SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Between Houston and Canal Streets, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square runs from the Hudson River east to the Bowery.

  • 0.46 square miles
  • 23,287 residents, 2020 Census
  • 126 street corners
  • 8 subway stations
  • 17 bus routes

SoHo, named in 1962 for lying south of Houston Street, filled with cast-iron lofts for dry goods merchants in the mid-to-late 1800s; artists moved in during the 1960s, and its historic district dates from 1973. Little Italy grew with Italian immigration in the 1880s, and the Feast of San Gennaro, begun in 1926, is now an 11-day street fair on Mulberry Street. Hudson Square, once the Printing District, holds the Holland Tunnel entrance, opened in 1927, and row houses from the first half of the 1800s on Charlton, King and Vandam Streets.

Sources: SoHo, Manhattan (Wikipedia); SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District Extension Designation Report (LP-2362) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Little Italy, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Hudson Square (Wikipedia).

Map

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SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square borders five areas, and Broome Street and Spring Street hold more of its corners than any other street, 18 each of 126.

Street map of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan, outlined among Tribeca-Civic Center, Greenwich Village, the West Village and the Lower East Side, with its eight subway stations.Greenwich VillageLower East SideChinatown-Two BridgesTribeca-Civic CenterWest Village
  • SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Houston St lines 1
  • Spring St lines C E
  • Broadway-Lafayette St lines B D F M accessible
  • Prince St lines R W
  • Canal St lines 1
  • Spring St lines 6
  • Bowery lines J Z
  • Canal St lines 6 J N Q R W Z

Getting around

Eight subway stations and buses on 17 routes stop in or at the edge of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square.

  • 8 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 6 local bus routes
  • 11 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M1
  • M20
  • M21
  • M55
  • M103
  • T232

Express bus routes

  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4C
  • SIM7
  • SIM9
  • SIM33
  • SIM33C
  • SIM34
  • X27
  • X28

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,647 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 13.1 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 6 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 29 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
20
Accessible pedestrian signals
14
Turn calming
7
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
5
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 12,040 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 5,021 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most speed tickets
Avenue of the Americas & Canal Street, 3,373
Most bus-lane tickets
Broadway & Howard Street, 5,021

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 23,287 residents in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, about 50,600 per square mile.

  • 14,571 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,776 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,133 residential lots hold buildings from 1900 or earlier, and 91% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
2.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Vesuvio Playground (0.6 acre), Park (0.5 acre) and Duarte Square (0.4 acre)
Designated landmarks
The New York City Police Headquarters, the Odd Fellows Hall, the Fire Engine Company 55 and the Holland Plaza Building, among others
Historic districts
Charlton-King-Vandam, SoHo-Cast Iron and Sullivan-Thompson, wholly or partly within SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square

Streets and trees

Trees
1,530 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Japanese zelkova and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
Broome Street, with 18 of the area's 126
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Grand Street & West Broadway to 46 feet at East Houston Street & Elizabeth Street
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists five schools and one library in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square.

Public schools
3
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Mulberry Street Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 21 bike-share stations stand in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square. The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Juan Pablo Duarte (1978), Subway Map Floating on a New York Sidewalk (1985) and General José Artigas (1987).

  • 21 bike-share stations
  • 3 works of public art

Places the City draws by name in this area: SoHo, Little Italy and Hudson Square.

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 971 major felonies at places in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square

  • 1,041 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,866 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, the NYPD recorded another 186 major felonies.

Map of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square: 8 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
1st (most of the area), 5th
Major felonies recorded at places in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 464 major felonies at places in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, against 455 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.