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Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London. Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street, it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques . Streets crossing, or meeting with, Carnaby Street are, from south to north, Beak Street, Broadwick Street ...
Designated NYCL. August 14, 1973. May 11, 2010 (extension) SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street ", [ 4] is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and has also been known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques ...
Brewer Street. Coordinates: 51°30′41.5″N 0°8′8″W. Madame Jojo's, Brewer Street. Soho's Book Shop on Brewer Street. Brewer Street is a street in the Soho area of central London, running for about 350 metres west to east from Glasshouse Street to Wardour Street . The street was developed in the late 17th century by the landowner Sir ...
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Soho, in the City of Westminster. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Soho viz. Oxford Street to the north, Charing Cross Road to the east, Shaftesbury Avenue to the south and Regent Street to the west. Air Street – believed to be a corruption of ...
Great Windmill Street. / 51.5112; -0.1343. Great Windmill Street is a thoroughfare running north–south in Soho, London, crossed by Shaftesbury Avenue . The street has had a long association with music and entertainment, most notably the Windmill Theatre, and is now home to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum and the Trocadero shopping centre.
Nostalgia for the ’90s is nothing new in fashion, nor in New York City, where the decade is often considered a yesteryear of pre-commercial gentrification. One quadrant of the Lower East Side is ...
Old Compton Street. Old Compton Street is a road that runs east–west through Soho in the West End of London, named after Henry Compton who raised funds for St Anne's Church in 1686. The area, particularly this street, became home to French Protestant refugees in 1681. Known for its diverse and artistic traditions, the street housed businesses ...
Frith Street was laid out in the late 1670s and early 1680s and evidently named after Richard Frith, a wealthy builder. [ 1] In the 18th and early 19th centuries many artistic and literary people came to live in Soho, and several of them settled in this street. The painter John Alexander Gresse was here in 1784, the year of his death.