St., alas. I mocked this store for years, using it as my example of the general uselessness of SoHo as a livable neighborhood. <i>Where am I supposed to get my groceries?</i> I'd say. <i>LeSportsac?</i> Now I guess I'll have to find another store to scapegoat. I won't miss the displays of their ugly '80s bags, though. Some of them were dag nasty.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/bigdrop.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/bigdrop.JPG" width="366" height="400" /></a><br /></div>Another slashing sale at <a href="http://www.bigdropnyc.com/" target="_blank"><b>Big Drop</b></a>. Occasionally, this window has clever slogans across the front, which makes up somewhat for the generic nature of some of the clothing.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Union.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/Union.JPG" width="245" height="400" /></a><br /></div>I'm not sure how <a href="http://unionyc.com/" target="_blank"><b>Union</b></a> at 172 Spring St. survives selling hip-hop caps, hoodies, and t-shirts in SoHo, but they've been here since 1989, so they must be doing something right. I suppose it's good to corner a niche in the neighborhood.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/le%20bo.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/le%20bo.JPG" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /></div>And here's <b>Le Bo</b> at 172 Spring St., having a blowout sale on their bags. They used to have funkier leatherwear in their windows, with very sexy mannequins in suede pants . . . but it looks like they're closing up shop.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/origins.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Spring%20South%202-2-09/origins.JPG" width="400" height="263" /></a><br /></div>At the corner of West Broadway and Spring St., a big <a href="http://www.origins.com/" target="_blank"><b>Origins</b></a> looms. The window displays are actually quite colorful and modern, but unfortunately the glare really ruined this picture.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/5124871742039312502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=5124871742039312502&isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/5124871742039312502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/5124871742039312502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-st-south-side.html' title='Spring St. (South Side, between 6th Ave. and West Broadway)'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291791011186502603.post-1533505035201532995</id><published>2009-02-01T14:39:00.016-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T03:19:23.310-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="David Lee Holland"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Flowers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Frames"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Global Table"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Il Bisonte"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Joe's Dairy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ling"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Local"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Modern Tibet"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Once Upon a Tart"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Petal Belle"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Pino"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Purl"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="St. Anthony"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="STUart"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sullivan St."/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tibet Emporium"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vajra"/><title type='text'>Sullivan St.</title><content type='html'>I figured I'd begin with the second shortest north-south street in SoHo -- Sullivan St. One one block east of 6th Avenue, Sullivan St. is a little off the beaten path, and less fashionable than the really trendy ones further east. This street has off-brand, unique stores (including <span style="font-style: italic;">three </span>Tibetan-themed boutiques!), a few cool jewelry stores, cute cafes, and some of the final remnants of when SoHo had been a working-class Italian neighborhood.<br /><br />These pictures were taken January 29 and January 30.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Frames%20blur.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Frames%20blur.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Starting heading north from Broome St., where Sullivan St. separates from 6th, one of the first stores is this cute frame shop, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sullivan Street Frames</span>, with its minimalist window. The store is only open intermittently, and I have a feeling it's kind of a leftover from when SoHo had many more art galleries than it does now, before most of them were replaced with high-end clothing boutiques.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/David%20Lee%20Holland%20haze.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/David%20Lee%20Holland%20haze.jpg" width="300" height="400" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">A little too Modernist-looking to fit completely comfortably in with the old-world charm of its neighbors, jeweler <a href="http://www.davidleeholland.com/index.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Lee Holland</span></a>'s storefront at 69 Sullivan St. gives off a severely upscale vibe. I'm not thrilled that my ghost appears in the door reflection, but the guy at the desk inside (perhaps David Lee Holland himself) was resting his head on his hand, and giving me a strange look, so I felt rushed into taking the shot.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Flowers%20&amp;%20Such%20blur.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Flowers%20&amp;%20Such%20blur.jpg" width="364" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Now this is a mysterious storefront! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Flowers &amp; Such</span>, at 79 Sullivan St., is almost never open, and on the few occasions that I've seen the lights on, someone is cleaning out dusty junk from inside and sweeping dry leaves and petals onto the sidewalk. It's a tiny little hallway of a store, filled with strange woodland objects . . . almost more of a prop supply store than the event planners the sign indicates.