SoHo’s empty cast-iron streets were already being filmed as an art subject by 1963

Evidence

Dick Higgin’s two-hour long feature The Flaming City—described as “an anti-semantic love story about a marvelous part of New York City and the people who lived there”—filmed in 1963 and largely devoted to fluxing around, has considerable footage of SoHo’s cast-iron cornices, facades, and empty streets. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1972

Categorization

• XREF: The empty-streets-and-ignorable-art-form detail supports the reader’s conditions-of-density thesis: SoHo was a filmable emptiness before it was a market.