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Art WalkNoHo

North of Houston to Cooper Square

Cast-iron lofts, a free university museum, cross-generational galleries, and shopkeepers who will tell you everything.

Last updated Jul 9, 2026

NoHo has the bones of old New York.

Cobblestone streets, cast-iron facades, and lofts that were once the playground of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The lofts are landmarked now. The light is the same.

The art matches the neighborhood: refined, a little posh, with lineage and grit. NYU's Grey Art Museum anchors the scene. The galleries run wide: '70s abstraction, punk and pop, neo-Romanticism, and work that asks you to slow down.

Then there are the shops, the best of which are somebody's entire personality, lovingly shelved. Rare photobooks, Japanese fashion and homeware, Danish antiques, used vinyl. And some of the city’s best tables are tucked in-between, making this a neighborhood where every detour pays off.

Here's where to find them all.

Art Spaces

1

MuseumNoHo

Grey Art Museum

Come for thoughtful, richly researched exhibitions that transport you across cities, histories, and art movements. Stay for quiet galleries and work that makes you smarter. This is exactly what a university museum should feel like.

18 Cooper Square
2

GalleryNoHo

Eric Firestone Gallery

This gallery stages beautiful shows that make overlooked art histories feel urgent again. Psychedelic mosaics, hard-edge abstraction, gestural figuration, and under-recognized American artists, many from the 70s, thunder back into the spotlight.

40 Great Jones Street
3

GalleryNoHo

PALO Gallery

Art’s romantic past and topical present merge emphatically in art that is at once socially relevant and inextricably tied to art's history.

21 East 3rd Street
4

GalleryNoHo

Amanita

Be drenched in old-world European elegance with art by rarely-seen contemporary Italian artists, shown at the former CBGBs punk bar turned gallery.

313 Bowery
5

GalleryNoHo

The Hole

Named after a legendary downtown club where every subculture collided, The Hole is where contemporary art gets weird. Glossy, hyper-online, and funny without ever losing their edge, shows here are some of the most visually addictive in the city.

312 Bowery
6

GalleryNoHo

PALO Gallery

Art’s romantic past and topical present merge emphatically in art that is at once socially relevant and inextricably tied to art's history.

21 East 3rd Street
7

Alternative SpaceNoHo

Atelier Jolie

As in Angelina. Basquiat’s former studio has been reanimated by the superstar actress into an impeccably designed living room/café concept and gallery.

57 Great Jones Street

Places to Pause

BookstoreNoHo

Climax Books

Shop highly curated books at this Berlin-born store. Think hard-to-find ephemera, erotica, VHS tapes, and books on art, photography and counterculture.

56 East 4th Street

Clothing StoreNoHo

Dear: Rivington+

Wander two stories where Japanese designers nestle against vintage treasures, all set off by spare, whitewashed walls.

37 Great Jones Street

RestaurantNoHo

Il Buco

A downtown staple that’s here to stay. Come for the Mediterranean dishes, great wine, and rustic setting, and stay for the occasional sighting of a local icon.

47 Bond Street
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Art WalkNoHo

North of Houston to Cooper Square

Cast-iron lofts, a free university museum, cross-generational galleries, and shopkeepers who will tell you everything.
Character walking

7 STOPS | 1.5 HOURS

Last updated Jul 9, 2026

NoHo has the bones of old New York.

Cobblestone streets, cast-iron facades, and lofts that were once the playground of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The lofts are landmarked now. The light is the same.

The art matches the neighborhood: refined, a little posh, with lineage and grit. NYU's Grey Art Museum anchors the scene. The galleries run wide: '70s abstraction, punk and pop, neo-Romanticism, and work that asks you to slow down.

Then there are the shops, the best of which are somebody's entire personality, lovingly shelved. Rare photobooks, Japanese fashion and homeware, Danish antiques, used vinyl. And some of the city’s best tables are tucked in-between, making this a neighborhood where every detour pays off.

Here's where to find them all.

Art Spaces

1

MuseumNoHo

Grey Art Museum

Come for thoughtful, richly researched exhibitions that transport you across cities, histories, and art movements. Stay for quiet galleries and work that makes you smarter. This is exactly what a university museum should feel like.

18 Cooper Square
2

GalleryNoHo

Eric Firestone Gallery

This gallery stages beautiful shows that make overlooked art histories feel urgent again. Psychedelic mosaics, hard-edge abstraction, gestural figuration, and under-recognized American artists, many from the 70s, thunder back into the spotlight.

40 Great Jones Street
3

GalleryNoHo

PALO Gallery

Art’s romantic past and topical present merge emphatically in art that is at once socially relevant and inextricably tied to art's history.

21 East 3rd Street
4

GalleryNoHo

Amanita

Be drenched in old-world European elegance with art by rarely-seen contemporary Italian artists, shown at the former CBGBs punk bar turned gallery.

313 Bowery
5

GalleryNoHo

The Hole

Named after a legendary downtown club where every subculture collided, The Hole is where contemporary art gets weird. Glossy, hyper-online, and funny without ever losing their edge, shows here are some of the most visually addictive in the city.

312 Bowery
6

GalleryNoHo

PALO Gallery

Art’s romantic past and topical present merge emphatically in art that is at once socially relevant and inextricably tied to art's history.

21 East 3rd Street
7

Alternative SpaceNoHo

Atelier Jolie

As in Angelina. Basquiat’s former studio has been reanimated by the superstar actress into an impeccably designed living room/café concept and gallery.

57 Great Jones Street

Places to Pause

BookstoreNoHo

Climax Books

Shop highly curated books at this Berlin-born store. Think hard-to-find ephemera, erotica, VHS tapes, and books on art, photography and counterculture.

56 East 4th Street

Clothing StoreNoHo

Dear: Rivington+

Wander two stories where Japanese designers nestle against vintage treasures, all set off by spare, whitewashed walls.

37 Great Jones Street

RestaurantNoHo

Il Buco

A downtown staple that’s here to stay. Come for the Mediterranean dishes, great wine, and rustic setting, and stay for the occasional sighting of a local icon.

47 Bond Street

Home GoodsNoHo

John Derian Drygoods & Furniture

Pick up a signature paperweight or canvas cushion at the studio-turned-store of this iconic NYC interior designer, known for his love of decoupage.

6 E 2nd Street

BookstoreNoHo

Dashwood Books

Descend a staircase off cobbled Bond Street into pristine photography books, rare titles, and things that went out of print long ago.

33 Bond Street

Record StoreLower East Side

Ergot Records

Good people selling good music. That's what makes this indie record store specializing in the edges of techno, ambient, and IDM one of the best in the city.

32 East 2nd Street

Home GoodsLower East Side

Salter House

This serene and sustainable housewares and clothing store is all breezy white cottons and flowy tops and dresses that would be as comfortable in a sweet-smelling meadow as they are in Manhattan.

34 East 2nd Street
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