Description
Nolita, short for "North of Little Italy", is a small Manhattan neighborhood between SoHo and the Bowery: a few blocks around Mulberry, Mott and Elizabeth Streets, full of boutiques, cafés and restaurants.
Its landmark is St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, opened in 1815 and the city's Catholic cathedral until the new St. Patrick's opened on Fifth Avenue in 1879. On the corner of Houston and Lafayette stands the Puck Building, an ornate nine-story building from 1885, once home to Puck magazine.
For a long time this was simply part of Little Italy. Rising rents changed it in the late 1990s, and real estate promoters coined the new name on the model of SoHo. Martin Scorsese grew up on Elizabeth Street, and the Feast of San Gennaro still fills Mulberry Street every September.
Its landmark is St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, opened in 1815 and the city's Catholic cathedral until the new St. Patrick's opened on Fifth Avenue in 1879. On the corner of Houston and Lafayette stands the Puck Building, an ornate nine-story building from 1885, once home to Puck magazine.
For a long time this was simply part of Little Italy. Rising rents changed it in the late 1990s, and real estate promoters coined the new name on the model of SoHo. Martin Scorsese grew up on Elizabeth Street, and the Feast of San Gennaro still fills Mulberry Street every September.