I think New Yorkers will love this comment !!! :-)

DH and I watched a GREAT movie called " Five Flights Up" (Netflix).
I LOVE movies about New York (I visited once) because I'm fascinated by it!
When I was in my twenties, I wanted to live in one of those cool, industrial warehouse/
loft apartments !!!!! 

By the by, aside from the location of this movie, it's succch
a GREAT story, I highly recommend it !!!!!!  

Trailer 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreX3h3QYHY


**Don't worry!  No spoilers!! **  

It's about a couple, played perfectly by Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton, (and their SWEET doggie!)  who've been living in Brooklyn 40 years and thinking of moving to Manhattan.  

The COMMENT I mentioned in my title that I think New Yorkers will love is a scene
with Cathy Bates, who's a lawyer in an old, sad-looking building, (it's in the early 1970's)  who's upset because she has to leave her office and find a new location, because they're about to start construction and change things.  Her line is (I'm paraphrasing) "WHO'S  EVER  HEARD OF  SOHO?" (or she might have said something about SOHO being a dumb name for a new neighborhood).




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That made me curious, so I did some googling: 
(from USA Today) 


SoHo loft spaces were attractive to artists because of their size, the light that came through the large, high windows and, of course, their affordability. Loft spaces were either cheap or free, at least to begin with.  (*my note:  Those huge windows and the COOL  way I've seen these apartments decorated in movies and TV shows is why I wanted to live in one when I was young!)


This movement may have been illegal, but it also gave character and panache to an area that needed renewed vigor. The city left the artists alone with a wink and a nod, and in 1971 finally acted to legalize artists' use of the spaces. The lofts were deemed "joint living and work quarters" (JLWQ). Some of the old tenants stayed and others moved in. By the early 1970s, there were as many as 2,000 working artists living in SoHo.



Meanwhile, SoHo was becoming more and more chic. Well-known creative talents moved in, including Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, Twyla Tharp, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Bowie.* Inevitably, rents rose along with the neighborhood's prestige. Some long-time tenants were able to cling to rent-controlled spaces, but no new such spaces were created. By the turn of the millennium, rent-control was a vanishing concept; it applied solely to renters who'd had the same space since 1971 or who had passed it on to a family member.


(*wow, interesting!  I had no idea David Bowie ever lived there!)