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Nolita, sometimes written as NoLIta and deriving from "Northern Little Italy",<ref name=smaller>Roberts, Sam. "New York’s Little Italy, Littler by the Year" New York Times (February 21, 2011)</ref><ref>Hughes, C.J. "Bigger Condos, North of Littler Italy" New York Times (May 4, 2008)</ref><ref>According to the Italian American Museum on Mulberry Street, it stands for "NOrthern Little ITAly" Template:Cite news</ref> is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Nolita is situated in Lower Manhattan, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west by Lafayette Street.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> It lies east of SoHo, south of NoHo, west of the Lower East Side, and north of Little Italy and Chinatown.<ref>"Neighborhood Profile: Nolita & Little Italy" on the New York magazine website</ref>
History and descriptionEdit
The neighborhood was long regarded as part of Little Italy, but has lost its recognizable Italian character in recent decades because of rapidly rising rents.<ref name=smaller /> The Feast of San Gennaro, dedicated to Saint Januarius ("Pope of Naples"), is held in the neighborhood every year following Labor Day, on Mulberry Street between Houston and Grand Streets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The feast, as recreated on Elizabeth Street between Prince and Houston Streets, was featured in the film The Godfather Part II.
In the second half of the 1990s, the neighborhood saw an influx of yuppies and an explosion of expensive retail boutiques and restaurants and bars.<ref name=":0" /> After unsuccessful tries to pitch it as part of SoHo, real estate promoters and others came up with several different names for consideration for this newly upscale neighborhood. The name that stuck, as documented in an article on May 5, 1996, in the New York Times city section debating various monikers for the newly trendy area, was Nolita, an abbreviation for North of Little Italy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> This name follows the pattern started by SoHo (South of Houston Street) and TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal Street).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The neighborhood includes St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, at the intersection of Mulberry, Mott, and Prince Streets, which opened in 1815 and was rebuilt in 1868 after a fire.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite nycland, p.42</ref> The cornerstone was laid on June 8, 1809. This building served as New York City's Roman Catholic cathedral until the new St. Patrick's Cathedral was opened on Fifth Avenue in Midtown in 1879.<ref>Farley, John Murphy. (1908). History of St. Patrick's Cathedral Society for the propagation of the faith. pp. 127–128, 130, 151.</ref> St. Patrick's Old Cathedral is now a parish church. In 2010, St. Patrick's Old Cathedral was honored and became The Basilica at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.
The Puck Building, a nine-story-high ornate structure built in 1885 on the corner of Houston and Lafayette Streets, originally housed the headquarters of the now-defunct Puck Magazine.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Puck Building New York Architecture</ref>
Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged in Nolita on Mulberry Street and Mott Street.<ref name=LittleAustraliaNYC>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Notable residentsEdit
- David Bowie and his wife, Iman, had a home here.<ref>Iman. Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 9 May 2012.</ref>
- Actor Gabriel Byrne lives here.<ref>Polsky, Sara (April 30, 2010). "Actor Gabriel Byrne Buys in Nolita's 211 Elizabeth". Curbed.</ref>
- Vanessa Carlton's song "Nolita Fairytale" was inspired by her two years in the neighborhood.<ref>Brill, Lauren. "One On One With Vanessa Carlton". WNBA.com (July 11, 2007)</ref>
- Moby lived here.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- John Mayer owns an apartment here, featured in Elle Decor magazine.<ref>Hackett, Kathleen. "At home with John Mayer" Template:Webarchive Elle Decor (ndg)</ref>
- Martin Scorsese was raised here on Elizabeth Street between Prince and Houston, where his Italian grandparents also lived when it was Little Italy.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Actor David Harbour has a loft here.<ref>[1]. Architectural Digest. Published Nov 14, 2019.</ref>
GalleryEdit
- Odd Fellows Hall 165-171 Grand Street.jpg
- Saint Pats Old Cathedral Manh jeh.JPG
- St. Patrick's Convent and Girls' School.jpg
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14th Ward Industrial School, designed by Calvert Vaux
- St. Michael's Russian Catholic Church.jpg
- The Bowery Historic District-20201031-KIA01522.jpg
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