In his Streetscapes column this weekend (online now), the NYT's architecture historian Christopher Gray looks at the boutique hotel boom (Ace, NoMad, Flatiron) sprouting along Broadway in the upper 20s, aka the Wholesale District. We love his description of the place: "By day it's the Canal Street of Midtown, a blurry tumble of frantic shop fronts in an epic half-mile panorama, Perfume-Hairpieces-Jewelry-Sweatshirts-Sunglasses." The Canal Street of Midtown makes perfect sense. Maybe WhoDi should become CanSoM? [NYT; previously]
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