Over at Isabel, meanwhile, in the ultra-cool Soho district, patrons lounge in oyster-shaped booths backed by floor-to-ceiling mirrors.

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Litsa Grigoropoulos, a sales assistant at Sephora's smaller downtown shop in Manhattan's Soho district, used to work at Macy's (part of Federated Department Stores).

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Cezayir, tucked into a cul- de-sac within the Soho-esque antiques shopping district Cukurcuma, is a 19th-century former school building housing several environments--a garden, an informal lounge, a formal dining room with teal walls and an ornate chandelier.

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And the area replaced by Washington Square Village (and the similar Silver Towers development to the south), was a light industrial district, similar to SoHo (further to the south) and NoHo (further to the east).

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Soho House Berlin is housed inside a former 1928 department store in the Mitte District.

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