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/STUart%20wide.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/STUart%20wide.jpg" width="400" height="279" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stuartjewelrydesigns.com/" target="_blank">STUart</a> is another jewelry store, at 103 Sullivan St. Stuart himself popped out while I was taking these pictures . . . and asked if my name was also Stuart, which it isn't. I guess he gets a lot of people taking pictures of the store because their names are Stuart.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/STUart%20close%20flash.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/STUart%20close%20flash.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Closer shot of <span style="font-weight: bold;">STUart</span>'s jewelry. Next time I'll get even closer . . . but I felt weird with Stuart standing right there, even though he took out that display so I could see it better.<br /></div></div><br /></div> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Modern%20Tibet%20tall%20haze.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Modern%20Tibet%20tall%20haze.jpg" width="300" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The storefront of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.moderntibet.com/" target="_blank">Modern Tibet</a>, at 103 Sullivan St., is astoundingly busy and colorful. Now this is a display to get lost in. I particularly enjoy the various multicolored Buddhas on the bottom.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/modern%20tibet%20close%20fuzz.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/modern%20tibet%20close%20fuzz.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Closer on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Modern Tibet</span>'s jewelry and statuary. The display feels like a cross between a museum exhibit, a bazaar, a pawnshop, and a street vendor.<br /></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Global%20Table%20wide%20flash.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Global%20Table%20wide%20flash.jpg" width="400" height="269" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At 107-109 Sullivan St. is <a href="http://www.globaltable.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Global Table</span></a>, the only home accessories store on this street. They update their display relatively often, and I'm always impressed with the chunky, streamlined vases and dishes and other pottery in the window.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Global%20Table%20close%20flash.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Global%20Table%20close%20flash.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">A close up of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Global Table</span>'s south window. It's such a specific aesthetic.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Global%20Table%20tall%20side%20flash.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Global%20Table%20tall%20side%20flash.jpg" width="365" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Here's the view of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Global Table</span>'s smaller north window. Those red bowls and that red vase are such a needed splash of vibrant color. And I love that wooden . . . decanter? . . . with the image of the bespectacled Asian dude peeking out of the corner.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Tart%20close%20blur.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Tart%20close%20blur.jpg" width="300" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Of course, by now, we're feeling a little snacky and here's <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.onceuponatart.com/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Tart</a> at 135 Sullivan St.! Actually, I've seen more impressive St. Valentine's Day displays from them . . . this one's a bit plain with just the heart mobile. They often have very inventive windows. And the tarts always look delicious.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Il%20Bisonte%20wide%20dark%20fuzz.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Il%20Bisonte%20wide%20dark%20fuzz.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />I can honestly say that this trip out taking photos was the first time I noticed <a href="http://www.ilbisonte.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Il Bisonte</span></a> at 120 Sullivan St. The storefront isn't exactly attention-grabbing, although the bags are nice. A basic, functional display. I'll bet it smells good and leathery in there.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Il%20Bisonte%20close%20haze.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Il%20Bisonte%20close%20haze.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Closer on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Il Bisonte</span>.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl.jpg" width="400" height="309" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Okay, now this storefront is one of my favorites in SoHo. <a href="http://www.purlsoho.com/purl" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Purl</span></a>, at 137 Sullivan St., is such an incredibly colorful yarn and notions store and of course those colors spill over into the storefront. Just eye candy all over.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl%20close%20pink.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl%20close%20pink.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Purl</span>'s north window, emphasizing a pink theme. Homey, pretty, and artfully casual.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl%20Patchwork%20dim.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl%20Patchwork%20dim.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Just up the block at 147 Sullivan St., is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.purlsoho.com/purl" target="_blank">Purl Patchwork</a>, which focuses on fabric. This shop is just as bright and colorful as its sister store, and although all the colors come through the window, the display itself could be more inventive than just piles of swatches.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl%20Patchwork%20smile.