Nolita
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NoLIta (= North of Little Italy ) - sometimes just spelled " Nolita " - is a small neighborhood in New York's Manhattan district .
location
NoLIta is bounded by Houston Street to the north, Bowery to the east, Kenmare Street to the south and Lafayette Street to the west . That puts it east of SoHo , south of NoHo , west of the Lower East Side and north of Little Italy and Chinatown .
Name story
For a long time this area was part of Little Italy. However, the area has lost some of its typical Italian character in the last few decades, as Italian-Americans moved away from Manhattan during this time. In the second half of the 1990s, this area saw an influx of yuppies and with it, expensive boutiques as well as trendy restaurants and bars shot up. As a result of this change, this in-district was initially simply slammed into SoHo by real estate agents, but this could not prevail. Finally, various ideas arose as to what the district could be called, with NoLIta prevailing.
Important architectural monuments
Within the area is St. Patrick's Old Cathedral (corner of Mott Street and Prince Street ). The foundation stone for this church was laid on June 8, 1809. It was opened in 1815 and rebuilt in 1868 after a fire. It served the Catholic Church as a cathedral until the new St. Patrick's Cathedral was opened in Midtown Manhattan on Fifth Avenue in 1879 . Today St. Patrick's Old Cathedral is a parish church.
Another monument in this neighborhood is the Puck Building , which with its ornate facade was built in 1885 on the corner of Houston Street and Lafayette Street. This is where the editorial office of the now no longer published Puck Magazine was originally located .
