Did you know there was a Saint of SoHo? The Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori on West Broadway near Canal was demolished in 1981. After a failed attempt to convert the lot into a park, the Soho Grand was built in 2006, the first hotel to open in SoHo in over a century. 

There are two brand spankin’ new books that feature SoHo, published within the last year, that merit attention in case they’ve been overlooked by my fellow SoHo memoriticians.