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Purl%20Patchwork%20smile.jpg" width="378" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">From this angle, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Purl Patchwork</span>'s accessories on the wall and the jars of . . . pom-poms? . . . are more visually interesting.<br /></div><br /></div> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Ling%20wide.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Ling%20wide.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://lingskincare.com/catalog/spa.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ling</span></a>, a spa and store at 191 Prince St. I think this is the only storefront spa on Sullivan St. The display has an appropriately Zen minimalist vibe, and the red flag saves it from being totally boring.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/InStyle%20bleak.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/InStyle%20bleak.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Just a shot down Sullivan St. toward Prince St., showing the new-fallen snow. The afternoon's "wintery mix" was starting up again, which is my least favorite kind of precipitation. SoHo in deep Winter can get kind of bleak.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Vajra%20left%20tall%20flash.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Vajra%20left%20tall%20flash.jpg" width="240" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vajra Collection</span>, at 146 Sullivan, has two pleasingly busy windows filled with exotic goods. I get an attic attitude from these storefronts. The southern window is above.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Vajra%20right%20tall.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Vajra%20right%20tall.jpg" width="355" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vajra Collection</span>'s north window display. I dig the chest of drawers particularly.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/local%20tall.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/local%20tall.jpg" width="400" height="373" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At 144 Sullivan St. is <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/local-new-york" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Local</span></a>, a little cafe. I love that yellow bench, and the simplicity of the awning.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Pino%27s%20tall.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Pino%27s%20tall.jpg" width="290" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Now we're getting into the holdout stores from the old Italian neighborhood SoHo used to be. At 149 Sullivan St. is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pino Prime Meats</span>. I love the black-and-white photos in the window, and the whole store's air of old-fashioned authenticity.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Joe%27s%20Dairy%20wide.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Joe%27s%20Dairy%20wide.jpg" width="400" height="343" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The same authenticity is evident at the cheese shop across the street at 156 Sullivan St., <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe's Dairy</span>. Maybe this is a bit too authentic . . . they couldn't move those cardboard boxes elsewhere, and open the metal grating? The windows were badly steamed-up, too, which doesn't exactly make a cheese shop seem inviting to enter. But I bet there's phenomenal cheese in there.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Tibet%20Emporium%20tall.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Tibet%20Emporium%20tall.jpg" width="277" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Also at 156 Sullivan St. is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tibet Emporium</span>. I'd have to rate this the best storefront window of the three Tibetian shops on Sullivan St., with that backlit, spectral dress hovering in the display. The window is full but not fussy, and cleanly laid-out. The products also seem more unusual, less cliched, than the other stores' wares.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Petal%20Belle%20fuzzy.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Petal%20Belle%20fuzzy.jpg" width="348" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">A new addition to the block, <a href="http://www.petalbells.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Petal Belle</span></a> at 158 Sullivan St., recently replaced an old Italian fish shop. The storefront is decorated in decent, well-considered colors, retaining a warm, old-world vibe. (The store name links to the owner's blog . . . which is interesting, but has horrible loud music that starts automatically.)<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Petal%20Belle%20St%20Anthony.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/Petal%20Belle%20St%20Anthony.jpg" width="373" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'm guessing that's a statue of St. Anthony in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Petal Belle</span>'s window, because of what's across the street.<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/St%20Anthony%20tall.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.flataffect.org/sohowindows/Sullivan%202-1-09/St%20Anthony%20tall.jpg" width="278" height="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://stanthonynyc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua</span></a>, at 154 Sullivan, which goes across the whole block of E. Houston to Thompson St. For an impressive storefront display, it's hard to beat life-size statuary, tower spires, marble arches, and a giant rose window!<br /></div></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/feeds/1533505035201532995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6291791011186502603&postID=1533505035201532995&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/1533505035201532995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6291791011186502603/posts/default/1533505035201532995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sohowindows.blogspot.com/2009/01/welcome.html' title='Sullivan St.'/><author><name>Citysqwirl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443113225088218510</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NWrbtuoZ3ME0a8OygfxzhDCIlhxveOeclQzWqlBhrM4TcAyc8DqCLXnbgZjy8Q_oYbol_iEMqg8OY8_JUZSbFe3sB0S_xqa6h7AdwY-ogvkQKgkTvnxOekfZXeCkCg/s113/el+jardin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>

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