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Hudson Square
Lands on the Map
With the former
Printing District
now officially
designated as a
BID, the neighbor-
hood’s boosters
work at carving
out an identity
The Hudson Square area’s former life as the Printing District means buildings with floorplates, ideal for the creative and
media companies that are relocating there. Trinity Real Estate’s 345 Hudson St. secured a 400,000-square-foot tenant in
the form of MTV Networks in 2007.
Large utilitarian buildings
with big open floor plans
line many of the streets in
the area once called the Printing
District, now known as Hudson
Square. The buildings, formerly
home to industrial clients, primarily printing presses that located
there in the 1930s, are now home to
a variety of companies, many from
the worlds of media, nonprofit and
even catering. Situated
By Cody Lyon
right next
to three of
the world’s most trendy, creative
and “cool” neighborhoods—
Soho, Greenwich Village and
Tribeca—Hudson Square has
had to work extra hard at carving
out its own identity and not simply adopt neighboring monikers.
For example, world famous furniture designer Todd Hase, who
maintains his company’s gallery-
