Don’t give me some real estate agent’s nonsense about the lower east side. It is the lower east side just as Clinton is Hell’s Kitchen. I don’t even like the Soho designation which is another real estate agent’s invention that makes no sense. Soho in London is called that because people coming up over the hill would cry “Soho!” to alert people. What happened in lower Manhattan? It’s called lower Manhattan because there are no hills.
My family has been in this city since the Civil War and I have no patience with this nonsense. Where are all those cheap rents, btw?
When I lived in the area, I was told that "SoHo" was an abbreviation for "South of Houston" street and "NoHo" meant "North of Houston" street.