Spring Street (6)

This station brings you to peak SoHo vibes. It’s an aesthetic mecca, bougie, budgeting be damned. Everything around here is dripping in cool.

The quadrant between Lafayette, Broome, Bowery, and Houston is so vibey that I’d recommend snaking through each street in this matrix to soak in the scene. Elizabeth, Mott, and Spring streets are three of my favorites in all of New York City. And I’ll give a shoutout to Mulberry, which blasts you into Little Italy southeast of the station.

For daytime shopping, try The Meadow for interesting culinary gifts like salt varieties and chocolates, Min & Mon for cute handbags, Esqueleto, Mejuri, The M Jewelers, or Ana Luisa for Cool Girl jewelry, Female Form for a spunky outfit (I got a mesh tee with a bunch of cats on it), Fried Rice for baggy-edgy layers. The flagship Glossier off this station offers custom engravings for your products, and The Ordinary*, my favorite skincare brand that won’t break the bank, was trying out a flexible-pay model on some of its products when I visited.

*There are two locations for The Ordinary in SoHo. I’d recommend going to the giant flagship in east SoHo, not the little one in west SoHo.

Obviously I am obsessed with this Min & Mon bag. I look at it just as lovingly as Eduardo does. 

For the vibey nighttime food and drink scene, try Mothers’ Ruin, Little Rascal, Parm, Pasquale Jones, or Ruby’s. People watch on nice weather days with a street table at Cafe Gitane.

It’s giving cool girl vibes

Look, Spring Street (6) is the scene, at least according to an early-30s woman who wants to be immersed in the aesthetic.

God even the ads are chicer out here